I would counter don't avoid technology for the sake of conformity to past practice. Teachers who get too caught up in content falling off the tongue might miss the point of teaching. I still incorporate portions of recall for students in the science classroom as a matter of literacy - understanding the abbreviations for elements of the periodic table, for example. However, that can be accomplished in a lot of ways that don't look like the traditional written test. Many of them incorporate games based in technology. Part of the rationale for understanding them is that scientists were the first to use chat speak to shorten their writing and so that everyone knew the same symbols - even when they used several languages. We actually discuss what it is like not to know the abbreviations in chat speak, and how it puts people outside the group. This provides an opportune moment to invite them to science as a language and community that includes its own abbreviations and norms. It would be sad to fail to include our next brilliant minds in learning because we isolate them from us due to our inability to bridge the gaps.
