Those taught in the style of early centuries proper learning, the 3 Rs, is there a sense that 21st century learners are at a disadvantage?

Reading, Riting, Rithemitic were the core substance for education long, long before I was born. But I was taught under that tutelage. It has given me a strong command of language, script, and numbers. I can read whole lines for understanding without looking up each word, I can cursive, print, and draw, I can do basic arithemitic in my head. But, the new learners have computers doing it all. Many current generation learners do not know how to step back and problem solve something as basic as finding a different word to describe a concept. It took me fifteen minutes to fashion this question so I could get the question mark applied. I had to change phrases and words around to meet the space requirement. Our new learners are not getting strong basic concepts to build on.