As I begin this Commentary, I am reminded of the time when I began my social work education with paper and pen, diligently purchasing text books, and relying on index cards in the library, and the odd grappling with microfiche. There were no such things as computers or digital technology, no web-based platforms, no USBs, software, apps, or Bluetooth headsets. There were no emails to navigate, no skype or virtual classrooms, and no social media distractions. Social work was taught face-to-face in lectures and tutorials and we took copious notes as there were no recordings to rely on later. Books and journals were hard copy only, which led to such subversive acts as the hiding of key social work texts in the science or law sections of the library for later guilty retrieval. The journals that had articles set for assignments often had mysteriously missing pages, and it was highly unlikely that anything copied would be detected as there were no forms of digital text matching