Is it time to change my mind on technology class?

In my role as Technology Coordinator at a k-8 school I have been pretty adamant about one topic.

For the last 10 years I have insisted that we not have a technology curriculum and that we not have separate technology classes. I believed that all teaching of technology should be integrated within the regular classroom.

I believed this for a number of reasons:

• Any technology skill we taught in elementary school would be entirely out of date by the time a student would actually need it. 
• Teaching a skill in isolation, without context, is a poor way of teaching. Student retention was low.
• Teaching how to use any specific piece of software was a bad idea as the software would be different within a couple of years.
• It was better to teach a skill at the moment it was needed. For example: If you were about to have students complete their final draft of an essay or creative writing piece that was when you would teach word processing skills not two years prior.

I've been reading and watching and listening to what other schools have been doing lately and I wonder if my position is now wrong. 

Here are the things that have made me question my stance on this topic:

• Digital Citizenship has become very important at the k-8 level. Students at my school are showing up with phones and data plans by grade 5. iPods are everywhere and we've gone 1-1 in grades 7 and 8. Our students need these skills now.
• Coding. Is fluency or at least familiarity with coding becoming more important?
• Lagging teacher skills. Is the average classroom teacher struggling to keep up with the rapidly changing technological landscape and therefore is there an increasing need for a specialist teacher to teach these skills?

I don't quite know the answer. I would love to hear your thoughts and ideas on the topic.