Do We Need to Teach Conversational Skills?

Subtitle, "Students' reliance on screens for communication is detracting - and distracting - from their engagement in real-time talk." is the focus of this article.  That concept is important, I believe for many students in many populations depending on devices to communicate.  This article is excellent and should be read by most teachers.  My question, however, given the nature of our Title I population living in poverty is, "Do our students have personal communication devices to use?  This is a balancing act we teachers need to take - teach digital communication skills, but not forgetting conversation.  Both are equally important in the real world.  How would you conduct a job interview without good conversational skills? Would you get that job? 

My Students Don't Know How to Have a Conversation. Paulo Barnwell. 4.22.14.  The Atlantic-Education
http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2014/04/my-students-dont-know-how-to-have-a-conversation/360993/