Good design is good design, regardless of how it is created. You could hand sketch everything for all I care, and glue macaroni bits on it. If it was designed with the basic principles of design in mind, it'll stand up.

That said, the computer isn't creating bad designers necessarily, just impatient ones.We have an unimagineable selection of tools before us with the computer, but as good designers we need to know when to use a tool to arrive at our design objectives, and when to never use all of them together at the same time.

If people are losing respect for photography and digital art (which I believe as well), take a look at the huge stock houses dishing this stuff up like it's air, and ask yourself if that hasn't had a more negative influence than the onslaught of the digital age. Not only do they cheapen the arts, they give no respect or credit to the artist and designer who created their product in the first place.

I think building a respect for typography is difficult. My only solution (after not thinking about this for very long) is to appeal to the students want to be different. "You are designers, and what sets you apart from all the other yahoos is this knowledge." By stroking their egos you should at least perk their interest, hopefully long enough to get them hooked!

My first year of College, we never touched a computer.