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> using iPads and Chromebooks is teaching them lies that come from user-hostile pseudoabstractions Absolutely. Most 12 year old kids don't know about file siz
by ux-app 10y ago
> using iPads and Chromebooks is teaching them lies that come from user-hostile pseudoabstractions
Absolutely. Most 12 year old kids don't know about file size units. Relative file sizes, converting between units etc. There's so much incidental learning that occurs too. The other day i was discussing file sizes with a student and we observed that there was a difference between a file's reported size vs size on disk. This led to a great little segue about physical disk structure, tracks, sectors and clusters. The boy was fascinated with some lower level detail. All that learning would have been lost if we were using a gimped cloud based FS.
- criddell 10y ago> This led to a great little segue about physical disk structure, tracks, sectors and clusters. These days, those are abstractions as well. That's basically the API that the mass storage controller presents to the OS. I'm not sure you could explain a hard drive to a lay person anymore. Most of the time, I'm kind of surprised that they work at all.