Some related threads from a few weeks ago about rising computer illiteracy among kids: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21241535 https://news.ycombinator.c

Some related threads from a few weeks ago about rising computer illiteracy among kids: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21241535 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21241535 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21237540 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21237540 I really have noticed that elderly people who have no computer experience have a better grasp of computing concepts than most kids. They understand physical media stores sounds and pictures, so it easy to explain that pictures and music lives on their sd card, like a phonograph or roll of film, except much more. They understand that you need an internet connection to communicate, like how you need your phone hooked up to make phone calls, since they have all had to deal with the phone company to get their phone working. And it is really simple to explain that a wifi router is just extending the internet into your living room. They understand sending an email and attaching a picture to it (use the paper clip and pick the picture). I was even able to explain the file system to someone, by saying that instead of just printing out his letters, he can store them inside a "folder", and print them out later as many times as he wants. These concepts seem utterly lost on so many kids. They will send you a series of screenshots of a website instead of just sending the url. They are constantly losing data. They can not tell you where their data "lives"; whether it is in their iCloud or their phone or whatever. It's not that horrible, but I am disappointed because I honestly thought that by now we would all be more computer literate. Isn't this what schools are supposed to teach?