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Which grade is this? That's quite a shock if students don't know about urls. Can someone confirm if this is a secluded case or this is what most people end up
by thrwaway69 7y ago
Which grade is this?
That's quite a shock if students don't know about urls. Can someone confirm if this is a secluded case or this is what most people end up with now a days.
I don't find this unbelievable but even here, I would expect 40% people to know about urls and 5% or so know about the technical details surrounding it.
- kennyadam 7y agoThis is all throughout the school, so ages 11 - 18. If you haven't interacted with kids who don't have any tech-fluent influences in their life, you would be shocked at how much isn't understood. Just mobile phones and apps for the 'internet' has meant that it's so easy to access what you need (and also so limiting in what you can access) that most kids just haven't got a clue how the internet actually works. I suppose most of the time they don't NEED to know, but I think it's a bit problematic that unless something has an app, they probably aren't going to know it exists. Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, TikTok, etc. is the entirety of what they access on the internet. There are, of course, exceptions to this, but the majority are absolutely clueless. Ironic when everyone is expecting them to be so tech savvy because they've grown up around it. Problem is, it's too abstracted and too corporate.
- thirdsun 7y agoI‘m not surprised at all. I remember countless discussions on Hacker News about the disappearance of the file system and how younger generations simply don‘t understand the concepts of files, folders and their hierarchy. I’d put URLs in the very same category of slowly fading and disappearing concepts, which is unfortunate and worrying in my opinion.