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I think schools more and more will have to focus on teaching kids how to play and live without technology. These schools already exist of course, but I won't b

by magpi3 5y ago

I think schools more and more will have to focus on teaching kids how to play and live without technology. These schools already exist of course, but I won't be surprised if someday they become more mainstream. Kids don't need to learn how to use computers anymore. They need to learn how to function without them.

sam0x17 5y ago
That said, kids also don't know how to use computers anymore. Kids growing up right now, many of them don't know how to operate a desktop computer and some of them may never touch anything that isn't a walled garden mobile device / tablet. For example, pretty much all millennials understand the difference between software running locally on their device and the "backend" components running on a server somewhere (and that something could be completely client-side without a server). Zoomers have a hard time understanding this distinction and ask questions like "how is this program opening without internet?" (I would know, I mentor 100s of them as a coding bootcamp mentor).