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Not exactly analogous though. They didn't need to know how to fix their cars to get through high school assignments. How the hell did kids turn in essays and wh
by JohnWhigham 5y ago
Not exactly analogous though. They didn't need to know how to fix their cars to get through high school assignments. How the hell did kids turn in essays and whatnot? I doubt they were printing them. Or was literally everything done in Google Docs?
- asdff 5y agoWell, except if you took auto shop class during high school :)
- aidenn0 5y agoI have a kid in HS and everything is google docs now. She does not know what a file or a directory is.
- rchaud 5y agoWhen Chromebooks came out, Google made schools a major target for those devices. Looks like it worked. And meanwhile, the 'directory structure' of Google docs remains one of the worst I've seen. Haven't opened a document in 6 months? Good luck finding it without using the search bar.
- chrismcb 5y agoWhy not? A doc is a file, and GDrive still has directories, or folders. Not everything is a doc, there are sheets, pdfs, pics, among others
- aidenn0 5y agoUsually when turning in it's either a document already created in google clasroom, so you just click a button and it turns in, or it's found via the list of "recently opened documents." I don't think she knows the difference between those document types other than she can type into one but not the others. A PDF and a read-only google text document are essentially the same thing as far as she is concerned.
- nikau 5y agoFrom my experience most non-IT workers were the same pre cloud. They just do things by rote and save everything to a single folder or their desktop - its why a lot of office workers hate change to new application or operating system versions, they don't understand how it works they have just memorized a bunch of steps to follow to get a task done.