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I worry technology is so easy today's kids are less tech-savvy than their parents, which is a terrifying concept to me.
by causi 5y ago
I worry technology is so easy today's kids are less tech-savvy than their parents, which is a terrifying concept to me.
- raverbashing 5y agoReally. This worries me as well We are seeing young people that can't work around Word/Excel (sure, or their cloud equivalent) to do basic tasks like creating a table or basic formatting
- causi 5y agoWhen I was in high school we traded files amongst ourselves using burned CDs and flash drives. My nieces and nephews don't understand what a file format is.
- netizen-936824 5y agoThank goodness Microsoft hides file extensions by default. We wouldn't want these children learning! Major /s
- wizzwizz4 5y agoToday's technology isn't easier: it's just more restricted. The things you can do are pre-programmed and individually specified, rather than emergent from the design of the system, which means there's much less common logic to it.
- netizen-936824 5y agoI think the parent is conflating easiness with lack of complexity. Lack of complexity does make doing things less confusing if you have less options to choose from
- marcosdumay 5y agoI don't worry much. I'd prefer if they knew more, but somehow kids were always able to learn the sciences or engineering. Just because they don't learn on their own, it doesn't mean they'll never know it.
- toast0 5y agoI think it's about the same amount of kids are tech savvy now as when I was a kid. Which is also scary, of course, but I don't think it's really less. It's just that non savvy kids are still immersed in tech; when I was growing up, kids could get through k-12 only touching a computer twice a year, if that's what worked for them/their families.