One trend I don't like very much (in my very personal experience[0]), is that over the past few years I've seen a trend with not-quite-so-young children (ages 8

One trend I don't like very much (in my very personal experience[0]), is that over the past few years I've seen a trend with not-quite-so-young children (ages 8-12) having more trouble navigating a basic desktop environment like Windows 7. For an 8 or 9 year-old, that is fine. And navigating a file/folder system can be quite an adventure. But some of the older ones (10-12) lately are having trouble with finding the proper X (close) button when there's multiple windows (and sub-windows) on the screen. Or what minimizing does (the window is gone but it's not really gone? how will you figure out the restore button?). Definitely a tricky one is what the taskbar is for (most tablets / phones don't have that). They do love it when I teach them "special tricks" like copy-paste with shortcuts, moving by word with ctrl-arrow. What NumLock does. And for some reason they all know "backspace", but do not discover the "delete" key. One kid, upon explaining it's like backspace but deletes the other way: "oh my god, this is so cool I'm going to use this EVERYWHERE!!!" (and I smiled and thought, yes, DELETE ALL THE THIGNS) :-) [0] I teach children at a volunteer's centre to do interesting/creative/technical/cool stuff with computers--anything that gets them enthusiastic that isn't YouTube or Minecraft--yes yes Minecraft is a very creative environment in a sense, but it's quite easy for them to revert to "consuming" all day long instead of "building/crafting". However I'm also aware that this is my own lack of knowledge, meaning I can't properly stimulate them to take on creative challenges. Plus they can't play (properly) without their own paid account (right?), making it a bit unfair towards kids whose parents can't or won't buy them an account (the volunteer centre itself aims to be almost-absurdly cheap, €20/year, attracting children from all strata of society).