Yesterday. Me to three students: "Okay, you have your PC. Here is a USB key, please put your files in it."
I leave them be to attend to other students and find them three minutes later fumbling around, all with their file open on their PC and none in the USB key.
Me: "okay, give me this." Three seconds later, the three files are in the USB key and the students look at me as if I was a great wizard.
This is today's kids computer literacy for you.
@David
They just swipe on a phone or tablet now.
@salyavin The sad part is that they're not to be blamed. Silicon Valley is (and Apple in particular)
@cb_desu No, they literally have no idea how to use a PC.
Their first PC was when they arrived at the uni, and they have never learned how to use them. It's not the first time I see it (basically, every time they use one in class).
For example, in this case, they had no idea how to put a file in a USB key. Because they don't know what a folder is, they probably don't know what a file is, their files are all saved on OneDrive, and so on.
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Another example: they have no idea what a URL is. I have seen some kids going to google and search domainname.com in the search field of google.
And now, AI is pretty much all they use.
Once again, I don't blame them. I blame Apple on one hand, and a lack of technological education (and techno-feudalism that's even worse in Japan than elsewhere) on the other hand.
@David OMG. I never realzied it got that bad. None of the kids I know are that bad thankfully but i do see the shift in how people interact with computers and technology.
