“Kids who grew up on smartphones do not know how to do anything on a computer”

Re:“Kids who grew up on smartphones do not know how to do an... by JohnWhigham on Thursday October 07, 2021 @01:40PM (#28789677)

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?

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Re:“Kids who grew up on smartphones do not know how to do an... by aidenn0 on Thursday October 07, 2021 @01:56PM (#28789896)

I have a kid in HS and everything is google docs now. She does not know what a file or a directory is.

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Re:“Kids who grew up on smartphones do not know how to do an... by nikau on Saturday October 09, 2021 @06:49AM (#28808695)

From 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.

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Re:“Kids who grew up on smartphones do not know how to do an... by rchaud on Thursday October 07, 2021 @03:14PM (#28790864)

When 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.

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Re:“Kids who grew up on smartphones do not know how to do an... by chrismcb on Thursday October 07, 2021 @05:37PM (#28792441)

Why 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

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Re:“Kids who grew up on smartphones do not know how to do an... by aidenn0 on Friday October 08, 2021 @03:31PM (#28803172)

Usually 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.

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Re:“Kids who grew up on smartphones do not know how to do an... by asdff on Thursday October 07, 2021 @01:45PM (#28789737)

Well, except if you took auto shop class during high school :)

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