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Re:“Kids who grew up on smartphones do not know how to do an... by aYsY4dDQ2NrcNzA on Thursday October 07, 2021 @01:49PM (#28789792)
Anecdotal: I went back to college for night school, and the classmates in my math course were all around 20 years old. I made a habit of sitting in the front row and taking photos of the whiteboard during each class, which I used to supplement my notes.

Leading up to the final exam, I brought my laptop to class and burned all of those photos onto CD-Rs (for free) for anyone who wanted one.

Anyway, when the students around me noticed that I was using the keyboard to drive this process instead of dragging files around, they were utterly amazed.

Re:“Kids who grew up on smartphones do not know how to do an... by ALittleLight on Thursday October 07, 2021 @01:53PM (#28789840)
I expected they would've been amazed at CD-Rs. Even back when I was in college the practice was to pass a USB stick around the class with notes, PDF of textbook, etc.
Re:“Kids who grew up on smartphones do not know how to do an... by aYsY4dDQ2NrcNzA on Thursday October 07, 2021 @01:57PM (#28789906)
Coincidentally I was working at an antivirus company at the time, so if anyone had suggested such a communal USB drive I would definitely have opted out.
Re:“Kids who grew up on smartphones do not know how to do an... by timbit42 on Friday October 08, 2021 @02:27PM (#28802455)
This is why I use USB SDCard readers instead. I can write protect the SDCard.
Re:“Kids who grew up on smartphones do not know how to do an... by wil421 on Thursday October 07, 2021 @02:39PM (#28790455)
I was in college 8+ years ago and we would use GroupMe. I’ve heard people still use it or what’s app. No need to share any type of media.
Re:“Kids who grew up on smartphones do not know how to do an... by asdff on Thursday October 07, 2021 @02:25PM (#28790262)
Who even owns a disk drive anymore