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Anyone find this? I'm old so don't
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Students are currently arriving at the university without any basic understanding of file hierarchies (folders containing folders and files). And they have no clue what a zip file is. Nor do they know what to do with it.
I mean, they're close to illiterate, and can't focus on reading anything longer than two paragraphs, according to what I've read on /r/teachers. Phones don't have apparent file management, so they don't know about it.
Idiocracy indeed.
It took me years to get over the fact that I can't simply copy and paste stuff from folder to folder anymore. Most phones these days won't even let you do it, and some computers won't either.
Everything wants you to sync everything instead, and gives you these awful file managers like the photo apps that make you five different stupid albums that you didn't ask for and can't turn off, but makes you have to search around to find the basic albums that just hold your photos...
Apple and Google are the worst, but even Microsoft tries to be more like them. I just don't use a computer anymore, haven't in years. When I do again, I'm definitely switching to Linux...
I used to be able to just say "please download the materials from [learning platform] and organize them so you can work with them before class" and that would be fine. Nowadays I have to give step-by-step instructions that involve things like "create a folder", "navigate to your download folder" and "cut (ctrl-x) the files and paste (ctrl-v) them into the new folder" unless I want half the students to get lost.
Some don't even have a concept of downloading a file. They're so used to streaming and mobile UIs that they seem to think that a downloaded file is simply gone once you close it (and needs to be re-downloaded).
God, that's depressing
Time to bring back the manuals from the 80s when students were seeing computers for the first time in university.
80s... pshaw. Try the 60s. Or just go back all the way to Babbage. If you don't know who that is, then look it up.
I looked up Baggage, I don't think it would make a difference.
Nice troll. ;)
Or any concept of the physical realities of what a computer actually is.
Scary