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 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).
Time to bring back the manuals from the 80s when students were seeing computers for the first time in university.
Scary
My IT experience as Gen-X.
Boomers: Look to me because somehow they have avoided learning anything IT related in the last thirty+ years.
Millennials: Look to me because I have more experience and a wider breadth of knowledge. Thumbs up for Millenials.
Gen-Z: About as confused as Boomers but excusable since they just started. Surprising lack of basics in some. Those that do know enough, have less knowledge and experience than Millenials and way way less than us gray beards. So they rarely get to solve problems, thus they rarely get to grow and learn.
Depends, in some technical fields it's starting to flip because kids don't need to learn computer skills as much when they just use iPhones and tablets where everything "just works".
Yeah. My friend from high school works in high school. Among others he teaches IT. Compared to today's kids we were hackers. We knew how to crack a game, install a driver, replace some hardware. Today's kids don't know how to download a file.
I went to school with someone who didnt like deadlines, so she would do the following:
She'd do the work at her own pace in the mean time, and when she got asked for another copy because it was corrupted, shed hand it up. She graduated with me, and I dont know what she does now but I hope she's in infosec.
Our IT teacher knew if we did something late because he would look at when the file was last edited. We had a great IT teacher that also wanted to teach us how to think instead of just teaching basic word and excell.
I work in IT and can guarantee this person generates a disproportionate amount of tickets.
If I need someone to wind up a SpeakNSpell or onboard an iPhone for someone, I'll call you.
My IT experience as a "Generation Jones" Boomer.
Older Boomers: Ugh. Please.. let me sort it and you just go back to watching TV.
Gen-X: Ah, you got that? Fantastic!
Millennials: You're going to need something better than a phone to set that network up with. We have to do some port forwarding on the new modem, so the camera system can connect, so at minimum we need the office laptop. Can you squeeze under the cabinet and pull those ethernet lines I snaked up from the basement? I think they're just inside the bottom of the pocket..
Gen-Z: That is awesome that you want to help! Let me show you a few neat tricks. I've got some ancient laptops you can dabble with.. they're bang-up for running torrents, I know you are tight for cash and streaming costs and arm and a leg now. Lemme show you how to save some money.
It needs a young backup.
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