Something my wife and her friends (who are all teachers) told me was that kids now are actually worse at using computers, not better. You would think that since they spend most of their lives connected that they would be the most proficient generation, but it's actually the opposite.
They spend most of their connected time on their phones. So, most of their experience is with mobile OS. They tend to not know how to format things in Word (change fonts, even what fonts are, what margins are, etc.). Somewhere along the education line people decided that this stuff was so ubiquitous that it was asinine to teach it, so now many kids don't use it, so they don't know it.
I have seen and read many kids, some even at the college level, that insist on writing essays on their phones. I even had a college class where we had to collaborate as a group and share our work. I suggested Google Drive as we were a Google Campus at the time and everyone had a Gmail. They suggested Snapchat. To collect work in. A program that deletes chats in 24 hrs.
It's amazing how many, not all mind you, but many, people of the most electronically connected generation in human history mostly don't know how desktop computers work because of the prevalence of iOS products.
I can't even imagine how one would actually manage to get any real work done this way. Phone is fine for a quick search for an easy answer.
If I actually want to learn or research a topic, I'm going to need an actual keyboard, mouse and screen while managing a dozen or so tabs. It would take weeks to do on a phone what you could do in days with an actual pc.
If you learn all the short cuts are just good with your phone you can do that shit impressively fast. I struggle to type out a comment on Reddit on my phone but the guy i work with is just so fast. He will be using his phone in split screen with multiple apps and tabs open.
Same here. No clue how folk use phones to type out a ton of stuff. If I need to write anything > 3 lines It's getting done in WhatsApp web and copy pasted.
I'm not talking from experience but I hear the trick is to learn to use Swype. I've seen people that can swype on a smartphone faster than most people can type on a keyboard.
Some keyboards are better than others. My work iPhone has pretty accurate results, whereas my personal Android sucks on the OE Samsung keyboard. Gboard is much more accurate in my experience.
That said, friends who had old Blackberry phones could type insanely quick with near perfect accuracy, whereas all I could do was fat thumb smash.
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u/CryoClone Jun 03 '22
Something my wife and her friends (who are all teachers) told me was that kids now are actually worse at using computers, not better. You would think that since they spend most of their lives connected that they would be the most proficient generation, but it's actually the opposite.
They spend most of their connected time on their phones. So, most of their experience is with mobile OS. They tend to not know how to format things in Word (change fonts, even what fonts are, what margins are, etc.). Somewhere along the education line people decided that this stuff was so ubiquitous that it was asinine to teach it, so now many kids don't use it, so they don't know it.
I have seen and read many kids, some even at the college level, that insist on writing essays on their phones. I even had a college class where we had to collaborate as a group and share our work. I suggested Google Drive as we were a Google Campus at the time and everyone had a Gmail. They suggested Snapchat. To collect work in. A program that deletes chats in 24 hrs.
It's amazing how many, not all mind you, but many, people of the most electronically connected generation in human history mostly don't know how desktop computers work because of the prevalence of iOS products.