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Despite tech-savvy reputation, Gen Z falls behind in keyboard typing skills (www.techspot.com)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

The difference is sort of like the difference between a qualified ESL teacher and a native English speaker [...]

This example is perfect - native teachers (regardless of the language being taught) are often clueless on which parts of their languages are hard to master, because they simply take it for granted. Just like zoomers with tech - they take for granted that there's some "app", that you download it, without any further thought on where it's stored or how it's programmed or anything like that.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Another example I heard recently was in relation to cloud storage. Some younger people don't understand what "stored in the cloud" actually means, nor do they understand the importance of physical backups. They have just grown up in this world where you can upload something with the promise that it will be there forever, without really thinking about where that file is actually being stored or what that could mean for its future. For my generation - millennials - we went through all these different phases of portable physical storage. We had our floppy disk, then we had our CD, then we had our USB drives, then we had our portable hard drives and now we have cloud storage. There was this evolution to the technology that we were exposed to that allows us to zoom out a bit and see cloud storage as connected to all these other forms of portable storage and, therefore, not inherently infallible or eternal.