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@Brett_E_Carlock @SwiftOnSecurity I feel for you. I cannot comprehend how it must be explaining what a file is, what file types are. There seems to be so much knowledge yet not enough education. I wonder how computer skills are taught in schools now. My schooling was the late 90s, a very different time. I wonder if they are taught filesystems, folders, files, types, permissions, what being ‘connected to the Internet’ actually means. 2 comments
@Brett_E_Carlock @SwiftOnSecurity I agree -in my (limited) experience, computer education in schools is tactical & tool oriented. That doesn’t build foundational knowledge of what is now pervasive in our society. I blame non-file-oriented apps less than our educators. File-less interfaces are just one branch, if dominant today, of interacting with information. There will be others - the web is one, chat like with GPT is one, AR/VR will be another. |
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@rahulgaitonde @SwiftOnSecurity At least for the cohorts of students I taught, they were not more than passingly aware of any of the above, except internet.
They were all bright kids, so they caught on, but there's a lot of tacit knowledge you acquire from years and years of managing files, data, and the operating system itself that is lost when you have generations of folks coming up that are not exposed to any of that.
It needs to be taught, and it isn't the kids' fault.