Do you think millennials who grew up with the early Internet and home computers will be as bad with future technology as boomers are with current technology?
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My wife and I started talking about this after she had to help an old lady at the DMV figure out how to use her iPhone to scan a QR code. We're in our early 40s.
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I agree with people here saying that younger people are just not very computer literate anymore. I bought my daughter a starter desktop computer so she would get more computer literate, but it sits on a desk while she uses her iPad. The schools have Chromebooks, which is the push-here-dummy of operating systems, especially when the school restricts it. Apps on phones and tablets just work. There's no learning curve.
Unless they're specifically interested in computers, they don't need to be computer literate anymore.
That said, I think future technology will reflect this. They won't need to be for most jobs.
All you have to do to get kids interested in computers is to get the games they want to play on the computer. They will be motivated to learn how to use it so they can play their games.
Worked for me in the 90s and my kid today.
All you have to do to get a game to play is click to download it and click to play it these days.
A lot of children are of the type "a smart horse only jumps as high as it needs".
For example, when they have a calculator, they won't ever use their head to calculate anymore. The most simple additions etc, will go to the calculator. You can talk till you are gray and old how important basic calculation skills are. Instead, you need to take away / restrict the calculator.
The same goes for computers and other stuff. Create some artificial hurdles and they will learn.
Teach them about the world of piracy and they will become faster tech literate. Nudge them closer to it but don't push them to illegal areas.
They do need to be computer literate if they're going to get any sort of office job, even moreso now with remote work
Give her a surgerical operating system like Linux, not Windows, certainly not something Apple based
Why? She doesn't care. It doesn't interest her.
Ah, okay. I didn't read that part. Maybe it will interest her later on because of Linux? Idk, do as you like