#i once was firmly a millennial now some goofballs are calling me zillennial fuck you shut up

[agentemo]

re the Youths(tm) not knowing computers

I'm a tech teacher (I guess; it's complicated but the point is I deal with students and computers) and while my teenagers seem pretty adept -- I can't recall any moments of inefficiency with tech that particularly stood out -- the pre-teens and especially younger kids seem very confused by or unwilling to try things that feel quite basic to me.

Ages 6-8 don't know how to use keyboards. I find myself wondering why I'm paid to teach them how to code when I could be teaching them how to type and absolutely should be. When I was their age, my computer lab had those colorful iMacs and we played computer games that taught us to type. Keyboards are so foreign to these kids and the touchscreen monitors in the computer labs are my sworn enemy because sometimes you need to use a mouse and they are so unfamiliar.

Ages 9-11 don't know how to go to websites. It's easy to assume they're giving me a hard time on purpose, but there is one student who absolutely is not a jerk to whom I gave a link to type in her browser and she just...didn't get it. Like, her url was impossible and she didn't even know. Until I said "type it EXACTLY like I wrote it" and she finally got in the website.

"Millennials" grew up with computers; "genz" and younger grew up with touchscreens.

Right now it's a very small gap that isn't that big a deal . And this all feels really anecdotal. I just wanted to say there are many anecdotes out there. And as a tech teacher, I'm getting disillusioned by the idea of teaching young kids to code when they don't know how to use a desktop.