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• 3abas@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  “what’s a computer”

  Most of these ipad kids are just as illiterate as old people who don’t understand how to switch apps on an ipad. Knowing how to use Snapchat isn’t a skill, they don’t know how how to mount a drive, they are just as susceptible to propaganda and tomorrow’s advanced technology won’t just make sense to them when they’re older.

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  • The__Guy_Fawkes@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Well yea, technically anything that computes is a computer. But the children today are still forced to use fast computers at school. I am talking about basic tasks that a 80 year old can’t do today that a 5 year old can do. And yes, I’ve asked the teachers. A lot of kids can’t read at an alarming age.

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    • 3abas@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I was referencing the ipad commercial where the kids say “what’s a computer?”

      Kids today don’t understand the technology any more than kids yesterday understood early computers or kids before that understood early electronics, being able to use a technology product as intended doesn’t mean much, as they get older they’ll stop adopting the latest and greatest that the kids are into “these days” and will get out of touch and be left behind.

      A subset of old people will still understand the newest technology as they do today, because that’s what they’re into, not because they simply grew up with it.

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      • The__Guy_Fawkes@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I am not talking about repairing them, just knowing how to use them.

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