• burgerpocalyse@lemmy.world
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    this is less a problem of ‘people are stupid’ and more ‘educational institutions have been dismantled over the last several decades and large numbers of people are pushed through school despite being functionally illiterate, if they graduate at all’

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      It’s not just dismantling of education. It’s the corporate creep into the education system from companies like Microsoft, Google and Apple. They want people get locked into their systems. So they start them young. Instead of learning basic os agnostic computer skills, kids at school are locked into cloud dependent apps.

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      No it’s just that Zoomers only use touchscreen, which are vastly simplified devices compared to a desktop computer

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      Hey, I was never taught how to rotate a PDF.

      I just looked for the button in the viewer.

      Sometimes, I just rotate the screen instead.

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      Personally I’d blame parents more than the schools, especially in America. Parent involvement is nearing all-time lows and it seems a lot of them are expecting all learning to be done outside the home. I learned more about computers from my dad than any class or teacher.

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        one of the major benefits of going to school is you can learn stuff your parents don’t know or can’t teach.

        In your country, when you were a child, how many parents out of 1000 knew more than a computer teacher about computing?

        You are advocating for a world where only the children of the educated can become educated.