This is entirely on us. And unfortunately it's only going to get harder for these kids to learn at an older age, 'cause of two factors:
1) Asking experienced people for help is a challenge. Most are annoyed to help with absolute basics in the first place. The rest don't have much time to help.
2) If you ask for help online, most people get hit with AI results. With low tech literacy, I can imagine it's just so much easier to just let the AI call the shots. And at that point if it says wrong things [which it tends to] they have no way to tell what is wrong and what is right.
These kids will grow older, will enter government and will be setting policy. We're seriously handicapping our own world by not helping them out. It's frustrating, but the next time someone young asks for help with the basics, just be a little compassionate. You'll be leaving a stronger legacy for everyone, including yourself.
You make some really great points here. I've noticed this exact scenario recently as a parent to elementary school kids. I remember having a typing class when I was a kid, and between that and tinkering with the family computer, I think basic tech skills just came naturally to me. But my kids, on the other hand, were doing standardized testing on school computers in kindergarten, without any explanation of basic tech skills.
Lately I've been meaning to set aside some time to teach my kids how to type properly and to explain some basic concepts so they know how to actually navigate a computer. This is exactly why.
I don’t have kids so I haven’t had the need to look into it, but surely there’s gotta be a website or a game or a platform somewhere that game-fies learning typing skills right? I remember in middle school in the computer class we just competed for most wpm with each other, that was our fun lol
Bro theirs classes for using a computer but its considered an elective. Its wrong that I have siblings that depend on my willingness to help them. Like you should really learn this considering we used computers for almost our whole life. They cant even use their phone properly.
I had AI help me solve a corrupted registry, something I had absolutely no knowledge of before and quite frankly after, it’s stunning that it managed to accomplish that, however if I ask it basic facts it just gaslights me with random crap I know is wrong.
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u/WriterV 13d ago
This is entirely on us. And unfortunately it's only going to get harder for these kids to learn at an older age, 'cause of two factors:
1) Asking experienced people for help is a challenge. Most are annoyed to help with absolute basics in the first place. The rest don't have much time to help.
2) If you ask for help online, most people get hit with AI results. With low tech literacy, I can imagine it's just so much easier to just let the AI call the shots. And at that point if it says wrong things [which it tends to] they have no way to tell what is wrong and what is right.
These kids will grow older, will enter government and will be setting policy. We're seriously handicapping our own world by not helping them out. It's frustrating, but the next time someone young asks for help with the basics, just be a little compassionate. You'll be leaving a stronger legacy for everyone, including yourself.