Now, 99% of my curriculum is on Google Drive, and I've gotten so used to just beginning to type the name of the file in the browser bar when I need it I can't believe I was tonight old when I discovered you could do that. And I'm soon-to-be 25 🤡 (who avoids Drive whenever possible, except for team projects. I have files like a big boy on my computer, all nice and tidy)
But yes, with Gen Z, I'd say older Gen Z (pre-2000 Gen Z) may be more resourceful when it comes to basics, less so the younger ones because technology had time to improve a whole lot before they were born. When I tell my teenage students Windows XP was peak technology to me because we used to have Windows 2000 at home until the end of 2009, but it was Windows XP at school, they look at me like I'm an artifact at the museum. In result, knowledge is more specialised. Interestingly, an online friend of mine is a med student and she has coding classes, so does my brother who studies civil engineering. He also helds a degree in architecture and knows well the softwares of the field (that my father, a mecaninal engineer, would be a total noob). Some of my students know a bit of coding (not all the languages, of course, even my friend who's a programmer don't know them all), but it comes from personal interest. The others know how to use Google Classroom like champions, but aren't technology-versed in other spheres.
Whereas now I get things like "But I have to scroll through a list of characters on the SWG where I can just start typing the name on AO3," and I'm like :^| I had fun messing up with the Zoom of the screen until I figured what was the right buttons to press, still, nothing compared to trying to battle with Microsoft Office (even my uni's IT is defeated!). Those people are lazy.
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Date: 2022-10-13 01:16 am (UTC)I can't believe I was tonight old when I discovered you could do that. And I'm soon-to-be 25 🤡 (who avoids Drive whenever possible, except for team projects. I have files like a big boy on my computer, all nice and tidy)
But yes, with Gen Z, I'd say older Gen Z (pre-2000 Gen Z) may be more resourceful when it comes to basics, less so the younger ones because technology had time to improve a whole lot before they were born. When I tell my teenage students Windows XP was peak technology to me because we used to have Windows 2000 at home until the end of 2009, but it was Windows XP at school, they look at me like I'm an artifact at the museum. In result, knowledge is more specialised. Interestingly, an online friend of mine is a med student and she has coding classes, so does my brother who studies civil engineering. He also helds a degree in architecture and knows well the softwares of the field (that my father, a mecaninal engineer, would be a total noob). Some of my students know a bit of coding (not all the languages, of course, even my friend who's a programmer don't know them all), but it comes from personal interest. The others know how to use Google Classroom like champions, but aren't technology-versed in other spheres.
Whereas now I get things like "But I have to scroll through a list of characters on the SWG where I can just start typing the name on AO3," and I'm like :^|
I had fun messing up with the Zoom of the screen until I figured what was the right buttons to press, still, nothing compared to trying to battle with Microsoft Office (even my uni's IT is defeated!). Those people are lazy.