• tantalizer@lemmy.world
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    The amount of my students that wrote the whole email in the subject line is crazy. At first I thought it was a mistake or something. But there are sooo many…

    They also don’t know what a file browser/explorer is. As soon as the download notification is gone, the file doesn’t exist anymore.

    Giving files proper names? Unheard of!

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      3 days ago

      So many Boomers I know do the subject line thing, I had no idea it was a Zoomer thing too. Oh no…

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      3 days ago

      This country needs a revolution in education. Basic digital literacy, critical thinking and and the ability to discern facts from msinformation/disinformation need to be taught in school. The whole curriculum needs to be revamped and standardized at the federal level.

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        I’m pretty computer literate (I’m using Fedora silver blue now and I’m a cyber college student), and I’m gen z.

        I hated our digital literacy units in school, because it was always the most braindead shit every year. Stuff that you shouldn’t have to explain to a person every year, like digital footprint (think before you post), make sure it’s a https website, and misinformation vs disinformation. I wanna cry because my tech and society class I’m taking right now feels like the same shit, but I’m paying now.

        I’m not sure how they should revamp, but maybe they need to show modern examples like the honey scam, the thousands of Tiktok influencers who admitted they lied about the stuff they sold when they thought the service was shutting down, and how Google search is forcing shitty AI results. But we do have the unit, it just feels braindead to anyone like me who gives a damn about the services they use online. But I’m a nerd who looks at privacy/cyber shit for fun for hours, not TikTok dual screen braindead…

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      Giving files proper names? Unheard of!

      What kinda monster manages to live like this??? I say hushedly deleting flsjfjsjfksj.pdf

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      As soon as the download notification is gone, the file doesn’t exist anymore.

      That seems to be how Android literally works though.