Google’s generation of students doesn’t know what files and folders are, according to teachers
The college students have reached the degrees of Engineering and Physics they have to be instructed in files and folders. These do not know what they are, and according to The Verge it is for how they have grown up using a PC.
It is simply because when they need a file, they search in google, something about which the astrophysicist Catherine Garland. “I used to think that a file was in a certain folder, it is there and I have to go to that place to find it“.
“Now they see everything as a cube and everything is there“Strange as it may seem to past generations, and like everything else, the PC has evolved. These generations live immersed in very powerful search engines, main engine when configuring a computer from 0.
Similarly, mobiles and tablets operate in the same way and even the one saved in the cloud. For this reason, recent graduates and those who are starting at university, if they need something, they look for it and store it without further ado, so hard drives do not see the same.
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“Students have had these PCs in my lab, they have hundreds of files on their desk, and I am an obsessive organizer“, He said Peter Plavchan, associate professor of physics and astronomy at George Mason University, who I commented it like this to The Verge.
“They have no problem with 1,000 files like that and I think it’s because of how we access them now“. As they point out in The Verge, “the first search engine was created in 1990, but Windows Search and Spotlight on macOS are from 2000 […] While most teachers grew up without them on their phones and PCs, today’s students can’t remember a world without them.“.
Obviously, this is not bad since times change and people with them. “When I was a student I’m sure a teacher would say ‘OMG I don’t understand how this person doesn’t know how to drop a chip onto a board’ and this kind of thing (surprises) will never go away“Plavchan said.
And Garland, the astrophysicist who teaches engineering, has started using search engine functions on her PC, searching for files just like her students. “Is this, like, I don’t even need these folders inside of it“, He said.
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Source: The Verge (Thanks, PC Gamer)
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