Apparently yes and I cannot wrap my head around this. You’re telling me most of these teens and early 20 something’s dominating social media do not even have a laptop full of organized directories of favorite images? They aren’t downloading and playing with creative SOFTWARE rather than stupid little “apps??” They already can’t navigate what was supposed to be the new standard level of technological familiarity!?
what the fuck
oh so this is why no one pirates media anymore
Pc is more customizable and has a bigger screen. It’s easier to block ads. I can actually read recipes on my pc and never think about ads while I’m using it. Typing is faster, print is bigger, an actually good version of mahjong comes free with it. Clicking things feels good.
I’m 28 and teach High School and things have changed in the 10 years since I was in school. When I was in school the average student knew way more about all digital technology than the teachers. I remember helping my teachers with tech issues all the time. That has completely flipped now.
Teenagers are now more digitally illiterate than teachers. I had to show several students in each class how to add bullet points to a document the other day.
At the beginning of this year I regularly had students call me over and say they can’t find something they are searching for on Google because it didn’t pop up on the summary box at the top. At no point did they think to scroll down and look at the other links or click into a website to see if they can find it by reading the article. They are beginning to learn but it was disturbing that 15 year olds didn’t know how to find basic information online.
It gets worse the further you go back. Back when gen Z was in elementary school, administrators believed that those kids would be so entrenched in the digital world that there was no need to teach them to type, how to use email, or how to stay safe online. Then they decided that teaching students how to write wasn’t important because typing is more common. But they aren’t taught how to type, and typing isn’t something you learn by osmosis.
No keyword use on Google, no ability to write an email, no understanding of customization unless it’s listed in the opening stages of purchasing a new phone. It’s not their fault - they’ve been let down from the beginning. I can’t tell you how often I’ve had to help my sisters look something up because they didn’t know how. I used to type their last-minute essays while they dictated because I can type at 90 wpm and they could type around 20 wpm in high school.
Kids today have been let down in ways I can’t believe, in ways I struggle to understand. I teach college students, most of whom think their canvas inbox is their email account. It’s an uphill battle that they have no choice but to fight.
Rawan’s situation is getting bad again. The infection in her ear has become very painful again, but she’s wary of going back to a doctor because she feels she’s spending too much money on that.
On top of that, some of her clothes and one of her pairs of shoes have been stolen, which is really affecting her mood, because clothes are very expensive and she already has few of them. It’s really cold in Gaza now.
She also wants to enroll herself in a new semester of university, since she wasn’t able to complete her last one due to her circumstances. She’s really eager to get her degree and find a job so she can fully support her family. Unfortunately, that will involve fees. I don’t have all the details yet.
Please contribute to help her keep herself afloat. Anything helps, even just $5, and if you can’t give that, then just sharing these posts makes a big impact. Please don’t ignore her, she’s trying her best to rebuild her life 🙏
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“creepy or wet” being the lasting impact of the gym copypasta is funny because that wasn’t like… a fully bot-generated post. the only things being changed from the original greentext were two words,
based and cringe
btw the gym copypasta was already a riff on “is the movie reddit or not”
jesus fuck. this isn’t even the most soul-destroying tanaka anecdote in the episode either
in this same episode he recounts how when he was 10 years old he felt really cool and mature because he put on a pair of Levi’s jeans and went to go see a James Bond film by himself and then on the way back he got mugged
Dropout is 6$ a month. final fantasy 14 is 15$ a month. Discord nitro classic is 3$ a month. please imagine going without one of these, for just a month– think about what you can live without, and those in Palestine trying to find the means to live.
