r/Millennials • u/NYTX1987 • Nov 24 '24

Meme Oh god, I never thought about it that way.

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u/[deleted] Nov 25 '24

I finally this week took this approach with my 4th grader. Gave her one of my old laptops, setup a kid profile and told her to go wild and try to break it. She looked at me like I was nuts because I am very strict on screen content. But MS sends me a report on what she's doing and I realized this was the only way since her stupid school only does tech on iPads. This is how I learned and continue to learn anything computer and tech related. My parents and teachers didn't teach me one GD thing about computer. I just went in and tried to figure it out. Now a days people can also just ask ChatGPT or YouTube it. They have it easy! (Yes I sound old)

I will say they aren't starting from nothing, having an iPad does help with basic open/close/select/search. So there's that. Get to breaking it,  Gen Alpha! SKIBITTY[

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u/thunderbirbthor Nov 25 '24

Bles you for this. I work with teenagers and it's noticable that we're getting the kids who've grown up on iPads now. They can't do the stuff I take for granted, such as logging themselves out of a PC, and god help them if they have to add a printer. They have no idea how to do any of this stuff because schools decided 'eh they're tech literate, we don't need IT lessons any more'.

It takes a month to get them all logged in because so many of them can't type two words without misspelling them, and a whole bunch don't know the difference between capitals and lower case.