Kids who grew up with search engines could change STEM education forever - The Verge - 6 views
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it may also be that in an age where every conceivable user interface includes a search function, young people have never needed folders or directories for the tasks they do
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While many of today’s professors grew up without search functions on their phones and computers, today’s students increasingly don’t remember a world without them
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though directory structures exist on every computer (as well as in environments like Google Drive), today’s iterations of macOS and Windows do an excellent job of hiding them
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the issue is likely not that modern students are learning fewer digital skills, but rather that they’re learning different ones
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STEM educators are increasingly taking on dual roles: those of instructors not only in their field of expertise but in computer fundamentals as well.
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Directory structure isn’t just unintuitive to students — it’s so intuitive to professors that they have difficulty figuring out how to explain it.