My wife and I started talking about this after she had to help an old lady at the DMV figure out how to use her iPhone to scan a QR code. We’re in our early 40s.

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    I agree with people here saying that younger people are just not very computer literate anymore. I bought my daughter a starter desktop computer so she would get more computer literate, but it sits on a desk while she uses her iPad. The schools have Chromebooks, which is the push-here-dummy of operating systems, especially when the school restricts it. Apps on phones and tablets just work. There’s no learning curve.

    Unless they’re specifically interested in computers, they don’t need to be computer literate anymore.

    That said, I think future technology will reflect this. They won’t need to be for most jobs.

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      All you have to do to get kids interested in computers is to get the games they want to play on the computer. They will be motivated to learn how to use it so they can play their games.

      Worked for me in the 90s and my kid today.

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      A lot of children are of the type “a smart horse only jumps as high as it needs”.

      For example, when they have a calculator, they won’t ever use their head to calculate anymore. The most simple additions etc, will go to the calculator. You can talk till you are gray and old how important basic calculation skills are. Instead, you need to take away / restrict the calculator.

      The same goes for computers and other stuff. Create some artificial hurdles and they will learn.

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      They do need to be computer literate if they’re going to get any sort of office job, even moreso now with remote work

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      Teach them about the world of piracy and they will become faster tech literate. Nudge them closer to it but don’t push them to illegal areas.

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      Give her a surgerical operating system like Linux, not Windows, certainly not something Apple based

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        It means understanding how to use computers in more complex ways, like understanding file systems or how to set up your router manually.

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            The problem is they don’t understand something like file paths, that becomes an issue if they want to work an office job. Honestly this is schools failing mostly, even the schools buying tech often buy tablets and stuff like that, which isn’t that usefull for a lot of actual work.

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            Gonna disagree here. People frequently call me with “my computer deleted a file” or " I can’t save a document" because they have no concept of how a file tree works, or how to find where they saved a file on a computer.