Lefteris Karapetsas
@lefteris.eth
I get the feeling that computer literacy is decreasing. We are getting a lot more "screen" users, the majority of whom are doomscrolling or swipe left/swipe right zombies. People that need everything dumbed down for them and just consume, consume, consume. This is dangerous for our society as a whole. A world where you grow up surrounded by digital devices but are only mindlessly fed content through them is a dystopia. We need more tinkerers. We need more curiosity. We need more hackers.
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Vanessa Williams
@fridgebuzz.eth
Amen to that. I see so many young people heading off to uni to study computer science. None of them have ever written a program outside of their high school class in their lives. They all want to be game programmers. They have no idea what’s required to be a game dev. They graduate. They drift.
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aerique
@aerique.eth
777 $degen
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Brent Fitzgerald
@bf
Digital literacy is a hard thing to teach because the space moves so fast and there’s often a vocational aspect to it. My hot take is that we’re teaching “computer science” wrong in school. Little kids are learning Scratch (which is great), but then “progress” to building websites in HTML and JavaScript. That’s consumer level programming. We need high school curriculums to start at CS bedrock in theory and practice: FSAs and CFGs, tape machines, then simplified assembly, then some C or BASIC. Really impress into those squishy brains how computers and software work fundamentally. Them let them explore higher level abstractions later.
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Web3 UI/UX
@web3uiux
Check out this. Absolutely agree! My son, who has autism but fortunately is quite adept at logical and repetitive tasks, has a keen interest in computer science. It’s frustrating that his school decided to cut the CS program because some students found it too challenging. While computer science isn't easy, eliminating it undermines the future potential of students who are passionate about creating and innovating. At 14, I'm teaching him CS myself using whatever resources we can find online. Schools should be places of learning, regardless of the difficulty, especially if there are students who are eager to tackle the challenges. Sometimes, it's not the kids but rather lazy teachers who don't know how to support and inspire a love for the subject or effectively transfer their knowledge. We can't let our society devolve into 'scroll zombies' as you mentioned. We need to support and provide opportunities for those eager to learn and excel.
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nomygod
@nomygod.eth
i will never forget when i told my (18+ year old) younger brother to open up file explorer or whatever and he didn't know so i told him to click on "my computer" and he went to the start bar and started typing "my computer" im like YOU GREW UP ON A COMPUTER HOW DO YOU NOT KNOW THIS STUFF
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Acid
@0xacid
Everything is gettinf dumped down in the spirit of "easier UX for the masses". From OS UI to apps and games. For the latter, I just stopped playing :) But the direct consequences of "making stuff easier to use" is exactly what you describe in OP.. personnally conserned as well how this translates to younger generations becoming consumers instead of users with a certain degree of autonomy
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max ↑🎩
@baseddesigner.eth
Wild times ahead that's for sure, speaking of masses
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nuconomy ⌐◨-◨
@nuconomy.eth
I get the feeling that AI could accelerate this, now that even active questions are spoonfed too. However it also has the possibilty to educate when fed the right questions and with a little critical thinking. How do we keep ourselves asking the right questions and looking beyond the surface?
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Srini
@valekar
What about us who are posting and commenting here ? 😅
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SunnyDaye
@sunnydaye
Yes! Enrolled my kid in a basic coding class for grade 4, and altho they did block language, there was actually no basic computer info..
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