You are correct; they have NO IDEA how their file system works. I'm lucky
if they can even recall what they named a file, and they pay ZERO
attention to file formats. One couldn't grasp the concept of overwriting
a file. Sigh.
Judy
On Tue, 14 Feb 2012, Peter Bogdanoff wrote:
When I started working at UCLA in 1996 very few students had used computers
before entering, or at least had used their own computers rather than a lab one
in grade school. Now 15 years later all have a laptop in class. However, about
3/4 of the Mac-using students in a music history class use Spotlight to find
files and open applications on their Macs and most of these don't know any
other way to find their files. In other words, they don't really have a clue
how the file system works. I only started to discover this when I had them
install a project that I'm developing and found out that many have been running
it from their Downloads folder and didn't know to do it any other way.
Would you call these people computer-literate? They sure are Web and social
media literate. So the sooner OS X moves to an iOS-type Finder the better for
them. It could be that OS X is just too easy to use and so they never learn
more than Word, Google, YouTube, and Facebook. The Windows users seem to know a
little more, at least their own version of Samsung Windows or Dell Windows, but
it's only a little more.
Peter Bogdanoff
UCLA
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