Gradually, Garland came to the same realization that many of her fellow educators have reached in the past four years: the concept of file folders and directories, essential to previous generations’ understanding of computers, is gibberish to many modern students.
But if students don’t understand directories, how can they create folders to hold images for their … oh, right, no one makes websites anymore.
Heaven help us if they ever encounter a C:\ prompt.
“As much as I want them to be organized and try for them to be organized, it’s just a big hot mess,” Vogel says of her files. She adds, “My family always gives me a hard time when they see my computer screen, and it has like 50 thousand icons.”
I think my brain just kernel panicked.