{"id":13579,"date":"2021-09-28T10:00:57","date_gmt":"2021-09-28T15:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=13579"},"modified":"2021-09-26T20:05:26","modified_gmt":"2021-09-27T01:05:26","slug":"it-is-the-children-who-are-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2021\/09\/it-is-the-children-who-are-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"It is the children who are wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/22684730\/students-file-folder-directory-structure-education-gen-z\">The Verge:\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"VhPrjh\"><em>Gradually, Garland came to the same realization that many of her fellow educators have reached in the past four years: <strong>the concept of file folders and directories, essential to previous generations\u2019 understanding of computers, is gibberish to many modern students.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>But if students don&#8217;t understand directories, how can they create folders to hold images for their &#8230; oh, right, no one makes websites anymore.<\/p>\n<p>Heaven help us if they ever encounter a C:\\ prompt.<\/p>\n<p id=\"zFii3X\"><em>\u201cAs much as I want them to be organized and try for them to be organized, it\u2019s just a big hot mess,\u201d Vogel says of her files. She adds, \u201cMy family always gives me a hard time when they see my computer screen, and it has like 50 thousand icons.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I think my brain just kernel panicked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Verge:\u00a0 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\u2019 understanding of computers, is gibberish to many &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2021\/09\/it-is-the-children-who-are-wrong\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13579"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13580,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13579\/revisions\/13580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}