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@maya can I ask what you mean by the title? Do you believe that young people generally *do* have these skills, or that they are not fundamental, or something else? (I read the post, I didn't see anything addressing the title in it! I agree with your individual criticisms)

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Darius Kazemi

@maya oh lol this is a dump of some very old blog posts of yours. ignore me if you like

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badtuple

@darius @maya one thing often left out of conversations around technical pedagogy (and the "this generation is worse" stigma it brings), is that tons of UI relies on old irrelevant analogy,

The file/folder setup (while conveniently a Tree), was taught as a skeuomorphic analogy to literal folders in a file cabinet. Desktops and windows are a skeuomorphic analogy to moving papers around a desk.

We use less paper now. These analogies don't hold anymore, and we punish new learners for it.

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maya 🧙‍♀️

@darius (the link that was here was ~ maya.land/responses/2021/09/23 for anyone wondering)

The piece mushes up "using directories" with "using directories at the terminal" which are wildly not the same, and IMO not fair to say are equally "fundamental". I would bet $$$ that gen z is equally adept at GUI folder interfaces as, say, gen X.

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