• xxkickassjackxx@lemmy.ml
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    2 years ago

    I was right in the edge of Gen Z and Millennial and grew up being the family’s tech kid. It still astounds me now that my younger sisters don’t know how to even look for solutions. They just get me. Having moved out I get texts and calls sometimes. I’ve had to explain that using a computer is a skill that is learnable. I didn’t learn by going to someone else. I had to learn how to learn. That’s the skill we should be teaching kids. Not how to solve the problems, but how to FIND the solution to problems.

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      2 years ago

      Teach a child to fish, basically.

      If we keep making it easy for them… Ask and I’ll give you all the answers… They’ll never learn.

      My first response these days is, “What have you tried so far?” And, “What are you searching for in ‘Google’?”

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        2 years ago

        I also ask “what have you tried so far” mostly because too many times I get into troubleshooting and then discover that they’ve created a new problem while doing their own troubleshooting. (Like one time they plugged in a second cable between two switches - good god was that hard to troubleshoot remotely)