Most of my blog posts are about either my art/writing/other creative hobbies or my studies in business. They're interesting topics.. but tend to be things I either CAN'T go super in-depth into (through lack of fitting studies or just not meeting my standards) or already HAVE (such as.. most of the business ones).
Frankly, I'm itching to talk about literally anything else!
I have a lot of personal stock in computers – I grew up playing on them, I do a lot of my work on them, I talk to many of my friends on them, and I usually draw and write digitally. Generally, a good majority of my hobbies are online. That made me pick up on something somewhat interesting – or concerning.
Many kids, and even teenagers, seem to have a lot less basic computer literacy than was typical when I was growing up. I attribute some of that to the technology we grew up with. Nowadays, there's much more focus on advanced phones rather than computers. In the same way I could be considered “raised by the computer”, many kids are now being “raised by their phone”.
Phones still have their complications and skills to learn. However, in a lot of ways, you innately have a lot less control over them than you do your typical computer. There are fewer skills you NEED to learn, and many aren't transferable elsewhere. I want to see why this is happening.
I don't want to frame this as phones being inherently bad, or something they shouldn't be using. I also don't want to frame this as a failing on the part of the kids or teenagers! If you don't have the tools you need to learn a skill, you're probably not going to learn that skill!
However, I do want to find the root of where this is coming from and how I can address it.
Right now, this thought is mostly anecdotal evidence. I'm excited to look deeper into it, though! This is the topic I'm focusing on for this class's project, after all. Look forward to it!
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