I’ve been saying this for years:

Students May Not Be as Software-Savvy as They Think, Study Says – Wired Campus – The Chronicle of Higher Education.

Below is a talk I started giving in 2005.

Just because people know how to use a tool doesn’t mean they understand that tool. Most of the talk is not about that (the relevant slide is #7), but we really need to get over being impressed by all the gadgets and start looking at what they are, what they can do, and what we need to know in order to use them effectively. Almost always,  you need to know more than how to turn it on and press play.

Sometimes we defer to the ‘superior savvy’ of students because it saves us having to learn it ourselves. We don’t actually look at what they are doing and how they are doing it. For example, even though most people say they know how to ‘Google’, the truth is that most don’t actually know how to find things OR to determine if what they found is worth believing.

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