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Fleur_@aussie.zone 5 days agoYeah so they’re stating that gen z is less equipped for technical work than someone might assume. Nowhere have they been compared to other generations tech literacy which you claimed it would nor was a tech literacy test done on any generation with the only data being from questions targeted at gen z asking them about themselves.
kernelle@0d.gs 5 days ago
Can’t do the reading for you…
This stuff has been talked about for at least 5 years. Here’s two studies that have come to the same conclusions. By The University of Toledo and the ICILS EU.
Fleur_@aussie.zone 5 days ago
Here’s the full quote
“Gen Z may be less equipped for the future of technical work than we think.”
Less then people think does not mean less than other generations.
This is from the first source you mentioned.
“Many millennials, individuals born between 1981 and 1996, and the Generation Z population, born after 1997, have learned to be great, efficient consumers of technology, such as sending pictures, sharing videos and texting or other short-form communication.”
"However, they are far less adept at understanding how to use technology to create useful solutions to their business challenges "
Doesn’t compare gen z against millennials nor does it state that either are less tech savvy then previous generations just that the tech demands of work have been increasing faster then the education standards. That is to say that while tech literacy has gone up the demand for tech skills has grown further. This study does not say at all that tech literacy has been declining.
Following through to the study in the second source, “The results demonstrate that significant efforts are needed in order to move closer to the ambitious EU-level target of reducing the share of low-achieving students in computer and information literacy to less than 15% by 2030.” That is to say the source is showing how education targets are failing to be reached not that education levels are declining. This study also does not compare generational tech literacy levels.
Very strange to see all these sources that supposedly show tech literacy is declining generationally yet none of them are any studies of the level of tech skills each generation has had during the period they were joining the workforce and a subsequent comparison. Almost like that’s a made up abstraction based off of vibes.
kernelle@0d.gs 4 days ago
Conveniently left out the relevant part:
This, togheter with the previous paragraph which you mentioned, is talking about a direct comparison of Gen Z and Millennials and it directly states Gen Z is less tech savvy than Millennials.
But it does, like multiple times, even on paragraphs you quoted.
I provide you with multiple sources explaining how tech literacy is declining, you keep saying they don’t compare. What do you think less means? What do you think declining means? It means they are comparing.
Try wasting someone else’s time lmao
Fleur_@aussie.zone 4 days ago
“However, they (they as in Gen Z) are far less (less as in compared with the Millennials) adept at understanding how to use technology”
You just added in the “they as in gen z” into the text. The text is referring to both millennials and gen z at this part in the text. There is also no source for this claim it’s just what some guy thinks. No actual study or data is provided.
The article does not compare gen z and millennials. Show me the unedited quote. Of them doing that.
Show me the quotes where it says tech literacy is declining. Like I said, you’re making abstractions based off of vibes. None of your sources provide any data showing tech literacy declining.