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Fleur_@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨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.

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