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    Trotz des Rufs, technisch versiert zu sein, hinkt die Generation Z beim Tippen hinterher | Die Generation Z, auch als Zoomer bekannt, ist erschreckend schlecht im Blindschreiben


    Trotz des Rufs, technisch versiert zu sein, hinkt die Generation Z beim Tippen hinterher | Die Generation Z, auch als Zoomer bekannt, ist erschreckend schlecht im Blindschreiben

    https://www.techspot.com/news/104623-think-gen-z-good-typing-think-again.html

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    1. BrandoCalrissian1995 on

      You can tell they weren’t taught about tech or anything. Idk how someone who has grown up around tech literally their whole life can he so tech illiterate.

    2. DonManuel on

      They replaced it with thumb- and auto-completion-skills, funny enough they even often fail at auto-correction.

      Been a long journey since I learned typing in school on an IBM typeball electric typewriter – which were more productive than the average home-computer of the time.

    3. mozilla666fox on

      Some of y’all didn’t rush to finish your spelling schoolwork so you can run to the computer lab and play “Mario Teaches Typing 2” and it shows.

    5. ididi8293jdjsow8wiej on

      Probably because they learned how to type on a smartphone.

    6. Cley_Faye on

      I wouldn’t call the general population born in what the “gen Z” are (according to wikipedia) to be anything close to tech-savvy. They’re tech users, sure. But move a button or change a checkbox color and they’re as lost as your average grandma.

    7. fail-deadly- on

      Tech-savvy is just a media stereotype about kids, that basically means young people can use commonly available technology.

    9. HempPotatos on

      I say its time for new input methods, or even bring back some of the old like the Pre QWERTY layout they had DEVORAK * sp? they had to change it because the equipment couldn’t keep up with the humans and led to a slower layout for overall efficiency.

    12. KrookedDoesStuff on

      Tech savvy reputation?

      GenZ is known for being as tech savvy as a boomer. They can use cell phones and apps well but you put them in front of a PC and they’re no better than Grandma

    13. BirdsAndTheBeeGees1 on

      Yet we all have to show out bosses how to convert a Word Doc to a PDF or how to print something on a daily basis. Funny how that works.

    14. Flat-Lifeguard2514 on

      Add this to the list of things they should know to do, but may not and struggle with. The list probably includes: reading analog clocks, using a key to open doors and start a car, and cursive.

    15. astrozombie2012 on

      Most people don’t need to type fast anymore anyway… I don’t really see this as that much of an issue

      Edit: why am I getting downvoted? I’m not fucking wrong. Not everyone is a professional who needs to type 80-100 wpm

    16. Tyrrox on

      Time on task, they’ll get better as they need if they work jobs that require it. This is really a non-issue.

    17. Babayagaletti on

      It’s a weird curve in my office. The boomers are pretty meh with tech so Gen X and millenials stepped in to be their immediate IT support. I don’t mind doing it, it’s not a hassle to me. But we had a influx of Gen Z now, some are only 8 years younger than me. And they are so unfamiliar with office IT. I guess in my childhood there simply was no distinction between office and home IT, it was mostly the same stuff. But now most people only deal with wireless tablets/smartphones and maybe a laptop. We just had to redo our desk setup and that included rearranging all the cables, swapping the monitors etc. And the Gen Z’s just couldn’t do it? They were completely lost. After they detached *my* LAN cable while I was holding a video meeting with 50 people I took over and finished the job by myself. And mind you, I consider my IT skills to be pretty average.

    18. Kumquat_of_Pain on

      You mean you have to use your hands? That’s like a baby’s toy!

      (Guess the movie quote from a movie released before Gen Z was even born)

    19. Lauuson on

      The typing class I took as a high school freshman has easily been the most valuable class I have ever taken. I hope that parents start to demand that typing classes be required of all high school students.

    22. Rockfest2112 on

      Not doing too well in expressing themselves through identifying skill sets such as long hand writing either.

    23. mouse9001 on

      Is it really that surprising? As an older Millennial, we had touch typing classes. We actually sat in front of old Mac computers with black-and-white screens, and practiced typing with a program that would give us different challenges, and measured our speed. There was a whole process to learning it.

      Anybody who grew up with touch typing lessons on a typewriter or computer would probably be ahead of someone who didn’t. My mom is a Boomer who isn’t savvy with computers, but she can definitely type, because she taught herself with a Mavis Beacon PC program back in the 90s.

      We take all that stuff from the 80s and 90s for granted, but we grew up learning all those basic tech skills with computers. DOS, Windows 3.1, Windows 95… Kids today who might have grown up with an iPad or a smartphone won’t learn all the computer stuff by osmosis. We learned it gradually as it all came out.

    24. airborngrmp on

      I told my Lit teacher in High School, 25 years ago, that it was stupid to have us learn, practice, get graded on our cursive script, and that the time would be far better spent teaching typing. I said the same thing to my kids’ elementary school teacher 5 years ago – and it remains a stupid waste of time and resources today.

      I don’t care about the tangentially related artistic/spatial reasoning bullshit that gets thrown about when speaking of penmanship – if that’s so important, put art class back in the f*cking curriculum – it could be far better time used teaching some keyboard skills.

    26. hawtfabio on

      Gen Z I’d only good at using a smartphone. Their computer skills are often atrocious.

    27. gaoshan on

      I’m Gen X and work in IT and I am completely incapable of touch typing. I hunt and peck fluently and quickly… hasn’t negatively impacted me in the slightest.

    28. whatitpoopoo on

      They don’t teach this in school any more. You can’t belittle someone for something they were never taught.

    29. Agreeable_Ad9844 on

      I learned typing in school. As far as I understand they aren’t doing this anymore.

    30. I_Zeig_I on

      Milenials grew up in tech infancy, had to deal with the bugs and learn the work around.

      Synonymous to Millennial and some X tinkering eith cars while gen Z just drives them. Maybe they know how to change a tire, maybe.

    31. currentfuture on

      This is the difference between being able to use a technology appliance vs knowing how it works and being able to build it or program it.

      Tech-savy of the previous generations implies something different.

      Using a phone is not tech savvy.

    32. Appex92 on

      My gfs son is 10, spends a lot of his time on tablet and switch yet he is terrible at the actual functions of electronics and they apparently don’t teach typing in school anymore so every kid uses the pointer finger poking keys method; this is definitely a widespread thing and they’re canadian so can’t even say it’s just the US

    33. PMzyox on

      Can anyone in this thread tell me why we use QWERTY keyboards in the US? If not, please stop trying to educate the rest of us on tech history.

    34. fourangers on

      I met a Gen Z coworker that is terribly slow in typing. The first time I saw it she was taking very long and I was dreading “oh no, here comes a wall a text” and ended up being 2 lines lmao

    35. Neutral-President on

      It’s not that they don’t know how, it’s that *they were never taught.*

      Nobody intuitively knows how to touch-type on their own. GenX seems to forget that we took typing courses in high school, which aren’t offered any more. School boards seem to think that this “digital native” generation were born with touch typing skills in their DNA.

    36. MidasPL on

      Lol, those comparisons using “generations” are so stupid generalization and have pretty much any reflection only in the US.

    37. yokmsdfjs on

      Considering traditional keyboards “tech” is such a millennial thing to do. This is like Boomers saying nobody knows how to dial a phone when people use rotary phones awkwardly.

      I don’t even think my nephew has actually ever touched a traditional keyboard in his life, but he has zero issues texting and writing at speed with his phone and tablet.

    39. unlock0 on

      Millennials had the wild west when it came to IT. Today’s devices are so locked down that the general user doesn’t do anything but consume features. They don’t get to learn how the underlying technology works because they don’t actually interact with it.

    40. GreenFox1505 on

      Shit like this is ALWAYS dude to a reduced need for a particular set of skills. They bitched that millennials, my generation, doesn’t know how to write a check or use a type writer. Have Zoomers ever needed to write a letter? Does anyone in this thread know how to plow a field or thresh grain? The needs of society change.

    41. Vo_Mimbre on

      We’re two years from voice becoming the default and AI filling in the rest. My grandkid will see typing like we do cursive writing.

      This article is why. Bad typing doesn’t matter in the modern age.

    42. Thefrayedends on

      I haven’t been in school for a couple decades now, but I heard that many places are not teaching cursive, and also no typing classes. What was it replaced with (assuming it was true)?

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