rynling: (Mog Toast)
Rynling R&D ([personal profile] rynling) wrote 2024-04-26 06:43 pm (UTC)

> and at this point, the ability to navigate a computer) have been diminishing

It’s true. It’s so true. I don’t want to be condescending. I don’t think people should have to “learn by osmosis.” And honestly, as a lazy and complacent PC user, there’s a lot about iOS and Linux systems that I don’t understand. It took me two solid years of using Photoshop every day before I figured out some of its most basic functions.

But I sometimes I wonder how you can be a senior in college and not understand the concept of “folders” or “email attachments.” If this didn’t cause problems, I wouldn’t care. But, as you can imagine, it causes problems.

Anyway... There are definitely better ways to teach History, I agree. But man. Being familiar with names and dates is also important. In every single one of my classes, I have to teach the Pacific War from scratch, and it’s exhausting. Even if you don’t learn anything else about the twentieth century, I feel like you should probably know what Hiroshima is and the year that happened by the time you graduate from high school.

I mean, a lot of my students aren’t American, but still. World War II is a big deal. It makes me wonder what other basic history they’re missing.

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