10-07-2012, 05:37 PM
I've noticed that very often, it's the people with no curiosity about anything who "can't understand how to work things" on a computer, phone, etc.
It would never even occur to them to click/tap/select/pull-down ANYTHING that they don't already know what it does.
And naturally, unless they actually TRY STUFF, or god forbid, read a FRAKKING MANUAL, they will never know what those buttons/menu's/icons "do".
Two examples where I just had to walk away from people at work.... lest I say something that would have gotten me in trouble.
A teacher had about 300 documents on her desktop... overlapping each other, with no room AT ALL... couldn't even find the hard drive icon.
I asked her "why don't you drag some of this stuff to folders? Or open your documents folder here on the dock and put some stuff there?".
"Oh, I didn't know you could make folders.... how do you drag stuff?"
She's been using the computers at work since before I worked there... (10+ years).
Another teacher is trying to get this photo's "on a CD" from a school digital camera. He's trying to use his CD/Stereo system in his classroom at first... but that's not even the story...
I ask; "Why do you want them on a CD?".
"So I can print them out at walgreens".
I pointed out that he could just connect the camera to his COMPUTER and print them.
"Oh, I didn't know I could print them from the computer".
Just before I beg off and walk out, I point out a nice graphic laminated card on the digital camera box I made a couple years ago, with the title "How to Connect Camera and Print Photo's". And hand him the USB cable tagged "to connect to computer".
And keep in mind, these are folks that are SUPPOSED to be teaching a technology curriculum to K-8 students!
It would never even occur to them to click/tap/select/pull-down ANYTHING that they don't already know what it does.
And naturally, unless they actually TRY STUFF, or god forbid, read a FRAKKING MANUAL, they will never know what those buttons/menu's/icons "do".
Two examples where I just had to walk away from people at work.... lest I say something that would have gotten me in trouble.
A teacher had about 300 documents on her desktop... overlapping each other, with no room AT ALL... couldn't even find the hard drive icon.
I asked her "why don't you drag some of this stuff to folders? Or open your documents folder here on the dock and put some stuff there?".
"Oh, I didn't know you could make folders.... how do you drag stuff?"
She's been using the computers at work since before I worked there... (10+ years).
Another teacher is trying to get this photo's "on a CD" from a school digital camera. He's trying to use his CD/Stereo system in his classroom at first... but that's not even the story...
I ask; "Why do you want them on a CD?".
"So I can print them out at walgreens".
I pointed out that he could just connect the camera to his COMPUTER and print them.
"Oh, I didn't know I could print them from the computer".
Just before I beg off and walk out, I point out a nice graphic laminated card on the digital camera box I made a couple years ago, with the title "How to Connect Camera and Print Photo's". And hand him the USB cable tagged "to connect to computer".
And keep in mind, these are folks that are SUPPOSED to be teaching a technology curriculum to K-8 students!