Comment What needs to be corrected? (Score 1) 302
What misconceptions or outright lies have become so ingrained in young people's use of technology that they need to be addressed?
Above all else, they need to be freed of the delusion that the ability to use a smart phone or tablet qualifies as "technical skills." Those devices are appliances, and using one does not confer any actual technical skills or knowledge at all.
Back in my university and high school days, it would be like someone who took a typing class claiming that they're "PC literate" because they know how to keyboard.