Helped my roommate do a 25-question homework assignment on
HIV/AIDS. She was really struggling
with her methodology. She would
handwrite every question and every answer while working from the [seemingly
wrong] handout. First I showed her how
to highlight the question and right-click to Google the answer. Then I got her to stop using the an old
version of the handout and use the handout from her classes online website.
She was flummoxed, frustrated and overwhelmed by the assignment due in large
part to an extremely labor intensive method due to a lack of skills with Word,
Google and homework.
I tend to discount knowledge that I have due to a known fallacy of
assuming people know what I know. As
reminded of while helping my roommate, I have excellent Google/copy/paste
skills. 15 years ago as a MS Windows
support tech, the best skill I had was being able to accurately setup a Google
search. If I could have only one web URL
to use, that URL would be Google—to get to all others.
I am grateful for my reading, writing, computer and web literacy. Those skills make my life incalculably
better.
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