
They seemed to have no idea that they could place two different application windows side by side and combine information from both sources and were painfully trying to move from one application to another. They all owned smartphones and were masters at using those, but when it came to switching tasks on their laptops or working with multiple applications, they were completely ignorant. What was amazing to me as an observer was how little these kids knew about how to use a computer. It was the first class in a Java course and they were supposed to install several programs in order to set up their personal laptops so they could compile and run Java programs.

Back in the fall of 2019, I remember observing a group of middle schoolers interacting with computers.
