Abbey Smith – Week 6

File Not Found by Monica was a very interesting read for me. The overall idea that the students of my generation can study very complicated and intricate concepts, such as astrophysics, but not know how to correctly organize their files is so fascinating. I’d like to think I keep all my files very organized, and I think I could be even more organized. However, after reading about the way some students go about organizing their files, I’m not too embarrassed of my organization skills anymore. I found it interesting that some students had only one folder for all schoolwork, instead of folders for each subject and the classes within those subjects. Basically, I think it’s important to learn file organization skills because it can be very important to your work one day, as shown in this reading. For example, certain code programs need organization to be able to function. It’s important that our future coders like correct organization. I also find it interesting how my generation’s teachers are sort of to blame for this phenomenon. As mentioned in the reading, students today are supposed to rely on google drive, dropbox, etc. For organizing their files rather than thinking of it as an actual file cabinet. I think it would be best to maybe limit this and teach correct organization in order to prepare students for college.  

The Lo-Fi Manifesto was a more difficult, and maybe even boring read but there were definitely some important concepts within there. From my notes, what seemed to stand out to me the most was that “technologies shouldn’t prioritize ease over expertise.” It feels like so many people want their technology to be quick and easy nowdays, without even thinking about how it could be better and more beneficial. I agree with this statement; I feel it’s more important to create a technology that has better quality over the quantity.  

I really enjoyed the HTML training videos. By accident, I watched more chapters of the videos than was required, but I still found it extremely beneficial. A lot of the things discussed felt like they should be common sense but were things I hadn’t considered or didn’t know were as important as they were. And if I was aware of certain concepts, they were nice refreshers. Overall, I don’t know as much about HTML as I thought I did. I think the training videos were very well organized and extremely helpful.