Comments on: Abbey Smith – Week 6

By: goosefeet22

goosefeet22 — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 03:08:10 +0000

I also found File Not Found to be really interesting. Even now that we are at the end of the semester, I can’t really say that my filing skills have gotten much better. I have become more descriptive in my naming style, but it almost feels too late to change it all now. I have had my computer for four years and my OneDrive for much much longer, so it feels almost futile to go back and work through all of the files I have made over that time period. I agree that this is something that should be taught, and I think that classes like University 101 or gen eds should put some emphasis on this, because technological skills cannot just expected to be passed from one gen to the next without anyone putting in the effort to teach those younger than themselves. It stood out to me in that piece how this skill was assumed, because I don’t see why it would be. Yes, there were things like computer classes while in school, but I think this slips through the cracks because there is just so much to learn about computers and tech that not everything can fit into the curriculum.

By: ipadbaby22

ipadbaby22 — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 04:36:09 +0000

I totally agree that file orginization skills should be stressed more in school before college, now students are working closely with laptops in middle school, maybe even late elementary school. I think part of this issue is that schools typically dont want students saving files locally to class sets of computers, because of this students rely on services like google drive or google docs. And often students learn how to work systems like Google Drive and Docs on their own; if you are lucky you may get taught how to properly indent on Docs.

Your takeaway from the Lo-Fi Manifesto also highlights the file orginization issue. Its easier to just have some keywords in the file name, click save, and worry later; even though issues may pop up later. Systems like google drive make it easier to just search for a doc, or the date it was made, to find it so many people ignore the more involved route of carefully sorting files. Which can definitely cause issues when it comes to coding, as you point out.

By: LKSOC1004

LKSOC1004 — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 18:53:20 +0000

File not found was really interesting to me because, for a moment, I couldn’t believe that kids had no ideas about file directories and how to navigate this stuff. Once I thought about it more, though, I realized that my knowledge of file directories is a result of my own exploration of it. Through modding games, doing OS reinstalls, cleaning up registries, and general bug fixing I have come to know the Windows system somewhat well. That being said, outside of Reddit and YouTube, no one ever actually sat me down and taught me how to engage with this stuff. Its no wonder why kids today are struggling with it. No one has taken the time to help them and by the time they are introduced to it, they have years of inefficient habits and assumptions about file systems they have to unlearn. It makes me wonder about the thought process of younger generations. There must be some larger psychological system at play when we see kids dump everything into a single folder or on their desktop. I think of the file system as being an expression of how categorized and ordered thinking is in the mind. File systems are a digital analogue to thought and consideration/orders of importance. What does it say about the thought process of the younger generations that their file systems are so disordered yet able to be navigated despite that disorder?