The Google Generation
With new search engines and ways to access files, a gap has occurred between generations of people when it comes to the internet. Many grew up without search engines and nowadays all there is are search engines and social media apps. Catherine Garland states, “I tend to think an item lives in a particular folder. It lives in one place, and I have to go to that folder to find it. They see it like one bucket and everything’s in the bucket.” The bucket thing isn’t untrue for me. While in many areas I have things completely organized, if I look up my docs folder and download folder, there is no organization to it. I have the buckets and the particular folders.
This all makes me wonder how often this is actually taught to kids in school. Many are just told what a folder is and it is never really explained, along with the purpose of saving files. While they learn many other digital skills they aren’t learning about this.
I’m glad to know some courses are becoming accommodating, but I feel learning these valuable skills more thoroughly earlier in life would be better.
Lo-fi? The music? Nope.
I will be honest, most of this didn’t stick. Most of it felt like an argument for why you should only/always use Lo-fi programs, the Manifesto definitely try-harded in this area. A quote I loved from this article was “In digital form, writing is nothing but strings of characters, endlessly and potentially losslessly manipulable under conditions that menu-driven graphical software short-circuits in the name of intuition and user-friendliness.” When writing is done by hand, there is a human touch to it, but not so much digitally (depending).
Lo-Fi in general sounds like a good deal. They’re stable and free most of the time. They also can easily be combined with and replaced with other things. We apparently benefit so much from Lo-fi tech and we don’t even know, but we would notice if it just suddenly disappeared.
Lo-Fi stands for: Learning, Openness, Flexibility, and Iteration.
All technologies require learning and Lo-fi learning is sought out. Lo-fi production allows you openness and direct engagement with source code and media elements. Lo-fi is limited but flexibility can emerge from the application of Lo-fi technologies. For iteration, Lo-fi allows the slow and steady improvement of existing work, helping you with digital projects and alternate approaches to production.
Your Guide to HTML
Honestly, I thought this was a really informative guide to what HTML is and how to use it. It breaks it into categories, keeps the videos short, and even gives examples. There is so much more to HTML than I could’ve imagined, especially since I didn’t know about it until recently, but Jen Simmon’s videos are really great. We learned about what HTML is, its role, formatting, understanding it, and how to link and navigate things within it. Plus, this was only just about the first half of it. Plenty more to learn!