Even on larger screens such as tablets, where technically it is possible to split the screen, it’s not very often that we see users working with two different applications side by side. Most phones today don’t allow two different application windows visible on the screen at the same time. It’s very likely that by now they have learned how to juggle multiple windows.īut their behavior back in 2019 was due to the single-window constraint on modern smartphones. Things may have changed in the era of COVID, with kids being forced to spend their school day in front of their laptops. 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.
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