@readsteven i suppose that's true. what I got from the article though is that these students haven't learned effective ways to organize information for efficient access. they admit themselves that their files are "a mess". it's certainly possible we haven't provided them with the right abstractions for organizing things in a way that's intuitive for them, but the interfaces they seem to have for reference curate and structure information for them, though not necessarily on their behalf or for their benefit. maybe I don't know specifically what the circuits in my laptop are doing when I save a file or directory -- I have a decent idea, but I couldn't quote what traces are activated or something -- but the "searching" on web platforms has a locus of control with the service provider or with the crowd of other users, and I suppose I fear what kind of interface might be created by students who expect that 🤷‍♂️