About 15 years ago the idea appeared of newer generations being "digital natives," kids who had grown up their whole lives around computers and so it was second nature. It seemed like the obvious extension of the kinds of things we already experienced--things like the computer-literate grandchild trying to walk grandma through some basic process like checking her email. We were already used to every generation being more technologically literate than the one before, so why wouldn't that continue even more for the ones who had tablets and smartphones from a young age?

So a lot of these things were cut. Why spend the time teaching computer science to high schoolers who'd had computers for a decade or more at least? Why teach keyboarding to middle-schoolers who'd been texting with touchscreen keyboards for years?

But they didn't count on how much all these devices and processes would be dumbed down and simplified and streamlined in order to make them accessible to as many people as possible. Kids these days don't understand anything at all about computers--they just know the app buttons on their phones. They don't even understand the simplest things about computers--booting it up, opening a browser and typing a URL, dragging a file into a folder. If you ask them who knows how to actually type, most of them will raise their hand, because they think "knowing how to type" means they know where the keys are instead of having to hunt for each one--but they'll still use just their index fingers.

Kids are natives of nothing but the hyper-user-friendly interface of iPhones, and schools got rid of computer training because older generations who aren't comfortable with smartphones didn't recognize that knowing how to use the phones doesn't translate into knowing how to use actual computers.