90 percent of people in their studies don’t know how to use CTRL/Command + F to find a word in a document or web page! I probably use that trick 20 times per day and yet the vast majority of people don’t use it at all.

“90 percent of the US Internet population does not know that. This is on a sample size of thousands,” Russell said.

Alexis Madrigal – Technology – The Atlantic spotted on swissmiss | Digital Literacy

Training teachers I find there are still some who do not know about this (or ⌘ + C for copy, ⌘ + v paste etc). I am not sure how this has slipped past NOF, cpd etc but is it going to be hard for the Minister’s vision to come true without these sorts of simple skills becoming more widespread?

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