Millennials: They Aren’t So Tech Savvy After All?? Hmmmm......

Being a Digital Native and understanding how to use business software such as an Excel spreadsheet are two different things. If you measure tech savvy by whether you know how to use the features found in specific software packages - then not only are you missing the point, you are showing your own lack of tech savvy.

Being a Millennial, and being a digital native, is not about knowing the specific features of software, but about being comfortable with technology and have the capacity to learn and understand how technology fits into your life. Sit the author down with a millennial side by side with two completely new pieces of technology - want to know my bet on who will be more comfortable and be able to use and integrate that new technology into their lives first and easiest?

Yeah...didn't think you would take that bet.....

Millennials: They Aren’t So Tech Savvy After All

Conventional wisdom has it that kids and young adults now coming of age have been so steeped in everything from video games to social networking that they bring amazing new technology skills to the workforce. The truth may not be so rosy.

Even as millennials (those born and raised around the turn of the century) enter college with far more exposure to computer and mobile technology than their parents ever did, professors are increasingly finding that their students' comfort zone is often limited to social media and Internet apps that don’t do much in the way of productivity. One professor at the University of Notre Dame, for example, reports that many of his students don't even know how to navigate menus in productivity applications.

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