From Computers To Mechanisms … The Demand For Teaching Skills The ?Reverse Way?

A growing number of students enters universities having spent considerable amount of time with computers and other devices that expand only visual interaction and combination skills. How do they do with their digital understanding of a largely analog world that surrounds us? What difficulties do they encounter learning traditional tools and machines? Analysis of usefulness of these skills in today’s workplace, and what else must be taught. Results given by the "let's try and see" experimental attitude in various lab and classroom courses. Analysis of tests and observations of students having different backgrounds and levels of skills.