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I don't think I want to meet a 12 year old who uses power point. Jk lol
They all use it if they want to pass school, so you are out of luck.
I mean, it's pretty much required in school. I had about 5 presentations each grade from late elementary through the end of high school
Well that explains why my job just expects me to know it without any warning... I'm almost 50, I have no problem learning new things if you tell me I need to, but when I was in school, computers were still luxuries...
i graduated after 2000 and was not expected to do so much as a single powerpoint presentation
Kids spend a large amount of their school time copy/pasting from google images and wikipedia into powerpoint and have done so for a couple of decades in many schools.
It seems very likely the lack of hand writing and illustration creates a huge deficit in fine motor skills. And copy pasting is probably detrimental to comprehension and knowledge retention. As long as educators don't question the motivation of tech companies using their classrooms to expand mind share and view technology uncritically as some sort of magic nothing will change.
Lots of kids have to present their school projects etc using powerpoint or similar.