How the other half lives

This week I learned the basics of both a PC and a Mac, such as creating or saving a folder. I’m a PC user so I was already familiar with most of those concepts but I am a brand new Mac user. A new thing I learned about a Mac is that when you open a file it doesn’t just pop open like on a PC, it saves it to the desktop, (which is annoying). One feature that I’ve never been comfortable using even on a PC was using the keyboard for shortcuts. It was always just easier to go “file, quit” than to memorize a bunch of keys. The knowledge I learned this week will be helpful in my future classroom obviously because without knowing the basics I wouldn’t be able to utilize all the resources a computer has to offer. And even though I don’t love Macs, you never know what kind of computers will be given to you for your classroom so I need to know how to use both.