The Verge has a post making the observation that the Gen Z as a group do not use files and folders the way past have done. The last paragraph highlights the change.

His advice to fellow educators: Get ready. “This is not gonna go away,” he says. “You’re not gonna go back to the way things were. You have to accept it. The sooner that you accept that things change, the better.”

What is the change? Many more students do not think like paper processes which has files and folders. The concept of a file cabinet is obsolete like a fax machine.

Professors have a hard time with this issue.

It’s a difficult concept to get across, though. Directory structure isn’t just unintuitive to students — it’s so intuitive to professors that they have difficulty figuring out how to explain it. “Those of us who have been around a while know what a file is, but I was at a bit of a loss to explain it,”

There are so many things that Gen Z does differently than the older people and getting Gen Z to do things the way things have always been done will just get harder.