Only 5% of the US population is capable enough to "schedule a meeting room in a scheduling application, using information contained in several email messages."
Remember in the 90s, when teens were more tech savvy than adults, and everyone assumed that the savviest would just keep getting younger? Now it's 2017, and the people who were teens in the 90s are the most tech savvy generation and probably will be until they die.
Kids don't grow up with computers any more, they grow up with iPhones. If it's possible to learn to code on an iPhone, it's despite Apple's best efforts.
@mogwai_poet As a science/stats lecturer, I have definitely noticed that the "digital native" idea is BS. Students aren't innately better at using Word, or using a computer to solve a problem with code, they don't have better information literacy or the ability to use databases to find what they want. It's just that they use their phones/laptops a lot. And yeah they're allowed to use phones the way our grandparents used newspapers/letters. But that doesn't teach computing skills.