My sister is a teacher and tells me the same. The kids are actually pretty clueless these days, when me and my peers were teenagers, we were much more tech-savvy than the teens today.
I think they've gone beyond tech-savvy to tech-trusting; so comfortable with the notion that the Internet is the source of wisdom that they don't apply their critical thinking to that domain.
At work it was common to see even university graduates pasting-in code from the first search result.
