Old School vs. New School
How times have changed. When my mother helped me with my elementary school homework projects, that meant getting out the encyclopedias, or buying me poster board and markers, or going to the used bookstore to buy National Geographics I could cut up (because we weren’t going to cut up OURS!).
With my boys it started in familiar territory. Get some boxes to color and shape into villages, dioramas, etc. Buy poster board and markers. Learn how to Google for pictures and try not to bring up anything pornographic (I promise we were only looking for pictures of Costa Rica’s tourist trade!).
My boys started creating PowerPoint presentations in middle school, my oldest son kept his International Baccalaureate journal online through a blog, and my middle son has already made three “movies” for Biology projects in his freshman year of high school using his video camera and online software to edit. I can only imagine what my daughter will be doing by the time she is in high school.
I can’t even imagine what my kids will have to do to help their kids with homework projects. Somehow I still think it will start with poster board and markers . . . but after that? The sky is not the limit anymore.
I frequently have no clue how I'm going to keep up with my kids once they're in school. AGH! PRESSURE! (kidding)
Power point presentations? Wow!
It's crazy what kids can do at that early an age!
I sometimes wonder how lost I would be as a student these days. Yay for mom saving the day with Windows Live Movie Maker!!
I can't believe how much things have changed over the past years. I can only imagine what my grandma must have thought about the changes that occurred since she was a kid. Yikes.
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I love playing around with Movie Maker. So much fun.
I wish we'd had the technology when I was a kid. I'm from the poster board and markers generation.
The technology that kids have access to now is so cool. I love PowerPoint presentations. Is all of it making them smarter? I guess.
Lee
Tossing It Out