When people talk about being on Facebook in college. I already had my Masters and had been working for many years when Facebook was launched, let alone when it became available widespread.
I was in law school when it was launched. My friend went to Yale and was the first to have it since she still had her email address. We were like, meh, we have Friendster.
Really? In 4th grade I had learned about the Challenger, the Kennedy assassination, Pearl Harbor, etc. I would expect a school to be teaching basic information about one of the most important events in US history.
Maybe I'm mixing my elementary school and middle school years up, but I don't remember having true history classes with heavier topics like that until middle school.
But then I also read the ce&p posts about kindergarteners reading chapter books and realize I have little basis for what is grade appropriate. I guess 8-9 years olds seem really little to be learning about terrorists flying planes into buildings to me.
Even if the child referenced in the OP's post don't know the specific and gory details of the event, someone that age should at least have been aware of what the 9/11 event represented.
I was in law school when it was launched. My friend went to Yale and was the first to have it since she still had her email address. We were like, meh, we have Friendster.
lol.
H and I met via Friendster
I had like 6 friends on Friendster. I was not Friendster popular.
My little brother (12 years younger than me) didn't know what a card catalogue was because all the libraries he uses have computerized databases of the books the library owns.
My brother went to the library a few years ago and asked where the card catalog was. The librarian told him they didn't use it anymore, they had computers. He was all, "I TOLD THEM SO, I TOLD THEM I DIDN'T NEED TO LEARN THE CARD CATALOG!!!!"
This reminds me of the first semester I went back to college. I broke out my box of multi-color floppy disks in the computer lab so I could work on a paper....but none of the computers had a floppy drive. I know people were laughing at me. I felt like I was back in junior high and I just started my period or something.
My little brother (12 years younger than me) didn't know what a card catalogue was because all the libraries he uses have computerized databases of the books the library owns.
My brother went to the library a few years ago and asked where the card catalog was. The librarian told him they didn't use it anymore, they had computers. He was all, "I TOLD THEM SO, I TOLD THEM I DIDN'T NEED TO LEARN THE CARD CATALOG!!!!"
When they give the law school tours at the beginning of the year, the 2Ls come through and point to our microfiche cabinets and tell the 1Ls that this is our card catalog. Then they point to the fiche reader and tell them that it is some prehistoric computer.