That would put you around ~87, and 14 years old in 2001. Google came out in late 1998 I think. So it really isn’t all that hard to believe there was slow adoption in some areas, and 3 years I’m not even sure if I’d call it slow when it comes to school systems and such. In that time period schools were just acquiring computers and setting up labs/figuring out how to introduce them into curriculums. They knew typing was going to be needed for all of the students but most didn’t have the budgets to bring about all the changes they wanted. I think I had 2 or 3 essays in 1998 that we were brought to the lab of about 15 computers and had to type and print them out to turn in. They had 1 lab they set up and they rotated half the class went in the morning, half in the afternoon. Then they rotated which class/grade needed had access to make sure everyone grade 3-5 had access a couple times a year.
I was born in 89, so a couple years behind you. By the time we got to middle school though we had a required typing course with those black covers over the keyboards to force all the kids to type without looking. Think that was 6th grade for me
I am an '87 model, class of 2005, 8th grade was 2000-2001 for me. 8th grade for me was the only year I did at a brand new middle school; the school was for 6-8 and it opened my 8th grade year. They made a big thing about computers, and we all got at least some training in MS Works. Yeah. I took an elective class instead of like, Spanish or something that was more training in formatting shit like memos…I’ve never written a “memo” in my fucking life, memos were repealed when I was in college, you use email or teams or something now. And I took a course my freshman year of high school about the same thing.
I swear there were like 5 kinds of memos that were formatted differently we were supposed to know the differences between. That class was like British table manners. “If the starter course includes a meat dish, hold your starter fork without using your thumb or smallest finger, while crossing your ankles with your left in front of right on most days and right in front of left on Tuesdays and the Queen’s birthday.” “For an inter-departmental memo, single space and hanging intent, with the address of the company left justified and the contact information of the memo’s originator right justified. But for an intra-department memo…” That’s where I was on 9/11, in that classroom. I didn’t learn much about typing in there, I learned how to type on MSN messenger hitting on girls.
That would put you around ~87, and 14 years old in 2001. Google came out in late 1998 I think. So it really isn’t all that hard to believe there was slow adoption in some areas, and 3 years I’m not even sure if I’d call it slow when it comes to school systems and such. In that time period schools were just acquiring computers and setting up labs/figuring out how to introduce them into curriculums. They knew typing was going to be needed for all of the students but most didn’t have the budgets to bring about all the changes they wanted. I think I had 2 or 3 essays in 1998 that we were brought to the lab of about 15 computers and had to type and print them out to turn in. They had 1 lab they set up and they rotated half the class went in the morning, half in the afternoon. Then they rotated which class/grade needed had access to make sure everyone grade 3-5 had access a couple times a year.
I was born in 89, so a couple years behind you. By the time we got to middle school though we had a required typing course with those black covers over the keyboards to force all the kids to type without looking. Think that was 6th grade for me
I am an '87 model, class of 2005, 8th grade was 2000-2001 for me. 8th grade for me was the only year I did at a brand new middle school; the school was for 6-8 and it opened my 8th grade year. They made a big thing about computers, and we all got at least some training in MS Works. Yeah. I took an elective class instead of like, Spanish or something that was more training in formatting shit like memos…I’ve never written a “memo” in my fucking life, memos were repealed when I was in college, you use email or teams or something now. And I took a course my freshman year of high school about the same thing.
I swear there were like 5 kinds of memos that were formatted differently we were supposed to know the differences between. That class was like British table manners. “If the starter course includes a meat dish, hold your starter fork without using your thumb or smallest finger, while crossing your ankles with your left in front of right on most days and right in front of left on Tuesdays and the Queen’s birthday.” “For an inter-departmental memo, single space and hanging intent, with the address of the company left justified and the contact information of the memo’s originator right justified. But for an intra-department memo…” That’s where I was on 9/11, in that classroom. I didn’t learn much about typing in there, I learned how to type on MSN messenger hitting on girls.