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In kindergarten, my teacher would take our class to the computer lab to play The Oregon Trail. Many of us died of dysentery. -
In 4th grade GATE, I learned how to use Paint. I remember drawing with the marker, spray can, and eraser. I also opened, resized, and rotated stock photos. -
In high school, I started using the internet to do research. My teachers told my classmates and me not to use Wikipedia. -
I've always struggled with reading long texts. When assigned book reports, I'd use SparkNotes to read summaries instead of reading the actual books. -
The popular graphing calculator in the early 2000s was the TI-84+. I used a hand-me-down Sharp that was missing a column of pixels. My Pre-Calculus teacher stressed the importance of knowing what our calculators could and could not do. For example, I learned that my calculator would not show me where asymptotes and holes in graphs are, which made me value the algebra more.