Technology Timeline

  • Textbooks

    Textbooks
    Textbooks have been apart of my education since first grade!
  • Slate

    Slate
    I used slates in 3rd grade to play math games.
  • Test Cards

    Test Cards
    I remember using test cards probably around 4th grade all the way up until I graduated high school!
  • Overhead Projector

    Overhead Projector
    Overhead Projectors were the coolest things to me! I asked my mom to buy me those overhead pens and I'd pretend I was a teacher and wrote on a home-made overhead projector to my "pretend class".
  • Calculator

    Calculator
    The first time I used a calculator was in 7th grade math. I remember being mad at my 6th grade teacher for not letting us use them because her math class was so hard!
  • Whiteboard

    Whiteboard
    My first year of Jr High all the teachers had white boards and I was so happy because I hated the sound of chalk screeching on the chalk boards in elementary.
  • Internet

    Internet
    Being able to use the internet at school was sweet! I remember in my 8th grade computer class I always tried to get my work done ASAP becasue if we had extra time we could play games on the internet.
  • Laptops

    Laptops
    Getting laptops was awesome because we could just stay in our own classroom and at our own desk, we didn't have to go to the library to use the computers, so convenient!
  • Cell Phone

    Cell Phone
    I received my first cell phone my sophomore year of high school, my parents had told me I wouldn't get one until I was 18 but I convinced them otherwise!
  • Flash Drive

    Flash Drive
    Flash Drives were so useful because if I didn't have time to print off an essay I could just bring my flashdrive to school and print it off there! I loved those.