I was talking with my sisters recently about how we are raising our children in a completely different world than the one we grew up in. We arethe first (and only) generation of parents to straddle a life experience both with and without the internet and countless technology marvels. Our generation being the last with a low tech childhood and among the first of the truly high tech parents. Important to keep in mind when we help mold young minds daily- their reality is completely different than what most of us knew growing up.
So we were coming up with words/phrases that had little to no meaning just 15 year ago that are now commonplace. Please feel free to add any others you can think of!
Speaking of kids nowadays googling information they need, I remember having to learn how to use the school library's card catalog....those really long drawers that pulled out
Yesterday, a student asked me for another word for suspicious. The students at the school I work at are not allowed to use cell phones on school property. I directed the student to the bookshelf behind her which had a row of dictionaries and thesauruses. The student started at me wide eyed, asking "You want me to use a book?"
I read an interesting blog that pointed out that many classic Seinfeld episodes would not work with modern technology.
The one where they split up and get lost in a parking garage? The one where George gives the unemployment office Jerry's landline as the number for "Vandelay Industries"? The one where they keep missing each other at the movie theatre? All those plots are made obsolete in a world where everyone has a cell phone.
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Was talking about this very subject at work last night..... kids have no clue what you're talking about if you mention "taping a show" on tv.... everything is DVRed (or TIVOed) nowadays!
And "you sound like a broken record" is another totally foreign phrase to them -- the only "broken record" they know is when someone runs a race faster than anyone else has or scores more touchdowns or whatever!
Anyone else feel like Carson on Downton Abbey.... electricity, motorcars, toasters, telephones, "the wireless" (radio).... he rails against each and every advance in technology from a hundred years ago just like we do today!
I read an interesting blog that pointed out that many classic Seinfeld episodes would not work with modern technology.
The one where they split up and get lost in a parking garage? The one where George gives the unemployment office Jerry's landline as the number for "Vandelay Industries"? The one where they keep missing each other at the movie theatre? All those plots are made obsolete in a world where everyone has a cell phone.
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I know they still make them, but I can honestly say I have not seen one in years… several years.