Sophomore shenanigans:
Student 1: Do you have pictures of yourself when you were young? Like did they have cameras then?
Me: Seriously?
Student 2: I’d like to see those pictures, to be honest.
Student 3: Did he really ask if there were cameras when you were growing up? You should find one and edit it to look like pictures did when cameras were first invented, just to mess with him.
With as much access to information students have, one would think they would know things like a minor history of cameras. You would, however, be wrong. For all the information they have at their fingertips, they seem to know less. And this leads to some of the wildest comments.
They also do not have a great concept on age and decades. Being born in the 1900s, I might as well tell them I had a pet dinosaur. While my own child is entering her senior year of high school, I am still older than many of my student’s parents. In fact, one student informed me her grandma was my age. Hmm. Nice. Love that for us.
To be clear, I have never encountered a dinosaur. Yes, there were cameras when I was growing up. However, they were not digital, and you could not see the pictures you took as soon as you took them. No friends, you had to first load the film into the camera. If the film wasn’t loaded correctly, all those pictures you thought you were taking actually wouldn’t exist. Then, film had to be taken to be developed. Did we get good pictures? Sometimes. And sometimes, not so much. It took skill and patience, and knowing how to actually do more than point and click.
Are there pictures of me as a high school student? Yes. Will my students see those. Nope. It’s highly doubtful. A student did suggest that I “scroll through my social media and just find one. The look on their faces when I told them there were no cell phones or social media when I was growing up. We thought we were fancy if we had a cordless phone in the house! The kids just don’t know.
I’m going to go take my dinosaur for a walk now, I hear walking is good for us old people.
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