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Talking to my coworker April has opened my eyes to the different types of technology made back then.

Her experience in school was all of a blur. In the 1960s-1970s when she was born and in Elementary & Middle school, her memory can only pop up something called the Mimeograph Machine. I have never heard of such a thing.
Doing my own research, this machine allowed students to print ink onto white paper by putting it through a machine and turning a crank to squeeze it through.

By high school, April recalls having limited access to something called a Word Processor, which was the start of what we know as a computer. She really liked to use it because it was something different and she could learn from it. Although she never really got to use it, it helped a lot of students.

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20 years later, my mom was born in the year of 1980. This is when technology started to evolve and introduce students to new opportunities.

In Elementary & Middle school, her classes provided them with Calculators to be able to put in numbers and find solutions to their mathematical questions.
By this time as a child in Middle School, there was no internet so she had to walk to the library to do her research with books and newspapers. My mom has a memory of having the opportunity to play Oregon Trail and watch movies with a VCR through those big TVs rolled in on carts.

By High School, this is when Computers started to be introduced for limited spaces in public libraries and provided to students in typing and computer classes. But sometimes, computers were not available to her because everyone seemed to always take them when she needed them. Websites and the Internet were of course very limited but enough to where they were able to do some sort of research and some homework that involved typing with a keyboard.

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My little sister Erynn and I were born in the years 2000 & 2002, we share some of the same experiences as far as what we were provided and had access to in school.

In Elementary school, Erynn remembers messing with the configuration settings on the Smartboard. Which is a huge upgrade from having to write on white/chalkboards. Teachers had either overhead Projectors which have been around for a long time, or projectors that sat on a desk and had a camera that showed what a teacher was showing from the desk to a pull-down screen.
By Middle school, there were computers that students had access to, BUT only in the libraries and in a class that helped students learn how to type.

Fast forward to High School in 2020, we have a new form of the computer called the Laptop. Which is much more efficient and portable, so students were able to get laptops plugged into carts and each had their own to do work on. Students can also go to the library in their school and work on a computer there on their own time. Smartboards are more prominent in all schools in the 2020s from Elementary to High School.

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As far as computers and smartboards, Smartphones are a new and improved technology device that students and even teachers use to communicate and connect with others, I would say it is also prominent in schools.

Almost every kid now in the 2020s has a cellphone so their parents can get ahold of them if they need them.
Growing up I had a slide-up phone/flip-up phone by the age of 10, then I had a few years of communicating through an iPod when they were popular in 2014. By age 18, I got my first iPhone and upgraded from there. Kids now are automatically given an iPhone, which I think is a little unfair.

Although good for communication and connecting with others, phones can cause a distraction in school and are often asked to be put into pockets or back into backpacks during class time.

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Students from Elementary to High school have access and are given opportunities to do work, read, and play on the Chromebook when they are in class.

For regular school days and after-school programs for Elementary and Middle School, children are provided a Chromebook in "Computer Class" where they are able to either engage in educational videos or games. Believe it or not, there are a lot of educational games students like to play on, such as Minecraft, and when I was younger in Middle School, the website held many games called Cool Math.

For High School, teens are able to be responsible and take a Chromebook home to do their homework if they do have not access to one at home. Most families and their kids have access to computers/laptops, phones, and Tablets.

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Fast forward to 2023, I am a senior in college and this is my first time ever having access to and using an iPad. Especially one being used for my class to do my work. I use only computers when I complete my homework but being provided an iPad that I am able to take home and either choose between my computer or the iPad depending on apps needed to complete my work.

Students in college are also provided laptops as well, and a library where they are able to work in peace with computers provided to them.

In college classes, students are able to bring their own technology devices such as a laptop or their own iPad/Tablet to take notes and of course, do their homework right then and there.