a friend of mine got a CASIO watch with an integrated IR emitter and would always cause havoc when the TV was out
I was your friend
We still are!
Those remote control watches were actually banned at the schools I went to as a kid. Along with other calculator watches, couldn’t have one of those either. ‘Because you need to know math and won’t always have a calculator on you when you grow up’ 😂
I think they also eventually caught on with the technology and banned them in my school… And that quote with the calculator in your pocket sounds also familiar xD
I’m currently doing landscaping work around the house and I use the voice assistant all the time to calculate surfaces and volumes, it’s so nice compared to pressing buttons or a touchscreen with dirty gloves. My younger self would be so excited!
While I’m not fundamentally opposed to kids learning basic math, even at that time it was used (think 1990-1996) it was a bullshit argument to ban them. After all, they were already cheap enough that a kid could have one on their wrist!
Heck, you can now buy them for less than a dollar on Aliexpress. But why would you, since literally every smartphone has one built in. It was silly to ban them.
“Hey, second-graders, it’s time to watch All Dogs Go To Heaven! Just in case your parents forgot to traumatize you.”
Shit, dawg. Watched The Secret of Nihm.
My teacher in junior high threw on Jerry Maguire briefly because we all remember it as a cute romcom with fun catch phrases. We all forget it starts with Tom Cruise going to pound town.
Science rules!!!
Inertia is a property of matter
We gonna watch the Salmon episode of Magic School Bus.
Teach these little shits a lesson!
When I was a kid, my teachers brought this out when it was time to watch Voyage of the Mimi.
Still have the theme song stuck in my head to this day. Good times. The 90s was a great decade, which was definitely only 10 years ago because the 80s was 20 years ago. No need to check my math on that.
If any young’ns read this, how do they do this nowadays in school?
Most teachers have a projector or television mounted in their rooms that are connected to either their computer or iPad.
we got these things now
(note that the school didn’t get to decide where the money went so we still have no soap dispensers in some of the bathrooms but now have 30+ $5,000 screens that do the same thing a projector did. Thank you, Federal government)I had this in high school
That’s about what I was imagining. Sure beats wheeling in a big-ass CRT!
I’m a teacher too and we use short throw projectors at our school which I feel might be more common than these smart board tv things.
Flat screen tv
We didn’t appreciate Bill Nye enough as kids.
I remember when I was 8ish the daycare I went to wheeled out the TV to put in some cartoon so the workers go fuck off and smoke crack or whatever. The cartoon they picked was Water Ship Down. It was wild too because everytime they came Iback to check on us nothing fucked up was going on so we saw the whole movie. A girl said the movie was scary and that was the only feed back they got.
Yes?
For me, this cart always had MathNet.
OMG I loved that show! I haven’t thought about that in 25 years at least!
Why is the image AI-generated? Legit, how difficult is it to find a picture of a TV cart?
I upscaled it.
He was cool, but I still proffered Mr.Wizard.
*bonus: my man, putting kids in their place: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iD4TUhwAhw
Beakman’s World!
I remember being annoyed by an episode of Mr.Wizard where he showed chemical reaction, but wouldn’t explain it. Like, why even bother doing that on a science show?
Beakman’s episode on teeth lives on my mind rent free.
That VCR looks too modern for this to be accurate