![]() My fifth grade teacher had a newly released iPhone that lacked any appending model number, but my classmates and I had flip-top and sliding-screen cell phones, if any devices at all. Smartphones weren’t quite a thing yet, mind you. Space Invaders was a mainstay, and in fifth grade we would take turns playing Cube Runner and other Flash games during lunch in our classroom that by then had three desktops in the back. ![]() World of Sand, a sort of chemistry sim where pixelated elements pour in from the top of the screen and interact with one another in the petri dish of your desktop window, was a favorite. Then, in my first few numerical grades of elementary school, computer games became something we played after school. There were educational games and a lot of coloring (I loved that). What I did on that first desktop I mostly can’t remember. I used my first school computer in kindergarten, and individual desktops would remain a standard feature in my classrooms. Sure, you should be doing homework, but Carmen Sandiego is on the loose! ![]() Computer Lab Week is our ode to the classic “school” games, like Oregon Trail and Number Munchers, that kept us from being productive. ![]()
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