Matthew Carpenter
I’m a 57-year-old high school IT teacher who’s been cruising the information superhighway since dial-up was the next big thing. With a "crusade" to show teens that tech existed before TikTok, I blend dad jokes from 1982 with lessons on memes, cloud storage, and app-hunting skills that rival Smokey’s pursuit of the Bandit.
My classroom rules echo iconic lines like “Bueller?... Bueller?” and “Life moves pretty fast,” reminding students that homework waits for no one—even when the Wi-Fi’s down. From floppy disks to firewalls, I’ve seen it all, and I still laugh when I say, “Don’t call me Shirley.”
With retirement on the horizon, I stay east bound and down, because, let’s face it, “We’ve got a long way to go and a short time to get there.”
