Do you know a young person?
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What's wrong with choosing him? He invented jazz.
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Do you know a young person?
Ask them what famous people they've heard of from before 1950 and let me know.
For example: Einstein? Marie Curie? Cleopatra? Donatello? da Vinci? Isaac Newton? Queen Victoria? Elizabeth I? Henry VIII? William Tell? Robin Hood?
Ask them, and let me know ...
(PS: Boosts would be welcome to get this outside my bubble ... TIA)
@ColinTheMathmo as long as they don’t ask me about famous
Musicians after 2000 -
@ColinTheMathmo as long as they don’t ask me about famous
Musicians after 2000 -
Do you know a young person?
Ask them what famous people they've heard of from before 1950 and let me know.
For example: Einstein? Marie Curie? Cleopatra? Donatello? da Vinci? Isaac Newton? Queen Victoria? Elizabeth I? Henry VIII? William Tell? Robin Hood?
Ask them, and let me know ...
(PS: Boosts would be welcome to get this outside my bubble ... TIA)
@ColinTheMathmo I might ask my children, they were born after 2000. Will take some time. BTW, I'm from the Netherlands.
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What's wrong with choosing him? He invented jazz.
@TrueNorthSpice Nothing! I'm just shocked that a youngster would know them.
Also impressed and pleased.
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Other potential answers:
Raphael, Archimedes, Pythagoras, Joan of Arc, Nefertiti, Tutankhamun, Pocahontas ...
I can guess, but I'd like to know what answers younger people come up with.
Who have they heard of?
Florence Nightingale?
Alan Turing?
Clara Schumann?
@ColinTheMathmo my 8 yo grand kid Babe Ruth
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@ColinTheMathmo I am pretty sure my six year old hasn't heard of most of these people... yet
@Scmbradley Has your six-year-old heard of *any* "old famous" people?
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@TrueNorthSpice Nothing! I'm just shocked that a youngster would know them.
Also impressed and pleased.
@ColinTheMathmo
yeah, I felt the same.(sorry, the 'weary' emoji threw me 'off'...I misunderstood your reaction. Thanks for clarifying)
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Other potential answers:
Raphael, Archimedes, Pythagoras, Joan of Arc, Nefertiti, Tutankhamun, Pocahontas ...
I can guess, but I'd like to know what answers younger people come up with.
Who have they heard of?
Florence Nightingale?
Alan Turing?
Clara Schumann?
Michelangelo?
Rodin?
Turner?
Ramanujan? -
Michelangelo?
Rodin?
Turner?
Ramanujan?@ColinTheMathmo
Hey, the rest of us without kid contact could speculate a lot, too, but you told us not to. -
@ColinTheMathmo
yeah, I felt the same.(sorry, the 'weary' emoji threw me 'off'...I misunderstood your reaction. Thanks for clarifying)
@TrueNorthSpice That's not intended to be a "Weary" emoji ... it's a "Shocked Kitty"
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@ColinTheMathmo
Hey, the rest of us without kid contact could speculate a lot, too, but you told us not to.@dougmerritt Feel free to speculate about what kids might know. Just mark it as such.
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Do you know a young person?
Ask them what famous people they've heard of from before 1950 and let me know.
For example: Einstein? Marie Curie? Cleopatra? Donatello? da Vinci? Isaac Newton? Queen Victoria? Elizabeth I? Henry VIII? William Tell? Robin Hood?
Ask them, and let me know ...
(PS: Boosts would be welcome to get this outside my bubble ... TIA)
@ColinTheMathmo I'll see if I can get a few names out of my teen tomorrow. (There are a few I know she knows though. At least two Dutch painters - Rembrandt and van Gogh.)
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@Scmbradley Has your six-year-old heard of *any* "old famous" people?
@ColinTheMathmo he knows about queen Victoria. He might have heard of Darwin? I'll ask him tomorrow who he knows about from olden times.
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@TrueNorthSpice That's not intended to be a "Weary" emoji ... it's a "Shocked Kitty"
At first I thought it was a shocked cat- looking at it, that makes sense, right?!
But my cursor happened to touch it and "weary cat" popped up---the same just now occurred when I went back and tried again.
Something is "off kilter" in Fediverse...or my computer.....
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Michelangelo?
Rodin?
Turner?
Ramanujan?Margot Fonteyn?
Rudolf Nureyev?
Mikhail Baryshnikov?
Charlie Chaplin?
Fred Astaire?
Ginger Rogers?
Cary Grant?
Marilyn Monroe?Who have kids heard of?
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Margot Fonteyn?
Rudolf Nureyev?
Mikhail Baryshnikov?
Charlie Chaplin?
Fred Astaire?
Ginger Rogers?
Cary Grant?
Marilyn Monroe?Who have kids heard of?
@ColinTheMathmo
*I* don't know who Margot Fonteyn is. (the others are as familiar as expected). -
Do you know a young person?
Ask them what famous people they've heard of from before 1950 and let me know.
For example: Einstein? Marie Curie? Cleopatra? Donatello? da Vinci? Isaac Newton? Queen Victoria? Elizabeth I? Henry VIII? William Tell? Robin Hood?
Ask them, and let me know ...
(PS: Boosts would be welcome to get this outside my bubble ... TIA)
@ColinTheMathmo I used to set an exercise to sort a variety of events into chronological order. They would mostly be events in the history of computing, but with a few other bits and pieces, to keep people grounded. The latter tended to be a mixture of incidents of social progress and incidents of appalling and unaccounted-for evil.
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@ColinTheMathmo I used to set an exercise to sort a variety of events into chronological order. They would mostly be events in the history of computing, but with a few other bits and pieces, to keep people grounded. The latter tended to be a mixture of incidents of social progress and incidents of appalling and unaccounted-for evil.
@pigworker I'd be interested to see your list(s).
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Do you know a young person?
Ask them what famous people they've heard of from before 1950 and let me know.
For example: Einstein? Marie Curie? Cleopatra? Donatello? da Vinci? Isaac Newton? Queen Victoria? Elizabeth I? Henry VIII? William Tell? Robin Hood?
Ask them, and let me know ...
(PS: Boosts would be welcome to get this outside my bubble ... TIA)
@ColinTheMathmo I spend a lot of time talking to my kids about people from before 1950, so I think they're ok.
My son is doing a biography report on Sir Nigel Gressley, the designer of the Flying Scotsman, at school (year 3) so it naturally led on to Isambard Kingdom Brunel.
Between school and home, I reckon they're across it
