It’s elementary, my dear parents

Kindergarteners and first-graders are now using technology to design things the way graphic designers, businesspeople, and scientists do,

USA TODAY reports in an article about small technophiles in Arizona. In one class in Tempe, first-graders “learn terms used in geometry by first shooting everyday shapes in the classroom and playground with digital cameras, then loading the pictures in PowerPoint presentations. It’s vocabulary without boring flash cards.” In Phoenix and Glendale, first-graders are designing PowerPoint presentations and digital greeting cards. As one school administrator put it, “in the land of technology, students are the natives and adults are the immigrants.” But we parents knew that! ;-)