Students take distance learning courses while a teacher checks in at a Department of Defense Education Activity school. DoDEA will open the “doors” of its new virtual high school in the next school year. DoDEA photo

By Elaine Wilson, AFPS
Oct. 30, 2009
Elaine.wilson@dma.mil

I’m admittedly a bit behind the technology power curve. I grew up in the pre-Internet, typewriter-using, Atari Pong days when we were lucky if we had seven TV channels to watch.

Embarrassingly enough, my kids had to mentor me through the fine art of video gaming and I’m still in awe at how they learned to navigate the Internet before they could even read.

So, as a member of the comparatively Flintstone-like technology age, I’m always impressed when I hear of schools instilling high-tech lessons at an early age.
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