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Kids eat technology for breakfast
Kids these days eat tech tools like bacon and eggs.
Some kids at Kings High School recently earned the school over $1,000 by creating the winning one-minute video in the 2008 Fox19 Student Video Challenge. And the students were in the process of learning a video editing program while creating the winning video. Read the story in the Dec. 4 Little Miami/Kings edition The Pulse-Journal.
The KHS digital media arts class is involved in another student video challenge, according to the school’s Web page. (I’ll post a link to the challenge as soon as I find it.)
It seems like kids are born with a computer mouse in hand. Many of today’s high school students easily use social networking sites to post videos, blogs and photos of them and their friends.
Read more after the jump.
It’s all fun and games now, but tech-savvy teens can earn big bucks in the long run.
In January, I wrote a feature article on a Mason High School junior who started a business on her home computer.
Kristin Wood uses graphic design skills to spell out her customers’ names — or whatever else they’d like to spell — with Ohio State University’s marching band and stadium in the background. The images are then printed onto posters, banners, calendars, greeting cards and other items.
She admitted to starting out with a basic knowledge of graphic arts, and learned additional skills as she went along.
Kristin said Great College Gifts this week received more than 200 orders in three days!
What do you think schools could do to help kids build on what they already know about computers? I want YOUR input!
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