The Kids of Power Point

The Boston Globe reports:

Shuttling between the Internet and his computer slide show, Manuel Duarte put the finishing touches on his research project. He outlined his main findings in bullet points, and dragged images and audio files from the Web to liven things up.

Duarte wasn’t polishing his PowerPoint presentation for a boardroom sales pitch; it was for his fourth-grade class in Brockton.

PowerPoint — once the staple of business conferences and corporate meetings — is lending a high-tech edge to grade-school classrooms across the state. The days of construction paper and poster board projects have been replaced by computer-generated images and laser pointers.

The use of the popular Microsoft slide-show program often starts as early as second grade, and can be found in urban school systems such as Brockton and Boston as well as suburban districts.

Eventually who'll need a bricks and mortar classroom?