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That’s an effective term: hard-wired. Especially in this day and age when cyberspace is king, the digital atmosphere rules the world, and electronics electrify — you can’t miss a beat with the term ‘hard-wired.’ Especially when it involves our children.

Think about education for a moment. How has it changed? Sure, the kids still go to school like they always do; they even have backpacks still. But look even closer and think back to how it was when you were a kid.

Chalkboards were black, textbooks were in hardcover — usually — and you had to do all your math in your head and with paper and pencil. That was basically, in a nutshell, how it worked.

Nowadays, though, take another good look in these schools all over the nation. What do you see? Whiteboards! Markers! Calculators! Let’s go further with it and say things like, umm, computers! That’s an easy one right there.

Or how about tablet technology? iPods, iPads, Zunes, and other such devices — these aspects are the wave of the future when it comes to education. Forget the old, heavy textbooks. Try reading a school e-book on a Barnes & Noble Nook or an Amazon Kindle. Times have changed, indeed.

Moreover, you now have online schools available. Kids can actually attend class — in cyberspace! Seriously? That’s re

ally possible? Home schooling has been revolutionized in so many ways, too many to count, all because of the internet.

You can say that our kids are now “hard-wired” for success and not have it mean anything metaphorical. It’s literal. It’s here. It’s now. Join the new technological revolution.