reporter: owen and his classmates skype with another third grade class more than 20,000 miles away in westvilleg one out of their mouths, do they speak english in illinois? if we could talk to half of the states in a year and have conversations, what a gift that would be. to be able to give that to them. thank you very much for coming tonight. >> reporter: because computers are playing a bigger role in homework, mrs. hime and another third grade teacher host technology nights to introduce parents to the software. >> your children are digital natives, we're the digital aliens because we were learning when this was coming in to play. >> right click. >> reporter: though owen's mom is computer safby, there's still a learning curve to get her on the same page with his homework assignments. >> as he's learning, i'm learn, which is a good thing. >> sometimes you don't know that stuff. maybe you forgot about it and what we're doing you'll know it again. >> exactly, yeah. we're learning together again. that's right. >> when you done with that, click into the blog. >> reporter: caylee helps owen with his