How Does the Computer Age Impact Homeschooled Children?

I just have to ask because now that my kids are temporarily in a brick and mortar school I see just how much computer-based learning public schools incorporate into their curriculum. Not just work done online, but actual computer classes on how to do things like create and save files, create a PowerPoint presentation and less suprising, how to create Microsoft Word documents. This at the tender age of 7. Yes, you heard me right.

Last Spring my then 7 year-old son, who was experiencing his very first semester in a public school gave us a PowerPoint presentation at our first parent-teacher conference. This was a presentation he created. Very cool, but a bit scary too! lol I mean, would I have even thought to teach him that at home? I'm glad we had that experience as it has woke me up to the fact that things have changed considerably since I was his age some 30 years ago. Wow, have things changed. Something tells me in just a year or two my kids will be teaching me all about the workings of my computer and any program I might care to operate.

So, I just wonder what homeschoolers might be doing to keep up in the area of technology? I hadn't given it much thought until just recently. We really need to be sure our children (those homeschooled) can compete with those in the brick and mortar schools when they're together in the same job market one day.

I don't really have advice for homeschoolers... just questions I guess! lol I would like to research this through my readers, so I might have a good starting point when I bring my kids back home in a couple years. I'm very interested to hear from everyone! Please share!