"The days of using the textbook and going and looking something up in an encyclopedia is over," said Buckeye Local Schools Superintendent Mark Miller.

Classrooms are now equipped with digital whiteboards and laptop computers.

"More and more you see kids using technology. They are on Facebook, they are on Myspace," said Miller.

Right now there are four teachers at Buckeye Local High School who have learned to use the new technology and can teach students. Kathy Yocum is one of those teachers, and she is also the one who wrote up the grant.

"The students need to know how to compete in today's world, and we need to give them the skills to be able to compete when they get out of school," said Yocum.

Yocum said schools have to put the technology in the hands of the students to develop their 21st century skills.

"We live in a computer generation, and they really respond to that type of environment. That's the way of the future, and that's the way Buckeye Local is moving toward," said Miller.

One of the requirements of the grant is to give a presentation at the state technology conference in Columbus, which will be held on Feb. 2. The Buckeye Local teachers will share what they have learned and what they are doing inside the classroom. They hope by next year to have every teacher at Buckeye Local involved along with other teachers in their district.