As Shannon Altena’s kindergarten students sat in a lopsided circle on Monday morning, each eagerly waved his or her hand in air, hoping to be called on. 

“What’s the first thing we draw when we draw a picture of ourselves?” Altena asked. 

“The head!” answered one little girl as she hopped off the rug and to what appears at first glance to be a run-of-the-mill classroom whiteboard. As she “drew” with a stylus rather than a pen and her marking were generated by a computer, not ink, it became clear that this was no polished piece of particleboard.