(MILTON, Del.) - Those days of wasting computer class away playing games or surfing the net for leisure are long gone.
Kids at Milton Elementary School are learning to be the world's next generation of computer scientists.
"I believe that they need to use technology in a way that they're expressing and learning how to create things and produce," said computer science teacher, Sandy Coleman. "I don't want them be blindly consuming."
Blind consumption is definitely not the case in Ms. Coleman's class -- especially this week, which just happens to be computer science education week.
Her students are getting involved in code.org's initiative to get people worldwide to write an hour of code.
"It's actually pretty cool," third grade student, Rebekah Harmon said of the hour of code.
"I like most about it that you get to use your creativity and mind to do whatever you think you can," said Wiley Owen, who's also in third grade.
Tons of celebrities have thrown their support behind the hour of code, from President Obama to Ashton Kutcher. Ms. Coleman's class are of one of seven schools, out of 67,000 who registered, who won the opportunity to video chat with a celebrity.
In their case, it was R&B superstar Usher.
The chat was 30 minutes long and each of the seven schools involved got to ask one question to "The Voice" judge.
So Ms. Coleman says they had to make it good.
"Their question was, what does Usher think they need to learn in school to follow their dreams to be successful like he is."
And Usher was happy to answer. In brief he told the class of excited third graders to "be passionate about whatever you invest your time in."
It was a message they were pretty thankful to hear from a mega star.
"I feel really really lucky that we were one of the seven schools. "
That goes to show computer science can be really cool.