The current conversation about children and the media is full of contradictions. We strive for the next generation to be digital natives so that they will be competitive in the global markets of tomorrow. This is most obvious in the new Common Core education standards, which asks that students begin to use “digital tools” in Kindergarten (W.K.6) and states that third graders should learn keyboarding skills (W.3.6) and how to use digital sources to locate information (W.3.8).