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Elsa and Anna ice skating Angry Birds squashing pigs robots painting a path it may look like kids play but students at westborough middle school are writing lines of computer code and they probably don't even realize it a lot of kids like technology and they only use technology to play in this way they can actually use technology to learn the students are joining millions of others around the world during this computer science education week in an hour of code in one hour you learn that programming a computer creating technology is easy it's fun and even if you're eight years old you can enjoy it and could perhaps build the skills kids will need to snag future high tech jobs you want to make sure that our kids are ready for the futures our kids can actually go ahead and have these high paying jobs 10 years from now as part of the event celebrities such as Ashton Kutcher what I really wish that I had learned how to code and twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey are participating in live video classroom chats even President Obama tried his hand at coding and for other grown-ups Apple is holding workshops at its stores but the hour of code isn't just about one hour of one week organizers are hoping it has a more lasting effect by motivating schools to change what they teach in computer classes to your traditional computer class that teaches you just how to use technology is increasingly irrelevant and the computer programming computer science how to create technology that's where we need to be teaching our kids to participate an hour of code visit code.org in San Francisco I'm Kara Tsuboi cnet.com for CBS News