Not only that, but expectations are lower so they are constantly impressing themselves and others. They do more with less then anyone expects. The explosion of kids on the net generating content is amazing. I've already had mail from junior high kids, with their own home pages, who are planning on attending my high school next year. The team I have working on the schools web pages are mostly freshmen.
Web technology is so easy to use that kids are rushing to use it.
We have multimedia classes that are overflowing. Kids want to use sound and pictures and new tools make this easy. Well, we have high school students, some of whom really couldn't program out of a paper bag, creating such games. And not text only by any means. Audio and video are standard.