http://www.beavton.k12.or.us/jacob_wismer/leahy/2007/proverbs/proverbs.htm

I just HAD to share this VERY funny list of twisted proverbs. The kids, 5th graders, had to come up with a new twist to an old proverb. Some are hysterical.  Like this one: "Children should be seen and not smelled." ROFL!! Or the wise, "A miss is as good as a Mrs." Or, "You can't teach an old dog long division."

What fun he must have had reading those, don't you think?

MANY thanks to Ann Fife for sharing this one with me just now in email: http://www.acu.edu/technology/mobilelearning/students/videos/connected.html

WOW!

But beyond the wow factor, think how remarkable it is to have all those devices (phone, mp3 player, photo album, internet, and more) in ONE device. Project that out another ten years. Fifteen. Twenty five years out. The wondrous things we'll be able to do.

Just not in public schools. :-/

http://blog.discoveryeducation.com/pennsylvania/2008/07/30/the-world-is-flat-audio-giveaway/

TEN thousand thank you's this time to.. yes, Sue Sheffer again, for sharing this one with me. She sent it to me from her Google Reader.

ACT NOW! Click the link in the article above to sign up for it. It's a free audio book version of Thomas Friedman's "The World Is Flat." If you've not yet read it, here's your chance to have it read TO you.

WOW!

Again, a thousand thanks to Sue Sheffer for just now sharing this with me via email.

http://commoncraft.com/election

Another commoncraft winner. Elections in Plain English. Send this to every teacher you know who studies this with his/her students.

http://www.perceptivepixel.com/

Oh my… I’m SO worried that we’re not even CLOSE to what we should be doing with technology in schools. Think about how many folks are content to assign PowerPoints as assignments or who believe that the ultimate in a technology lesson is a scavenger hunt. Watch that video and ask yourself the question, “What else can I be doing to get my students prepared for what’s coming?” No, I KNOW that we can’t prepare for the unknown. We can’t teach them the specific skills that they will need. But, we CAN help them to use tools that are personal learning tools. We CAN help them to learn to search beyond the basic level of searching. We CAN help to excite them about the tools they now have that will let them gather, organize, and process some of the exabytes (billions of gigabytes) of new information every year. This video is showing an amazing interface with Google earth. Yet, in some of our districts Google Earth is blocked. Why isn’t that criminal interference with the education of every kid in that district?

Oh my… SO much work to do…..