Thursday, September 16, 2010

Population Growth Explained with IKEA Boxes




This video was from the site www.gapminder.com. I found it interesting to listen to Hans Rosling talk about how population growth will affect the next forty years.

Thursday, September 9, 2010

Learn to Change, Change to Learn



This short video gives some information about a new set of literacy that is becoming more imporant than the literacies that are being taught in today's schools. As an educator this is a challenge to change how we approach lessons every single day. For parents, it is a way for you to push for an educational system that teaches critical thinking skills and other 21st century skills.