Changing Educational Paradigms

LOVE this presentation by Sir Ken Robinson. The animation from RSA adds a lot to the words. I wish I could get my notebooks to look that good. Enjoy!

Kids Reading Stories

Discovered a wonderful site for kids, especially those learning to read, call Smories. It's a page full of children reading children's stories directly in to the camera. And I love the story of how the idea was born:

We got the idea for smories.com during an extremely long journey in a very dirty Land Rover from the Kalahari desert in Botswana to Cape Town in South Africa... (read the rest of the story here)

Here's one of my favorite stories, Stone Soup.

The Importance of WHY

Wonderful TED video, Simon Sinek: How great leaders inspire action, that explains the importance of WHY.