JUL312009

JUL312009, originally uploaded by colemama.

Watching this ibis try to determine what use this forked find might be was absolutely hilarious! He picked it up and tried to manipulate it almost as if he knew how it was used by the human folks - it dropped and he picked it up again and again...finally succombing to the likelihood that it wasn't useful to him! Or perhaps he was just playing?!?!?

Have you observed our students doing some of the same - hungry for knowledge and hoping to access the effective tools to help them learn? Many times our educational institutions offer only those tools with which they are familiar (i.e., paper, pencil, 'sit and get', tests) rather than trying to figure out what our students really need -
* not for just for today's world, but for tomorrow's world....
* not because we've always done it that way, but because it makes sense for addressing needs of the future...
* and not for the sake of the tool itself, but for using the tool for the appropriate function!

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