And They Say Classrooms are for Learning?

One of the kids in my class had this story to tell me about his evening last night:

"I was on MSN and someone from China popped up, but they were typing in Chinese and I didn't get it. So I went online and found an Chinese to English translator and copied and pasted their posts into it and I figured out what they were saying. Then I wrote what I wanted to say, got it translated into Chinese and then pasted it into MSN. It was a pretty cool night."

A million lessons about connected kids, a flattening world, new online free technologies, and the changing role of teachers come to mind from this story. But I think I'll leave it alone.

It speaks for itself.

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