There are some amazing TED talks out there, just look at this success story. How can you make your school as much fun as this?
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There are some amazing TED talks out there, just look at this success story. How can you make your school as much fun as this?
Wow! Pretty remarkable!
Wow! That’s just lit up my blue touch paper.
What an amazing story!!! I found it great how the different ‘stores’ had such wonderful themes. I imagine just walking through them really inspired the children. Peg legs, Superhero Capes, with a wind machine for testing purposes! Time travelling! A truly awesome idea to begin with that has been developed into such a massive project. It is worth looking at the website for projects that have been made to complete the wish. http://www.onceuponaschool.org I even checked out Europe and the UK, Ireland, Sweden and Germany have all had projects!! My favourite part of this whole video was how the speaker described the hidden abilities that so many of the students had.
I does show you just how boring state schools are! I love the time travel one, that would be so cool for a history classroom!
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Dave Eggers started as my favorite author and has rapidly moved up there to one of my favorite human beings. The pirate store in San Francisco is a blast, too. I bought some great question word dice (who, what, where, when, why and how on their sides), and some body part dice that work great in classes. Argh for education, mateys!
This is just such a fabulous idea and the stores’ themes are really fantastic. It was super inspiring. They are so lucky to be in cities with lots of potential people to volunteer in professions that can really ‘rock’. Wonder if it could be adapted to areas with little or no resources…