[TIPS] check out THIS Google Earth Interface

http://www.perceptivepixel.com/

Oh my… I’m SO worried that we’re not even CLOSE to what we should be doing with technology in schools. Think about how many folks are content to assign PowerPoints as assignments or who believe that the ultimate in a technology lesson is a scavenger hunt. Watch that video and ask yourself the question, “What else can I be doing to get my students prepared for what’s coming?” No, I KNOW that we can’t prepare for the unknown. We can’t teach them the specific skills that they will need. But, we CAN help them to use tools that are personal learning tools. We CAN help them to learn to search beyond the basic level of searching. We CAN help to excite them about the tools they now have that will let them gather, organize, and process some of the exabytes (billions of gigabytes) of new information every year. This video is showing an amazing interface with Google earth. Yet, in some of our districts Google Earth is blocked. Why isn’t that criminal interference with the education of every kid in that district?

Oh my… SO much work to do…..