THING #6 CIRCLE OF THE WISE

Wow..the world is truly at our fingertips...and it's a little overwhelming!
I started out this activity by reading cool cat teacher's blog entry called How to create your Circle of the Wise. It was inspiring. The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are..C.S. Lewis
She mentioned the things that were her criteria for choosing to add someone into her circle of the wise. Among them were, good character, inspirational, responsibility, life-long learners, excellence, conversationalists...she said "You become like your circle".

She closed with the most thought provoking and inspiring question; "Let me ask you this: If you were able to read the writings of Abraham Lincoln, or C.S. Lewis, or Ghandi, or Dale Carnegie on a daily basis would you have done it? The are among you now. Find them and become transformed".

So it motivated me to go out and choose and re choose until I find my personal Circle of the Wise.

One I was especially impressed with was The Fisch Bowl by Karl Fisch. He had several articles I enjoyed and even a YouTube Video called Life=Risk that was so great I had to show my kids. Check it out it's short and encouraging.

Another article he wrote was about the ability to connect with others anywhere in the world in real time. He said that because of this it could virtually change the way we do almost everything. Because of that fact alone shouldn't that mean that schools need to help students learn how to do these things really, really well? I agree wholeheartedly. If nothing else this class is teaching us that we really need to step it up where our students are concerned.

On a funny note..I also read an article that google has a new feature available on your gmail account that you can enable to keep you from "drunk emailing" haha! During that questionable time if your reflexes are too slow, this feature will not allow you to "send" the email but will save it for later..in case you want to rethink your comments! Loved that!