Meme Passion Quilt
Monday, April 14th, 2008Thanks to Jose Picardo for tagging me on this inspiring idea first thought up by Miguel Guhlin whereby we post a photo showing what inspires us most about education - a kind of international passion quilt. Such a difficult choice, really - as a Moodler, it should be something cyber, or at least technological, but the one image that has really stayed with me has neither element - and yet I have used it in so many lessons in different contexts. My daughter took it during a 3 week stay in Mumbai in 2005; some children she saw on the streets who came running to her. It says so much: poverty; caring for one another; exploitation; joy in despair - not to mention the politics which so inspire my daughter.
(click for larger image) All very well we fortunates posting our blogs about the latest ICT gadgets; there is another world out there for whom such stuff is of little import. I tag the following five comrades:
