An educator’s inbox is regularly crammed full with all sorts of things. Here’s a sample from this morning.
I try to use innovative teaching methods, but I don’t think I will be using the power of this particular innovation in my classroom.
Archive for January 4th, 2007
The power of what?
Thursday, January 4th, 2007There’s got to be a Monty Python joke in here somewhere …
Thursday, January 4th, 2007From (where else), the BBC:
Parrot’s oratory stuns scientists
The bird, a captive African grey called N’kisi, has a vocabulary of 950 words, and shows signs of a sense of humour.
He invents his own words and phrases if he is confronted with novel ideas with which his existing repertoire cannot cope – just as a human child would do.
I bet, though, that his plumage is nowhere near as beautiful as a Norwegian Blue’s …