An Incredible Opportunity Has Come My Way

This morning I was teaching Hebrew school. The principal had a guest, another principal, visiting from Israel. After school the principal invited the two fifth grade teachers into a meeting with the guest. Apparently they want to develop a relationship between the fifth grade in our two day a week, for a total of five hours, school and the Israeli school that is a regular school meeting six days a week. (In Israel Sunday is a regular day.) Fortunately, they want to use technology to faciliate this relationship. I'm thinking that we should use both emails and a wiki to facilitate this relationship. We could link pairs of students for emailing and use the wiki for general questions. It should be interesting.

Interestingly, the Israeli school is relatively impoverished. Many of the students' families immigrated from Ethiopia. Most of my students live relatively standards upper-middle class lives in Michigan. They should have a lot to learn from one another.