“We may not be able to change the whole world, but we can change the whole world for one person.”
Shaun Groves and his band of bloggers are returning from the Dominican Republic today. Take some time to learn what they’ve learned.
(What are other folks saying this weekend in 50 words or less?)
Shawn Groves writes:
“If my children grow up to be average Americans I’ll have failed them as a parent.”
he continues:
If they spend four hours a day watching other people live on a television screen. If they’re bored.
If they go to school to get a job so their kids can go to school so they can get a job so their kids can go to school…If they’re without purpose.
If they take more than they give and want more than they have. If they’re greedy.
If everyone in their prayers looks like them. If they’re unaware.
I’ve failed.
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This is a cool example of finding a way to make things work – when there’s not (many) other options available.
From USA Today:
John LeSieur is in the software business, so he took particular interest when computers seemed mostly useless to his 6-year-old grandson, Zackary. The boy has autism, and the whirlwind of options presented by PCs so confounded him that he threw the mouse in frustration.
LeSieur tried to find online tools that could guide autistic children around the Web, but he couldn’t find anything satisfactory. So he had one built, named it the Zac Browser For Autistic Children in honor of his grandson, and is making it available to anyone for free.
The browser is geared towards kids with autism but looks like it could be a good way for other kids to learn the web and computers as well.
Kara (in purple) plays with the children at a Chinese orphanage.