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No popcorn button

March 27, 2007 · 1 Comment

An unintentional parable.

Two honors students visited yesterday.  They asked to use the library microwave to make a bag of popcorn for their class.  We sent them to the little kitchen area in the back.

We heard no popping.  We smelled no butter.  Five minutes later the girls emerged.  “There’s no popcorn button,” they complained. 

We shared our own wisdom.  “Sometimes in life, there is no popcorn button.” 

Categories: About learning · Information fluency

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  •   Anonymous // Apr 16th 2007 at 10:16 am

    I put on a “record” of Native American music for my K class a few years ago. When I took the record out of the jacket to place it on the record player a student said, “That’s a BIG CD!”

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