Students have been fascinated by the Malaysian flight missing for over a week. I read about the Tomnod site that allows people around the globe to view satellite images of the area. They want to use crowdsourcing to find the missing 777.
It was the easiest day of teaching ever - the students were glued to the images and asked question after question about the flight, satellites, and geography. Alas, nothing was found, but they are all pretty familiar with the geography of SE Asia.
They did not seem too familiar with crowdsourcing (I was surprised that I was familiar with a tech term they did not know) but some have heard of Kickstarter. I told them it was like teachers passing out papers to students and having each student grade a couple so the teacher does not have to grade them all. They understood that.
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