This is a map that grows and glows and becomes your navigation for the rest of the book.

Maybe they're Limeys and ain't got no cricket.

I saw it as a storytelling device that could connect readers all over the world.

This is a phonetic code, a mnemonic device that I use, that allows me to convert numbers into words.

The dog has become this safe social object that mediates an encounter that otherwise wouldn't happen.

What it means is if you give somebody a special tool, you make them feel valued, you show them that you actually care about what they going to do and it transforms with they do in return.

In contrast, this is an object, an ice cream scoop, the, the, the rather great ice cream scoop by the way, made by Zyliss I highly recommend it and this ice cream scoop is, is an object that clearly was made by humans.

And again, when we wanted to ask people to share love letters, we gave them a typewriter to work with, an unfamiliar tool that caused them to slow down and to share something different.

Thus, the use of a magnetic compass by the military for land navigation occurred sometime before 1044, but incontestable evidence for the use of the compass as a maritime navigational device did not appear until 1117.

And here's the thing that you need to get comfortable with when you've given the tool to acquire information to students, is that you have to be comfortable with this idea of allowing kids to fail as part of the learning process.