The Water Buffalo Movie

Question: What should we teach our students in a language class? How should we teach them? How can IT help us to achieve our goals?

I came across the 4 GENERATIONS: The Water Buffalo Movie on The Fischbowl Blogger (please refer to the two websites for a detailed account of the whole story). A Christmas gift, rejected by one person in America is the best gift ever received by a family in China. A beautiful story begins and ends in 24 days via the media of web posts. However, the real story, or the better part which comes out of it continues to spread across the world. The spread of the video on the web helps more and more people get involved in the shaping of a better world beyond the boundaries of races and nations.

The story once again made me see the charm and power of IT in the language classroom. What matters is not only how much linguistic knowledge we teach our students, but also how we prepare our students to live, learn, love, work, and hope in such a world.

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