Thanks to Clay Burrell at Beyond School for the alert to this video. Just as ‘Did you know?’ became a viral video with an enormous viewing audience, the hope is that ‘Did you ever wonder?’ will reach similar viral proportions. The video was created by Bill Warren from ed4wb.org (education for well-being). On his about page Bill says, “Education For Well-being was started as a response to what is happening (and not happening) in schools today. There needs to be a rethinking of the purpose of education–one that moves away from students as support systems for economies–to one that moves toward education as an instrument of well-being…………Ed4Wb seeks to foster, through the collaborative nature of the Web, the notion that education should help improve our ability to live well, not degrade it.”
The video highlights the notion that we need to be conscious of our responsibility to educate our students that the focus shouldn’t be on economic growth to the detriment of sustainability of earth’s resources; resources being people and the environment. It’s a good message and one that would compliment studies of Globalisation and Global Warming in our schools today.
Thanks Bill for creating another useful tool that can be used as the springboard for lively discussions in our classrooms.
Lucacept - intercepting the Web 
Jenny, thanks for spreading the word about Bill’s very important work. He’s going to be guest-blogging about it on my blog soon, and I hope that helps spread the word even more. And you’re right about Earth Day possibilities. Bill and I are involved in the Project Global Cooling campaign, and all schools are welcome to join. The aim is to make sustainability an annual focus via this project of “having fun doing good.”