James Earl Jones

Today I got to see James Earl Jones and Adora Svitek demonstrate the modernization of story-telling. James read the Prince and the Pea, while 9-year old Adora searched around the web in front of the audience, researching content for a modernized version of the story. When he was done reading, the audience gave suggestions to Adora for her version. Astonishingly, she completed a modern version like no one on this earth could. James is an advocate of reading and learning. Adora is a young genius who has published works. She later signed copies of her latest novel. Part of this demonstrates that kids today, in their exposure to a high-paced, muti-tasked environment, have greater brain capacity as a result - a big theme of this conference.