Global Schoolhouse
Kathleen McGlynn Rutkowski <kmr@CNRI.Reston.VA.US> Thu, 22 April 1993 02:35 UTC
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Ray Harder suggested posting information on this listing concerning the Global Schoolhouse project. This is a project offered by the FrEdMail Foundation of Bonita, California and its description follows. To: Schools Around the Globe From: FrEdMail Foundation Yvonne Marie Andres, President Al Rogers, Executive Director Re: Invitation to Participate in the Global School House Date: April 8, 1993 THE GLOBAL SCHOOLHOUSE makes its debut with the S.A.F.E.R. Water Project Student Ambassadors for Environmental Reform Students, their parents, and teachers are invited to participate in a very exciting and significant Global Schoolhouse project that will combine the elements of student problem solving skills, environmental issues, global conscientiousness, and modern information technologies to accomplish a common goal. They will be asked to investigate the problems created by water run-off and to design a public awareness program that can be implemented in their own communities, and then shared and replicated globally. They will help make the world's waters safer by becoming student ambassadors for environmental reform. Dependence on toxic chemical has serious consequences for our environment and is compromising our future. Improper use or disposal of motor oil, antifreeze, pesticides, fertilizers, agricultural by-products, rock salt, household cleaning products, paints, solvents, and waste products contribute to serious water contamination through urban runoff, also known as nonpoint source pollution. Students have the power to play an important role in making their neighborhoods and the global environment safe from toxics and protecting the earth's water quality. Many regulatory agencies and educational programs have already been established to address the issue of urban runoff. Therefore, students will be encouraged to gather, compile, analyze, synthesize, organize, and share existing information in order to generate a strategic plan that will apply their findings in a useful and effective manner. Students will produce a newsletter and a calendar from collaborative their research. Four 5th through 8th grade classrooms are currently conducting research on the environment. These classrooms, located in California, Tennessee, Virginia, and London, are reading Vice President Gore's "Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit" (Houghton Mifflin, 1992). In conjunction with their reading, the students are investigating the problems created by water run-off and are designing a public awareness program that can be implemented in their own communities. These same programs can later be replicated in other communities throughout the world. Throughout the Global Schoolhouse project, the classrooms will interact with each other through the use of FrEdMail and the Internet. The four original partner schools will engage in several special video teleconferences that will be conducted over the Internet using the Cornell CU-SeeMe software for the Apple Macintosh. Several guest speakers have been invited to help moderate this video teleconference, allowing the classrooms to present their findings and engage in a mutual dialogue about the environment and what can be done by both students and national leaders. The Global Schoolhouse project will be aired on television during National Science and Technology Week (April 26-May 1), a yearly event conducted by the National Science Foundation to showcase programs of particular note. The implementation of this project is being made possible through funding and support from the National Science Foundation, and donations of equipment and services from CERFnet, FrEdMail, Pac Bell, Sprint, Apple Computers, Cisco, Cayman, JDL Technologies, Cornell University, and other companies not yet determined. Curriculum and coordination of classroom activities for the project is being facilitated by the FrEdMail Foundation. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Your Invitation: Although the project itself is limited to the four pilot schools, we would like to share our activities and findings with other schools around the world, as this is a worldwide issue. Students may elect to conduct similar activities at their sites, develop their own public awareness campaigns, and become: STUDENT AMBASSADORS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL REFORM! If you would like to be added to the mailing list that monitors and receives updates of this project, please send a request to: andresyv@cerf.net ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ <<*>><<*>><<*>><<*>><<*>><<*>><<*>><<*>> Yvonne Marie Andres, Program Coordinator Oceanside Unified School District 823 Acacia Avenue, Oceanside, CA 92054 Director of Visionary Learning Applications FrEdMail (Free Educational Electronic Mail) Foundation " Linking Students and Educators Around the Globe" +1 619 757-6061 or/619 439-0914 FAX/619 433-1409 andresyv@cerf.net <<*>><<*>><<*>><<*>><<*>><<*>><<*>><<*>> End of returned message
- Global Schoolhouse Kathleen McGlynn Rutkowski