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Sunday, July 06, 2008
Students explore Canada - LuAnn LaSalle, THE CANADIAN PRESS
Exploring Canada is easy with the click of a mouse. As the country prepares to celebrates its 141st birthday Tuesday, the Dominion Institute says learning about history online engages young people. Students like to feel they're interacting with history when they're on the Internet, said Jeremy Diamond, the institute's director of programs. "History lends itself to telling a story," he said. "The Internet only helps facilitate that, and any time we can encourage young people to read that story and be part of that story, the better off we are."
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