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Monday, October 26, 2009
The rise of the globally connected student - Laurence Peters, eSchool News
Like many people in the U.S., President Obama seems not to have heard of iEARN or other international educational networks that now span the globe and are used proportionally in greater numbers by non-U.S. students. In his famous Cairo speech, our 44th president called for the creation of "a new online network, so a young person in Kansas can communicate instantly with a young person in Cairo." The vision the president set forth was an exciting one--he said he looked forward to a world where we would begin to break down centuries of misunderstanding between the Muslim and the non-Muslim worlds through the same kind of youth-to-youth exchanges that Peter Copen advocated almost two decades ago. This vision already is taking place in several forward-thinking schools.
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