MODULE 5. 5.1.
ICT PROJECTS IN EDUCATION
The Right Spirit
Any explicit collaborative work that aims at the improved conditions for learning with the help of ICTs can be listed here. The task is not to make a full inventory neither to list the most important ones. The goal is to inspire you as a part-time cybernaut with the right spirit to find the appropriate projects and partners exactly for your classes. The examples given will be diverse for you to decide what direction your project might take. It is important to know that almost each big ideological organization has its own educational web site. Many of them clearly anticipate school-based learning practices. Examples are listed in Table 10. We offer the heuristic to consult the Web via your favourite search tool and find a wealth of educational ideas and materials to be included in your lessons and projects. Another aspect is that these organizations often link schools in different countries that may result in real face-to-face exchange programmes. Table 10. Educational projects initiated by large world organizations supported by ICTs Name
Url
Description
Greenpeace
http://www.greenpeace.org/inter Greenpeace is a non-profit organization with a presence in 40 national_en/ countries across Europe, the Americas, Asia and the Pacific
Amnesty International
http://www.amnesty.org/
Amnesty International is a worldwide movement of people who campaign for internationally recognized human rights
World Health Organization
http://www.who.int/en/
The World Health Organization, the United Nations specialized agency for health, was established on 7 April 1948. It’s objective, as set out in its Constitution, is the attainment of the highest possible level of health by all peoples
Medecins sans Frontieres
http://www.msf.org/homeuk.cfm
Medecins Sans Frontieres was born out of the exasperation of a group of French doctors working in desperate conditions of the Biafra War in the early 1970s
United Nations
http://www.un.org/Pubs/Cyber SchoolBus/index.html
880 schools in over 80 countries registered for the World Summit Event for Schools (http://cyberschoolbus.un.org/wsis/about.asp) on ICTs and human rights
UNESCO Education Network
http://unesco.edna.edu.au/index At each World Conference many projects are started. Current _projects.html projects of particular relevance to the Australian education community are linked on the indicated web page
Etc.
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