Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!dali.cs.montana.edu!ogicse!clark!pro-freedom.cts.com!noahm From: noahm@pro-freedom.cts.com (Noah Magram) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: This day and AGE Message-ID: <1990Dec7.152143.6170@clark.edu> Date: 7 Dec 90 15:06:10 GMT Sender: usenet@clark.edu Organization: Apple*Van - Apple Users Group of Vancouver, WA [206/253-9389] Lines: 104 Here is another Apple project called AGE, Apple Global Education, check it out! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- >From pro-harvest!pro-apa!janec Fri Dec 7 02:36:03 1990 Received: by pro-harvest.cts.com (sendmail 1.6) id l709362; Fri, 7 Dec 90 02:36:03 CST Date: Thu, 6 Dec 90 20:29:01 PDT Ppath: pro-freedom!noahm From: janec@pro-apa.cts.com (Jane Craford) To: noahm@pro-freedom Subject: Brief AGE Overview **************************BRIEF AGE OVERVIEW********************************** Copyright 1990, Apple Computer, Inc. Apple Computer research has developed a research and development project called AGE -- APPLE GLOBAL EDUCATION. Implemented through our worldwide network of Apple field sales offices, we are supporting a Macintosh-based AppleLink connection in schools around the world. (AppleLink is an Apple proprietary electronic network system running though General Electric Information Service nodes and mainframe. It supports electronic mail, binary file transfer, and icon based libraries, bulletin boards, etc.) Built as an Apple-only information distributor, AppleLink's use is being expanded by placing it into selected schools around the world. So far we have reached over 140 schools in 29 countries and we are entering our second school year. We have group addresses and a dedicated bulletin board with limitless numbers of folders for curricular project and activity topics. The basic theme of the project is: "Apple connects the students of the world together." We are aware that there is nothing unique about this effort, and that there have been and are many international networks with as many different agendas. We hope to learn from their successes and their mistakes. What distinguishes this network from all the others is that it is exclusively Macintosh and AppleLink based, and that it is founded on the philosophy of Apple Computer. The individual is at the heart of everything we do. We build computers that empower individuals who do not want to learn about computers, but rather use them in new and productive ways for learning. The Macintosh is universally recognized as a powerful, creative learning and teaching tool. We encourage and support our global network of schools to take a pro-active role in shaping the various projects that capitalize on the opportunities of this global network. We do not intend to dictate or "sell" curriculum packages. Apple computers in the schools have moved us beyond the days of spoon feeding, for teachers as well as students. However, we also provide "inspiration" with lists of project ideas and with a curriculum folder on the AGE bulletin board that can gather various schools' ideas which they seek to implement in partnership with other distant schools. We will also support curricula that can be distributed online and facilitate multi-school interaction in multi-cultural and multi-lingual environments. We believe that the most interesting activities on the AGE network have not yet been conceived. The project also is supported by a number of consultant/facilitators with international telecommunications experience who will interact, online, with schools and with each other, as well as with us at Apple, about the shape and direction of AGE. They constitute the AGE R&D Team. AGE is not time bound. It is not a one-shot event. It is not based on the delivery of a single curriculum. It does not rely on externally generated instructional materials. Apple provides Macintosh based connectivity for a teaching and learning technology that can change the way we learn, think and know. AGE will provide this powerful platform to various resources for learning; ecology data bases, the daily logs of Polar explorers, a pro-active agenda from GREENPEACE. The schools, enriched with both computer and communication power, are free to develop activities and projects for and with students that take advantage of these potentialities. Students and their teachers are "conversing" in Spanish, German, French, as well as English and, yes, Latin. Projects include weather data collections, mathematical problem solving, social issues that are country specific, joint school adoption over polution issues, comparative graphs of age and grade levels in different countries and multilingual recipes. Text, graphs, charts, maps, digitized photos and original drawings as well as hypercard stacks are being transmitted. Visitors from overseas countries come online to answer questions about their culture and communities. A favorite metaphor for global telecommunication in education is the vast oceans which house the great whales who sing to each other over great distances. The gobal classroom is also one continuous echo chamber binding all continents, where the songs of every student rebound to every other student worldwide. for further information, Link: ENGEL 12 September 1990 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ProLine: Noahm@pro-freedom | "I only try to make the same Internet: Noahm@pro-freedom.cts.com | mistake a dozen times," UUCP: clark!pro-freedom!noahm | --Skeeve, Mything Persons, ARPA: clark!pro-freedom!noahm@nosc.mil | /\Robert Asprin/\ ------------------------------------------------------------------------