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- Subject: Volunteers Needed for On-Line Ed (fwd)
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 11:30:33 EST
- Sender: "MIDWEST CONSORTIUM FOR LATINO RESEARCH" <MCLR-L@MSU.BITNET>
- From: Judith Harris <jbharris@tenet.edu>
- Subject: Volunteers Needed for On-Line Educational Project
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- WOULD YOU BE WILLING TO SHARE WHAT YOU KNOW WITH
- PRE-COLLEGE STUDENTS AND TEACHERS BY ELECTRONIC MAIL?
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- Recent estimates indicate that there are now more than
- 50,000 classroom teachers from primary, middle, and
- secondary schools who hold accounts on the Internet.
- This makes a very special kind of learning available to
- them: one which directly involves subject matter experts
- communicating with students and teachers about their
- specialties, via electronic mail.
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- With support from the Texas Center for Educational
- Technology, we (at the University of Texas at Austin)
- are now piloting a new Internet-based service (the
- "Electronic Emissary") that will bring together pre-
- college students, their teachers, and subject matter
- experts (SMEs) electronically, helping them to create
- telecomputing exchanges centered around the students'
- learning in the SMEs' disciplines. For example,
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- * A class studying South America could learn about
- recent global environmental research results from a
- scientist who studies rainforest deforestation in
- Brazil.
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- * A class studying geometry might "talk" electronically
- with Euclid, who is actually a mathematics professor.
-
- * A class studying the future of education might
- converse with an emerging technologies specialist from
- California's Silicon Valley.
-
- * A class studying American History might
- electronically interview Harry Truman, who is really a
- curator with the National Archives.
-
- * A class exploring the rapidly-changing governmental
- structures that are emerging in what was once the Soviet
- Union might correspond with a group of graduate
- political science students at a university in the CIS.
-
- * Or, a class reading _Huckleberry Finn_ might
- correspond with an African-American studies scholar
- about the repercussions resulting from the enacting of
- the Emancipation Proclamation.
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- In this pilot phase of the project, 10-12 SMEs or SME
- groups are needed to correspond regularly (approximately
- 4 times per week) with primary, middle school, or
- secondary students and their teachers (1 SME or expert
- group per class). Each electronic exchange will begin
- with 2 weeks of project planning via electronic mail
- between the SMEs and the teachers (2/16 - 2/28/93).
- Communications with students will begin during the week
- of March 1st, and will continue for 4 - 6 weeks.
-
- ==> If you would like to find out more about this pilot
- ==> project, please send electronic mail to Judi Harris,
- ==> jbharris@tenet.edu. Please include your name,
- ==> institution, and areas of expertise.
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- ==> PLEASE RESPOND ASAP; all teacher-SME pairs will be
- ==> formed by 2/15/93.
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- Judi Harris
- _ /| _^^_ Department of Curriculum & Instruction
- \'o.o'( \ University of Texas at Austin
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- c.." ..cc--"\_? Internet address: JBHarris@Tenet.edu
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