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Periodicals,
Books, Reports, and Videos on iEARN
This is only a partial list of references about iEARN. If you have iEARN references
to be added (in any language), please write to: ljobson@us.iearn.org
and, when possible, send us a copy of the article or report: Lisa
Jobson; 475 Riverside Drive, Room 450; New York, NY 10115, USA.
Interested in sharing stories about your experiences with iEARN? Click here for some ideas of publications to which you can submit/share your work.
Recent Coverage
iEARN teams up with New Jersey School District on Hindi Language Program. Featured in Converge Magazine, Teaching Hindi in Schools.
'Telling Tales: Pakistani Students Share Their Culture's Lore Online,' Saleem Ibrahim of iEARN-Pakistan, iEARN Folk Tales Project Facilitator, published in the George Lucas Educational Foundation's Edutopia. February 2008. Click here.
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Periodicals
Al-Ahram Weekly
Online, 20 - 26, December 2001 Issue No. 565.
"Abana Review," published by the Arab Bankers Association of North America. Click here to download a pdf of the article.
BBC News, Tuesday,
29 April, 2003, Award
for child soldiers site. A website has been honoured for its role
in helping former child soldiers in Sierra Leone recover from their
ordeal.
Branzberg, Jeffrey. Learning
on a Global Scale. Technology and Learning Magazine. November
15, 2002.
Brown, Justine
K. "Indigenous
Connections through iEARN." Converge Magazine, April 1999.
Copen,
Peter. "Connecting Classrooms through Telecommunications." Educational Leadership. October 1995: 44-47.
Ellis, Ken, "New
Technologies Link Ancient Cultures." Edutopia. A Publication
of the George Lucas Educational Foundation. June 6, 2002.
Faustova,
Galina, "From
Kazakhstan: Opinions about Terrorism,"techlearning.com,
February 1, 2001.
Faustova, Galina, "New
Areas of Motivation in Teaching Second-Language Writing,"
techlearning.com, October 1, 2001.
Gordon, David
(Ed.). Better
Teaching and Learning in the Digital Classroom (2003). Harvard
Education Publishing Group: Cambridge.
Gragert, Edwin.
"Learning
from the other." learningchannel.org. Opinion - July 2002
Gragert, Edwin,
"Expanding
International Education Through the Internet: No longer Limited to
the Global Studies and Language Curriculum," White Paper
prepared for the Secretary of Education's Conference on Technology
in Education, Washington, DC, September 2000.
Gragert, Edwin.
"It
Takes Many Villages to Make a World." The George Lucas Educational
Foundation Newsletter. October 5, 2000.
Gragert,
Edwin. "International Telecommunications Network expands
to K-12." Telecommunications in Education News. Summer
1991: 6.
Gragert, Edwin.
"High Tech in High School Exchanges." Transitions Abroad.
November/December 1990: 40-41.
Gragert, Edwin.
"The Internet Offers the Potential for an 'Education of Hope." School Board News. Oct. 13, 1998: 2.
Grambow, David.
"Using
Computers to Build Commuity: a Fifth Grade teacher offers Practical
Strategies for K-6 Teachers" Responsive Classroom, Winter
2002.
Greene, Andrew. iearn
sierra leone: youth witnessing from the front lines. 16 August
2002.
Holland, Matt.
"Planetary Networking for Kids." In Context: A Quarterly
of Humane Sustainable Culture. Winter 1993: 43-45.
Intel Innovation
Odyssey Features:
Building
Bridges of Understanding: Egyptian students connect with distant
peers
to study global water issues.
Lessons from
Siberia: Online projects connect Russian students with the world
Finding
Treasure: Australian students connect with the world of online
learning.
"International
Program Shows Children How to Change the World." School Board
News. June 1997: 6.
Issues
in Global Education. Journal of the American Forum for Global
Education. Guest-edited by Lisa Jobson and Aylin Kaya of iEARN-US. 2000-2001.
"It's the
World on the Line" Headstart section of the Courier Mail (anewspaper
in Queensland, Australia) on Tuesday, April 22 1997.
Kasman Valenza,
Joyce. "Going Online to Learn about and Help Others." The
Philadelphia Inquirer. May 22, 1997: 1.
Kern, Honey. An
End to Intolerance Online Student Magazine Encourages Global Learning.
ASCD Curriculum-Technology Quarterly. Volume 12, Number 2. Winter
2002.
Kern, Honey.
"Students' Grass Roots Work Goes Global: The iEARNHolocaust
/ Genocide Project (HGP)." Journal of Online Learning.
Volume 9 / Number 1. 1997: 5.
Kulezich,
Mihaela. "The
Visit of Mrs. Miles." Journal for Youth - Online Newspaper, Edited
by Kids and Supported by MIT. January 2001.
LaTurner, Gary.
"The World as a Classroom." The Washington Art Educator.
February 1996. v. 13 Winter: 1-2)
Magana, Sonny.
"Virtually Exploring the World." Changing Schools,
v. 24 n.1, February 1996: 3-5.
Moed, Andrea.
"What Technology Can Do For Youth: Defusing the Hype." Who
Cares. Nov/Dec 1997: 19-22.
Morton, Chris.
"Children Communicating." Online Connection. February
1992: 3.
Mero, Ted. Teaching Hindi in Schools Converge Online. Spring 2008.
New
York City Students Provide Tech Assistance to Jordan. Government
Technology. March 30, 2005.
Peerwijk,
Ingrid. "Computer Knowledge - the first
step to development." Feature on iEARN in Suriname. December
13, 2004
Potter,
David. "Sister Schools on the Superhighway: Linking sister
cities to the 21st century." Sister City News. Winter
1997: 7-8.
Reines, Sara
and Esther Lopata. "Teaching about the Holocaust: Programs to
Be Proud Of." AMIT. Spring 1997: 38-43.
Rennebohm-Franz,
Kristi and McLane, Jane. "Exploring Waterworlds: Telecommunications
for Young Students." Green Teacher. Fall 1996: 27-29.
Rennebohm-Franz,
Kristi. "Toward a Critical Social Consciousness in Children:
Multicultural Peace Education in a First Grade Classroom." Theory
into Practice. Autumn 1996: 264-270.
Rennebohm-Franz,
Kristi. "Real Teaching in the Social Context of the Virtual School."
1996. Rennebohm-Franz,
Kristi. USA North Central Regional Education Laboratories EnGauge Success
Stories. "There's
A Lot of Learning Going On- Use Multiple Assessments to Capture IT All,"
"Literacy
Learning through Technology: Primary Classroom," "The
Pedagogical Practice Behind the Technology in a Primary Classroom."
October 2000
Riel, Margaret. The Center for Collaborative
Research in Education. (The Center links educators, researchers,
and community resources with the goal of creating a deeper understanding
of educational problems in the school context and to encourage evidence-based
reasoning to solve these problems.)
Rosenoff, Julie.
"A Glimpse of Technology in Action at Spokane Valley HS." Changing Schools. February 1996: v. 24 n.1, 10-13.
Ryavec, Carole. "International Education and Resource Network in the Arab World." Abana Review, published by the Arab Bankers Association of North America. Click here to download a pdf of the article. Winter 2005
Solomon,
C. (2005). "Bellevue
students forge ties with Mideast schools," Seattle Times.
Solomon, Gwen.
"Special Report: Interdisciplinary Language Arts-Worldwide Writing." Electronic Learning. May/June 1994: 98.
Spasova,
Vela. "The
Wife of the American Ambassador Visits 91 GLHS." Az Buki Newspaper, 22-28 Nov. 2000, #47.
"Web:
A Global Playground." The International Herald
Tribune. November 29, 2000
White, Noel. Student
Creators- Helping students develop meaningful projects online.
George Lucas Educational Foundation. June 1, 2000. Wiske,
M., Breit, L., Rennebohm Franz, K. (2004) Teaching
for Understanding with Technology, Jossey-Bass, MA.
Zehr, Mary
Ann. "Opening
Up the Classroom--The World Is Their Teacher." Education
Week. October 1, 1998 (pp. 65-66).
Books
Anderson,
John, unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, "The International
Education and Resource Network: Building A Sustainable Virtual
School," University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, 1995.
Bodin, Joanne
Susan, unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, "Proximate Human Contact
Through the Internet: A Technography of an Intercultural Global
Electronic Learning Network, iEARN (International Education and
Resource Network)," The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque,
NM, 1998.
Brown, Kristin,
Jim Cummins, Enid Figueroa, and Dennis Sayers. "Global Learning
Network: Gaining Perspective on Our Lives with Distance." Beyond Heroes and Holidays: A Practical Guide to K-12 Anti-Racist,
Multicultural Education and Staff Development, edited by Enid
Lee, Deborah Menkart and Margo Okazawa-Rey. (for more information,
contact necadc@aol.com)
Cummins, Jim
and Dennis Sayers. Brave New Schools: Challenging Cultural
Illiteracy Through Global Learning Networks. New York: St.
Martin's Press, 1995.
Gordon, David
(Ed.). Better
Teaching and Learning in the Digital Classroom (2003).Harvard Education
Publishing Group: Cambridge. Includes chapter "Global Education
for Today's World: Creating Hope with Online Learning Communities,"
byKristi Rennebohm Franz and Edwin Gragert.
Lafontaine,
Ellen, unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, "The Implementation
of the International Education and Resource Network (iEARN) by
Argentine Teachers," New York University, New York, NY, 1999.
Wiske, Martha
Stone, with Kristi Rennebohm Franz and Lisa Breit, Teaching
for Understanding with Technology, John Wiley & Sons,
2005.
Reports
UN's High
Commissioner for Human Rights issues final report, "Educating
Children and Youth Against Racism," highlighting iEARN's
role in combatting racism through Internet-based education. 2001.
(download
pdf)
Conte, Christopher. "The Learning
Connection: Schools in the Information Age." Prepared
as part of theWhat's Going On series through the Benton
Foundation's Communications Policy and Practice program. 1997.
Copen, Brent,
"Evaluation Report: Program Impact on Teachers and Students
Who Attended the 9th Annual International iEARN Conference in
Moscwo, Russia 2002," Unpublished paper at Columbia University,
November 2002.A PDF version is available on the WWW: http://www.iearn.org/surveyreport.pdf (4.7mb).
Itzkan, Seth.
"Student recommendations for global networking in schools."
Washington, DC: World Future Society General Assembly. 1993.
MAGI Educational
Services, Inc. "Evaluation of the New York State/Moscow Schools
Telecommunications Project." Prepared for: New York State
Education Department, Division of Elementary and Secondary Education.
February 1992.
Videos
International
Education and Resource Network: A Global Gateway for Kids. Southwest Educational Development Lab. [211 East 7th Street; Austin,
Texas 78701; phone: 512-476-6861] A 12 minute videotape produced
by SEDL for the US Dept of Education.
iEARN:
Linking Communities to Make a Difference. [contact iEARN]
An 8 minute videotape produced by Back to Back Productions sharing
iEARN voices from across the globe.
Online
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