noahm@pro-freedom.cts.com (Noah Magram) (12/07/90)
Here is another Apple project called AGE, Apple Global Education, check it
out!
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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
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------------------------------------------------------------------------toddpw@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel) (12/08/90)
noahm@pro-freedom.cts.com (Noah Magram) writes: >Here is another Apple project called AGE, Apple Global Education, check it >out! ------------------ >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. This ain't the Apple I knew and loved. This is MBA tunnel vision. Todd Whitesel toddpw @ tybalt.caltech.edu
noahm@pro-freedom.cts.com (Noah Magram) (12/09/90)
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