3rd iEARN CIVICS BRIDGE Teachers'
Training in Lahore29th,30th and 31st May 2003
24 educators from 12 public, private and trust schools have successfully attended the 3 days
iEARN CIVICS-BRIDGE Training Program from 29th -31st May 2003.
Most of the participating schools are adopted by ITA
as a part of their school improvement program. The schools are located in very poor
localities but are focused but the staff and leadership from are enthusiastic to
initiate iEARN projects in their schools.
"As a teacher this experience is valuable to me because only the iEARN platform gave us a chance to express our feelings all over the world. And most important of all, our students who do not know the computer more than a computing machine will have a unique opportunity to work on different projects with other students of the world through internet. The participants have enthusiastically completed all the offline and online workshop activities and made real efforts to learn the skills and understand the concept of shared online learning. Read their reflections.
The three days session was facilitated by veteran iEARNers that includes Zobia Izhar who recently returned from US after attending the CIVICS-4 NYC Master Trainers' Program, Sarah Alam, the iEARN Youth representative for the year 2003 and Muhammad Ali Farid, the most senior iEARN student from Pakistan and now successful business graduate.
iEARN-Pakistan in collaboration with ITA (Idara Taleem O Agahi) organised a 3 days CIVICS-BRIDGE Teacher Training Workshop at APTECH Lab in Lahore.
Beena Raza of ITA and Farah S. Kamal of iEARN-Pakistan, also signed a memorandum of understanding of collaboration between two organisations. Visit www.itacec.org to find more about ITA.
Mr. Alvi, the Provincial Secretary of Information Technology joined the group for the closing of the workshop and distributed the certificates.
As part of the iEARN BRIDGE and Friendship Through Education program iEARN has provided equipment support to some of the participating schools:
Dabistan High School-Jehlum: a Computer lab with 6 networked workstations, printer and scanner.
City Government Girls School-Nai Basti: a Computer lab with 7 networked workstations.
Sanjan Nagar Public Eduication Girls high School A nest of 3 networked computers in the school library.
Alif Laila Book Bus Society: A nest of 3 networked computers in the school library.
City
District Government-