Green Earth Schools Foundation
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Recognizing the existence of critical challenges in our schools, our environment and our economy, the founders of Green Earth Schools Foundation envisioned schools that will address those challenges strategically by encouraging students to convert course knowledge into entrepreneurial solutions. Our future lies in releasing student knowledge through social networking technologies to create social or community capital. Our current system has no systemic way of doing that. We believe that the purpose of education is not simply to educate the individual but to use a student's knowledge as a means for her/him to become active citizens who can improve the economic and cultural well being of a community. The primary goal of creating 4.0 GPAs that get students into premiere colleges is a poor strategy for meeting the challenges of our time. It ignores the larger opportunity of converting high schools into community R&D centers, of helping students to translate course knowledge (usually confined to tests) into solutions to community, state, regional, national or global problems.
Recognizing the existence of critical challenges in our schools, our environment and our economy, the founders of Green Earth Schools Foundation envisioned schools that will address those challenges strategically by encouraging students to convert course knowledge into entrepreneurial solutions. Our future lies in releasing student knowledge through social networking technologies to create social or community capital. Our current system has no systemic way of doing that. We believe that the purpose of education is not simply to educate the individual but to use a student's knowledge as a means for her/him to become active citizens who can improve the economic and cultural well being of a community. The primary goal of creating 4.0 GPAs that get students into premiere colleges is a poor strategy for meeting the challenges of our time. It ignores the larger opportunity of converting high schools into community R&D centers, of helping students to translate course knowledge (usually confined to tests) into solutions to community, state, regional, national or global problems.
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MySpace Courseware Development GroupAttention all web developers, instructional designers, content developers, graphics developers, technical writers, editors, programmers, managers, and others: if you create or use web-based training or similar courseware, this is your MySpace group!
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Watchdog: New York State Regulation of Natural Gas Wells Has Been "Woefully Insufficient for Decades."Adobe Flash Player version 9.0.115 or higher is required to watch video inline on this webpage, and JavaScript must be enabled. You can choose another option on the listen/watch page if you prefer. Watchdog: New York State Regulation of Natural Gas Wells Has Been “Woefully Insufficient for ...
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STOP GLOBAL WARMING/ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES ORGANIZING TEAMPDA - PROGRESSIVE DEMOCRATS OF AMERICA MOBILIZING THE PROGRESSIVE VOTE Call President Obama! Dear Friend, On October 24, people all over the world will join together in an International Day of Action to combat catastrophic climate change . We call upon you to call President Obama on ...
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The Sustainable Learning System™This diagram complements the business plan's description of Green Earth School's Sustainable Learning System™. The diagram depicts the interrelationships between each of the 6 deliverables.
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Pass the Obama BudgetYour representatives in Congress are already hearing from lobbyists every day who are working to roll back the historic changes President Obama's budget could bring America. The coalmining companies, drug corporations, weapons builders and all the rest are already in there having their say. If ...
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MySpace Courseware Development GroupIf you are interested in eLearning and are a MySpace member, you're encouraged to join this group.Ted Kopp added 8 weeks ago
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16Community Toolbox -- Consensus building tools and techniquesMore about Change Methods at: Change Methods . More about Local Community Development at: Local Community DevelopmentGiorgio Bertini added 15 months ago
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