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Author Email: Jill Copen
<jill@copenfund.igc.apc.org>
Project Information
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Project Title: The Laws of Life Student Essay Project
Project Begin & End Dates: 11/01/98 to 7/01/99
Project Summary: This is an international student essay project. Its called the Laws of
Life Project. The laws of life are a set of ideals and principals by which one chooses to
live.
Project Details
Project Level: Basic
Curriculum Area: Community Interest, Information Technology, Language, Technology
Technologies Used: Email, Web Based Discussion Forum
Full Project Description:
Throughout the world, students, teachers and entire ministries of education are exploring
- some for the first time since experiencing independence - what appropriate role
ethics-education should play in classrooms. Working in partnership with the John Templeton
Foundation, I*EARN (The International Education and Resource Network) will utilize its
worldwide, educational-telecommunications network to mobilize the views of students around
the world to create an International ìLaws of Life Essay Projectî.
This project will stimulate a wealth of student writing on values and utilize these essays
to help institutionalize ethics-education in the participating countries, and in
particular focus on essays written in Chinese, Russian, Spanish, Hindi and English. As
part of this project I*EARN will create an on-line forum for essays submitted by students
throughout the 50-country I*EARN network, publish a compilation of essays by students
worldwide for distribution in classrooms throughout the globe and conduct a ìLaws of Life
Ceremonyî at the annual I*EARN conference in
July 1999 in which students will read their essays.
In order to focus the discussion, students will submit essays on the following virtues:
courage, honesty and respect.
Objectives:
Rather than surfing the internet and playing video games, Heather age 15 in Seattle uses
her computer to express that perseverance and courage are two values that have profound
meaning in her life. ìI believe that never giving up is the greatest law in life.î
Heather and 300,000 other students are part of a worldwide internet project exploring the
values or laws of life, they hold most sacred in their lives and sharing this with
students around the world.
Project Registration Information
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Project Email Address: jill@copenfund.igc.apc.org
Registration Acceptance Dates: 11/01/98 to 5/01/99
Number of Classrooms: 100
Age Range: 11 to 19 years
Target Audience: International (Russian Federation)
Project URL: http://www.iearn.org/projects/laws.html
Registration Instructions:
Please Contact Jill Copen at Jill@copenfund.igc.apc.org to receive a teacher's guide
through regular mail. Participation will be through a listserv/newsgroup and you will be
subscribed to this when you join.
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Project Contact Information
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Jill Copen - mailto:jill@copenfund.igc.apc.org
Program Coordinator - I*EARN -The International Education and Resource Network
http://www.iearn.org
New York, New York US
