AC2K Civic Education Training Initiative Successfully Completed

Nor Gyank

The Armenian connectivity 2000 Program (AC2K) is dedicated to promoting the educational use of the internet in a manner that will strengthen democracy, support civil society and promote cultural understanding throughout Armenia. The AC2K program will have connected over 120 Armenian schools to the internet by the fall of 2002. AC2K is a program of the United States Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and administered by Project Harmony.

A large portion of AC2K activity relates to training for Armenian educators, administrators and community members. One aspect of training is exchange programs, two of which have already occurred: one group of American social studies trainers went to Armenia in July 2001 and a group of Armenian educational representatives came to the United States in January 2002. The third exchange is the Civic Education Training Initiative (CETI).

CETI concluded with a conference to provide civics educators with support in creating technology-based activities for use in civics lessons. Selected participants from the regional workshops came to a final three day conference during which they created a website to correlate with selected lessons in the Armenian National Civic Education textbooks, based on strategies learned in the workshops given by the American trainers. Overall, more than 450 Armenians participated in CETI.




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