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AC2K
Civic Education Training Initiative Successfully Completed
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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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