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STUDENTS: Knowledge of World (r)

(written by coldspring@iearn.org, 03/27/1996)

To:  Governers Conference
From:  coldspring@igc.apc.org

Dear Governors,

My name is Sean Harrington, and I am an eighteen year
old senior at Cold Spring Harbor High School on Long Island.
I am currently enrolled in a Public Affairs Seminar class.
in which I use the internet as part of my work on an internet
based news magazine, The Contemporary, to contact students
all over the world to get their views on some important
global and national issues.  The topics include anything
from, National Identity, Bosnian War Crimes, the Hamas
bombings, the Olympics, Feminism, Gay Parenting, to what the
current status of those kids government and living conditions
are in their country.  I have learned many things through my
work as especially regarding how teens abroad see themselves,
as well as us in this world.  I have learned about what
effects our subsidized goods are having on the Australian
farmer, from a teacher there at Mansfield Secondary College.
I have learned about the changing times in Russia, from two
freshmen who live there.  I also learned about the huge
difference in the way women in Russia see themselves, from
the way that women in America see themselves.  I have sent my
condolences to the people in Scotland who lost children in
that terrible bombing.  Without the internet, and e-mail,
this kind of work would not be possible.  With this
technology, I am able to write a letter, and if the person
wants to respond, have a response later that day.  I believe
my project work represents only the tip of the iceberg
regarding the possibilities for internet learning.

Sean Harrington