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About K12HSN MAGPI announces new programs Monday, March 8th, 2010 MAGPI is pleased to announce an exciting new program with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum for teachers of middle and high school students and college/university professors. The Road to Activism: Afghanistan - A Partnership with Traveling Mercies
A country devastated by war for the last 40 years had been left behind by the internationals, and Aldo Magazzeni's effort to make a difference for world peace led him on the road to activism in Afghanistan. Over the past six years, Aldo's engagement in Afghanistan has provided him with opportunities to create relationships with communities in an Islamic country, bringing down cultural and political barriers in an effort to help those in need. Alone in 2004, Aldo began to create relationships with the Afghan communities, elders, and leaders. His experiences in the rural villages of the Panjsher Valley and Hindu Kush Mountain begin with climbing Mir Samir Mountain and over the years have led him to build five water systems with villages. The road to Nairobi led him to work with women in schools and develop programs in the women’s prison, and to work with the Maraston Orphanage. His journey into Kabul led him to meet Suraya Pakzad, Director of Voice of Women, and an activist for women’s rights. Together in the last six years, they have built women’s shelters and started vocational and education programs in Herat City. Aldo has worked to install seven more water systems in Afghanistan - - delivering clean water to more than 15,000 families, or more than 75,000 people. The poorest communities, the women and men jails, high schools and government buildings have benefited. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NEW - Teaching History via Authentic Research - Children of the Lodz Ghetto: A Memorial Research Project March 25, 2010 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM | Via Videoconference Requirements for Participation: MAGPI and Non-MAGPI Members are invited to register for this project! To participate, you must have H.323 videoconference gear and a connection to your state/national research and education network. Each individual (or pair of attendees) must have a computer with an internet connection during this program. Program Information and Registration: Don't miss this NEW professional development opportunity from MAGPI and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum! Children of the Lodz Ghetto is an online collaborative history lab where learners perform authentic historical research using primary documents, historical databases, expert/peer feedback, and hypothesis building. Participants become “citizen historians” assembling and sharing the stories of children during the Holocaust while learning history, historical methods, and critical thinking skills. Based on a unique record of over 14,000 children from the Holocaust, Children of the Lodz Ghetto invites learners to take an active role in our understanding of the past. As "citizen historians," participants investigate children from the Lodz ghetto via an on-line research lab that structures the search, provides access to primary and secondary historical sources, and allows direct feedback from experts and peers. This project creates an authentic research and learning environment that asks learners to struggle together with the challenge of uncovering what is still unknown - what happened to these children. Yet, the project also ties individual research to the larger questions of how the Holocaust occurred. Working within this online environment, participants improve critical thinking skills and gain a more complex understanding of historical events. This research portal is still in development, but it is open to beta testing by middle school, high school, and college students. MAGPI www.magpi.net |
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