Globally Empower Teachers with Paperless Homework for a Greener World
Company releases new tools and contents to empower teachers to conduct paperless classrooms or homework. All teachers in the world are given free tools and contents. Save trees for a greener world. Initiatives will relieves many of the problems of using ICT in education by traditional methods.
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, January 20, 2007 --(PR.com)-- VVC Global Network has just launched for global release their solution to a more effiecient use of ICT in Education and at the same time instills into our children an environment friendly consciousness.
One of the biggest challenges today is how to conserve our trees all over the world. The demand by industries for papers besides furnitures is so huge that trees are chopped down at unprecedented rate today.
It is not just planting more trees. A better way is to reduce the demand for papers around the world by NOT not using papers as far as we can.
Who among all are using papers everyday, besides newspapers around the world?
Well, they are none other than school children. Yes, they use papers for books, exercise books, worksheets, assignments etc. A more significant observation is that these students number in the billions!
Estimating that each school going child will consume 2 rims of papers for homework a year, 12 pencils or ball point pens(which contains inks and plastics), toners from photocopying of the worksheets by teachers for homework assignments, the amount of environment detrimental items used are just mind boggling.
To make matters worst these papers will either end up in landfills or burnt to produce even more CO2 into the atmosphere.
It is a double whammy. Cut the CO2 breathing trees to make papers and burn them to release more CO2 into the atmosphere. Add to that the inks, pencils and ball pens need more energy to produce and that means more releases of CO2 into the atmosphere.
Recycling is only half the solution because the trees are still cut down for the papers used not to mention the cost of collections and recycling.
The best solution is NOT to use the papers at all. Reduce this demand for papers by millions of students around the world, the impact can be significant to equal any measure we are undertaking today.
Many have tried this approach by creating paperless classrooms. One needs only to google "paperless classroom" will produce links leading to many initiatives towards this direction. All current efforts have one thing in common. All need some expensive gadgets like IPODs, PDAs or Tablet PCs. While they are effective, these efforts are too expensive for the majority of the schools around the world.
So these efforts are non starters for anti Global warming efforts.
Other solutions like using pure online solutions requiring Internet connections have also failed to achieve this goal. Neither has CD ROM based offline solutions as they are too localized and impractical for mass education.
Hence schools around the world are still dependent on papers.
So what is the solution then?
In order for this solution to be effective, our first task will be to empower the teachers, who are too daunted by existing technologies to want to effect a paperless classrooms. They need a simpler system.
A more practical way has to be provided for teachers to do it not merely on moral or civic grounds alone but on necessities and needs to do so for their own benefits. Efforts should be enhanced to make giving digital homework a no “brainer”. This will encourage teachers to do so voluntarily. Only then we can see a more spontaneous growth of such initiatives in schools around the world.
Such projects can be given another push by having a worksheet exchange program so teachers do not have to reinvent the wheel. After all, Einstein's law in England is still the same as in USA.
The delivery of contents between schools' computers and students' home computers should be easy for ALL students, old or new computers, diskette or pendrives etc.
Such an approach is being promoted and can be found at www.paperlesshomework.com. In fact they are giving every teacher and Ministries of education in the world free tools and interactive multimedia contents contents for free.
Enabling teachers around the world to effect paperless homework overnight is no easy feat. So far only selected small scale attempts using PDAs or Tablet PCs have been attempted.
While it is accepted that this alone is not going to reverse global warming, it is at least one direction among many that should be pursued. It is important because children are now active participants of Anti global warming goals.
Other benefits of such an initiative are enabling more home computers to be used for school work rather than being used for games and learning will be faster.
Teachers will be relieved of boring time consuming routines and free for other tasks.
What is more important is that children will be active participants and be aware of the importance of conservation. Only through active participations of all can this project take off.
Can global warming be reversed? Let our children decide. Mother Earth depends on them.
Submitted by
Alan Foo Ho Kok
VVC Global Network
www.paperlesshomework.com
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One of the biggest challenges today is how to conserve our trees all over the world. The demand by industries for papers besides furnitures is so huge that trees are chopped down at unprecedented rate today.
It is not just planting more trees. A better way is to reduce the demand for papers around the world by NOT not using papers as far as we can.
Who among all are using papers everyday, besides newspapers around the world?
Well, they are none other than school children. Yes, they use papers for books, exercise books, worksheets, assignments etc. A more significant observation is that these students number in the billions!
Estimating that each school going child will consume 2 rims of papers for homework a year, 12 pencils or ball point pens(which contains inks and plastics), toners from photocopying of the worksheets by teachers for homework assignments, the amount of environment detrimental items used are just mind boggling.
To make matters worst these papers will either end up in landfills or burnt to produce even more CO2 into the atmosphere.
It is a double whammy. Cut the CO2 breathing trees to make papers and burn them to release more CO2 into the atmosphere. Add to that the inks, pencils and ball pens need more energy to produce and that means more releases of CO2 into the atmosphere.
Recycling is only half the solution because the trees are still cut down for the papers used not to mention the cost of collections and recycling.
The best solution is NOT to use the papers at all. Reduce this demand for papers by millions of students around the world, the impact can be significant to equal any measure we are undertaking today.
Many have tried this approach by creating paperless classrooms. One needs only to google "paperless classroom" will produce links leading to many initiatives towards this direction. All current efforts have one thing in common. All need some expensive gadgets like IPODs, PDAs or Tablet PCs. While they are effective, these efforts are too expensive for the majority of the schools around the world.
So these efforts are non starters for anti Global warming efforts.
Other solutions like using pure online solutions requiring Internet connections have also failed to achieve this goal. Neither has CD ROM based offline solutions as they are too localized and impractical for mass education.
Hence schools around the world are still dependent on papers.
So what is the solution then?
In order for this solution to be effective, our first task will be to empower the teachers, who are too daunted by existing technologies to want to effect a paperless classrooms. They need a simpler system.
A more practical way has to be provided for teachers to do it not merely on moral or civic grounds alone but on necessities and needs to do so for their own benefits. Efforts should be enhanced to make giving digital homework a no “brainer”. This will encourage teachers to do so voluntarily. Only then we can see a more spontaneous growth of such initiatives in schools around the world.
Such projects can be given another push by having a worksheet exchange program so teachers do not have to reinvent the wheel. After all, Einstein's law in England is still the same as in USA.
The delivery of contents between schools' computers and students' home computers should be easy for ALL students, old or new computers, diskette or pendrives etc.
Such an approach is being promoted and can be found at www.paperlesshomework.com. In fact they are giving every teacher and Ministries of education in the world free tools and interactive multimedia contents contents for free.
Enabling teachers around the world to effect paperless homework overnight is no easy feat. So far only selected small scale attempts using PDAs or Tablet PCs have been attempted.
While it is accepted that this alone is not going to reverse global warming, it is at least one direction among many that should be pursued. It is important because children are now active participants of Anti global warming goals.
Other benefits of such an initiative are enabling more home computers to be used for school work rather than being used for games and learning will be faster.
Teachers will be relieved of boring time consuming routines and free for other tasks.
What is more important is that children will be active participants and be aware of the importance of conservation. Only through active participations of all can this project take off.
Can global warming be reversed? Let our children decide. Mother Earth depends on them.
Submitted by
Alan Foo Ho Kok
VVC Global Network
www.paperlesshomework.com
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