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Children, Chernobyl and the Internet
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"A couple of weeks ago I received a letter from Mrs. Clinton that invited my family to the White H use. We agreed to go and were there on May 1, 1996. I gave a short speech in front of Mrs. Clinton, the Vice President, and other important people. The White House is very big and everybody who lives there is nice." - Vova Malofienko, fifth grader at Millburn Middle School, NJ
About this page The Internet has brought history into classrooms around the world with unprecedented immediacy. I know this firsthand, having seen my students featured in Scientific American for their email exchange with children from Chernobyl in 1992. When Liz Bagish, Vova's computer teacher, brough Vova's plight to the attention of the OII community, many shared my reaction: it would be tragic if the most powerful technology ever devised could be used to give our own children a pat on the back, but not be used to save the life of a child who was personally involved. Hence this project. Our aim is to create an educational resource that combines firsthand stories, research and a means to ask questions and get answers from people who approach history as participants rather than spectators. - Ferdi Serim [ Back ] |
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