Pakistani students to participate in int'l event

KARACHI - An interesting competition for the school students is being organised across the world on November 10 titled “One Day in the Life”, through iEarn Online Collaboration Centre. Pakistani students are participating in this event enthusiastically, the director iEarn Pakistan Farah S Kamal told The Nation on Saturday.
It may be noted that iEARN Centre Pakistan is run by the Society for International Education (SIE), a non-profit Karachi-based educational organisation. SIE has nationwide outreach network and is dedicated to the development of global partnerships in education, capacity building of learning communities based on the effective use of Information Communication Technology (ICT) for Pakistan and rest of the world.
She said that participation procedure is very simple - iEARN network globally ask students to document whatever they do between midnight on November 9 till November 10 midnight in writing, photography, videos or other media. There is no special format. If their English is poor, they can participate with images alone. Students can share digital photographs of their daily life such as; school, family, community routines, vacations, festivals, community events, religious rituals, as they experiences on November 10 and write short description of what is depicted in the photographs and its significance. It can be then shared with other participating students from around the world through iEARN Online Collaboration Centre.
Farah opined that the event is initiated by an iEARN USA teacher, Chris Bear, along with the teachers from Pakistan and many countries around the world. This is not a competition rather a day where the global community of students come together to share the diversity of their lifestyle and celebrate the commonality and learn to respect differences as they share their daily-life images.