Comment: We are very glad that we had the
opportunity to participate in this international project and we think that
we did a great job. We are waiting for the other packages to arrive. We
received a great package from TURKEY and ISRAEL . We are very glad because
we succeeded to know more about other countries and to know more about us.
We loved this project very much and we hope to start another one very soon.
BAIA MARE TEAM Country: ROMANIA
Date: Fri Jun 2 08:37:51 2000
From: Friends and Flags, Israel project. Grade: 10
Our brain works as a computer whose circuits
are our inner synapses, just that, this machine gets old. We know nothing
about the transmission of information in our body, that’s why the creative
mind of the human being has built a much more accessible machine which can
respond to the needs of mankind. For instance: one day when I was
desperately seeking a book hard to find I was amazed by the Internet.
Botosani is a town with a beautiful Public Library but, I’m always
confronting with the lack of philosophy writings. A friend of mine
guided me to our school computer and I was happy when I saw lots of books
compressed in files easy to study and to access. From that day I said
“Bye-bye” to the long hours spent into reading room and I really wish to
have a computer of my own , at school. I think that all we have to do is to
mix up school and technology.
Roxana HUSAC, 17 years old,
Student, Botosani, Romania
Anybody knows that in the future school will
not only mean computer classes but, even interactive (on-line) school, in
which every student will stay at home and will communicate with his/hers
teachers through his/her computer.
In Romania, I’m afraid, reality is so far from the picture imagined above.
Watch the following paradox : by the one hand many students think that using
Internet for school research may seem a joke (something like playing games)
and by the other hand Romanian students got the Silver medal at the
International Olympics of Informatics (Tokyo 2000) when most Romanian high
schools have a ridiculous number of computers. The laboratories don’t have
proper utilities and the computers need major up-grading.
Madalina PINTILIE, 17 years old,
Student, Botosani-Romania
No teacher, no problem ! Not a human being,
but a hellish demon, carrying a huge quantity of words, numbers and marks
makes our mornings a living nightmare. Oh, how I wish it would vanish,
disappear, dissipate in little, harmless particles, for all youth’s sake.
Maybe the near future holds something for us: no teachers, just me, my
laptop and a score of other teens and of other computers. And maybe a
friendly assistant. Ah, that’s a living! Instant access to information,
courtesy of a better version of the Internet – and free! Each one
learning what he wants, preparing himself for the future chosen by himself,
and himself only. No extra, useless information, no stress, no
compelling.And everything done digitally-even examinations. After all,
machine are the most objective in this way.
Anonymous Student, the same class
as Roxana and Madalina (above), Botosani, Romania
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