In the last post I wrote about Citizen Diplomacy as enacted by hundreds of North American and Soviet psychologists and educators beginning in the 1980s at the height of the Cold War. One of the outcomes (there were many), was the co-creation of the Global Thinking Project (originally called the Soviet-American Global Thinking Project). The project was the result of nearly 40 teacher to teacher and student to student international exchanges. The GTP was one of the first projects to set up a telecommunications system using the Internet, although we primarily used email as the World Wide Web had not been invented when we started. We borrowed 6 computers and printers from Apple Computer, and 6 modems from Hayes Micro-modem Company, and then carried them to Moscow, and set them up in three schools there, and three in St. Petersburg.
More will be written….
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