How has I*EARN impacted your life as a teacher in Argentina, Adriana? How has it affected the lives of your students? It impacted not only the lives of the students and teachers, but also the lives of parents and the community. I'm one of the thousands of teachers in I*EARN whose teaching practice has been affected greatly, deeply by I*EARN. I live in a very isolated place, Patagonia, which is the southern region of Argentina. I've been working in a public secondary school with very underprivileged children. I've been there for 20 years now. I was a bit disappointed about teaching with very few resources that we teachers have in a developing country, especially in a very far away place like the one where I live. Perhaps my anecdote as a teacher is that I was ready to quit because I had given up. That's the truth. The year I was ready to quit the minister of education sent this proposal for the school to be one of the first five pilots schools in Argentina to work with this technology for telecommunications. Well, I was caught by this and I never left. I'm still a teacher in Argentina nearly eight years later because working with this technology and I*EARN, I could see the difference that it makes for students and teachers and also the community where we live. It involves every pedagogical issue that we teachers are concerned about, like how to teach meaningfully, how to get the students more involved and in charge and take responsibility for their own learning, how to work collaboratively and take action in society. This is the first principal of democracy really. This is something that we really need coming from a military government for so many years. We do not have a habit of participating in community and this is something that needs to be taught. We adults do not have this, much less kids. We see that this is a need. This is a priority of educational reform in Argentina. Through working with I*EARN, this happens naturally because naturally kids get involved in collaborative work! One of the main aims for I*EARN is taking action because it's very much values oriented. From the very beginning we teachers and students need to know what the outcome for making a difference in our communities will be so we need to focus on that outcome. And then it happens. It happened so many times with dozens of projects we have been working with. What's the most recent project that you have been working on in Argentina? cliff's edge || jump || innovate || email