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\"GlobalAn initial outline for a project of building a virtual educational environment for children all over the world, which was presented before Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO in a meeting held on February 2nd, 2011<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Goal of the Project<\/strong>
\nThe goal of the project is to provide a virtual educational environment for children all over the world where children gain awareness of the integral world they live in and recognize the need to live by the laws of the new world. By the end of the first year, we anticipate having up to 100,000 children worldwide of various nationalities and religions who have come to recognize the importance of realizing the core values, as will be agreed upon by UNESCO and the Ashlag Research Institute (ARI).<\/p>\n

The Means<\/strong>
\nThe means to achieve the goal is by creating an online environment that facilitates an evolutionary educational process.<\/p>\n

We will build an environment in which children will undergo an evolutionary process turning them into tolerant, responsible and considerate human beings who understand the opportunities and responsibilities of being a citizen of the world.<\/p>\n

The environment will enable children to partake in various activities with other children throughout the world, which will help them to feel their interconnectivity with friends they will make all over the planet.<\/p>\n

They will understand and learn through components\/activities that will be part of the site that they have an opportunity to improve humanity through their actions and intentions. We believe that the exposure to this environment will change the children, turning them into \u201cglobal, integral adults,\u201d as they gradually learn to live the core values of UNESCO and the ARI.<\/p>\n

Methodology and Monitoring<\/strong>
\nThe language, perception, principles, and values are those that have been portrayed herein. However, they must be conveyed through activities, games, and other means. At the moment, what is needed is to translate the ideas into actions and the messages into educational aides which the children are familiar with.<\/p>\n

Certain indexes must be established to measure the success of the process, and the development of the educational process will be accompanied by constant monitoring of quality and methodology.<\/p>\n

Alongside the educational and methodological monitoring, we will set up control and tracking systems that will constantly monitor the progress of the project in terms of participation on a country by country basis, reaching the goals and targets that were determined in advance, as well as meeting the intended timetables.<\/p>\n

Control Group — the Proof<\/strong>
\nFrom the onset of the program, we will be able to track the impact of the environment and the success of the method through a control group that will include children who match the age groups defined as target audiences. Parents and educators will also assist. In addition, we will make the results available to interested educators who would be willing to participate and publish studies based upon our work.<\/p>\n

In Stage One, the control group will consist of children from around the world who speak
\nEnglish, Spanish, and Russian, and who have different mentalities and religious, cultural, and socio-economic backgrounds.<\/p>\n

As a side note, interactive online study programs have been a growing trend in recent years, but most of them are incomplete or insufficiently comprehensive, and hence do not address all of the issues with which we would like to work.<\/p>\n

Review of Similar Sites<\/strong>
\nOut of all the educational Internet sites that the ARI team examined, none attempted to connect the participants to one another. In other words, the work there is individual and takes place one-on-one with the computer.<\/p>\n

Most sites do not address social issues at all, nor do they engage in teaching values.
\nIn conjunction with the program, as part of the second stage, we will develop a \u201clife skills\u201d study program for use by educators and educational institutions around the world.
\nThe target audiences primarily fall into three categories: children, parents, and teachers.<\/p>\n

Children<\/strong>
\nAges 8-12 and 12-15<\/strong><\/p>\n

We have selected these age groups for several reasons:<\/p>\n