Launching date was Oct 2004
on occasion of the Evolution of World Order Conference / Science for Peace Round Table, Toronto/Canada, organized by the Council on Global Issues >>>
[Global Action Priorities paper]
Programme
Video Conference
WFS Reception


Welcome to the World Future School Online LearnScape.

The WFS is closing a Missing Link between pacemaking representatives of the sustainability movement, youth, formal schooling and informal learning environments. It opens access to authentic resources and organisations, and provides youth, learners and teachers with a universe of best practices for sustainability learning and projecteering in the class-room, self-guided learning and higher education. The ultimate goal is to effectively qualify and empower youth for active democratic participation in advancing societies towards sustainability.

In a nutshell, the WFS

- is a training resource for youth leadership, netizenship and fair global citizenship, bridging formal education and self-guided learning.
- is a Virtual Reality Representation of the "Sustainability Movement", providing authentic overview and insights.
- nurtures students' self-localisation in globalisation, personal development and connection to civil society organisations and democratic participation.
Presentations on the World Future School

On-site:
More about the WFS, a Guided Tour, and Your place in it!

Downloads:
- WFS Introduction: 9 slides Powerpoint or 15 slides Powerpoint
- WFS Info-Flyer PDF
- PNYV Positive News Youth Views Online-Magazine Info-Flyer PDF

Philosophy and approach
- WFS Development History 1-page DOC
- Setting up ISLEs (Informal Sustainability Learning Environments) inspiring lifelong self-guided learning and self-organised societal participation; online & as 2-page PDF
- Installation informeller GSE-Lernumgebungen in Schule und öfftlichem Raum Info-Flyer PDF
The WFS & Positive News Youth Views online magazine have recently been presented and shared at:

and received highly positive feedback. Collaborations for introducing Positive News YV into education environments and launching multilingual platforms are unfolding with volunteers from 18 nations.

The first element of the WFS has been activated!

Positive News Youth Views Online Magazine is a most easy to install Informal Sustainability Learning Environment for schools, youth clubs, offices, the public. View the ISLE concept here. It only takes fifteen minutes and two dollars of printer ink to install changemaking spirit in your school. An update is available every fortnight.
Visit Positive News here.
Full information on the project, its global reach, how to contribute and participate, installing a Positive News Board in schools, launching National and Regional Editions, even Radio Shows in any place in the world is available in the Download Centre.


"Positive News" has been tested with Canadian teachers and students:

From: Julia Morton-Marr
Sent: Monday, November 08, 2004 10:58 PM
To: E., Doreen
Subject: PNYV print edition

Doreen
Your school is the first to receive the 1st Edition of the Positive News
print version from Germany. It is on Sustainability Education. Yea!
Please, could you TEST this for us in the upper classrooms. Eric also would like it
to go on a passage way Positive News Board for kids to read. One on the Staff Room
table and elsewhere where it might get read. Eric would like some feedback
in a day or two, so that he knows how it was received.
Thanks, Julia

From: "E., Doreen"To: Julia Morton-Marr
Subject: RE: PNYV print edition
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 16:19:53 -0500

Julia,
After sharing this newsletter with some staff, and parents,
They were thrilled with it. The information on the young boy from Ottawa and the fundraising he did from when he was six years old, she decided to use it with her grade 8 class. She loved it. She said it made her cry. The parent thought it was well done, and something the students of
H.F.Catholic school should read.

Thanks for sharing it with us.
Love and Peace,
Doreen
The World Future School online learning environment is under development for the
UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development 2005 - 2014, following the course of the
Earth Charter
United Nations Charter
Global Action Priorities
Global Sustainab. Education
Omnicultural Learning
Netizenship
Call for Participation !

Institutions, organisations and individuals adding to the creation of functional, sustainable societies in the spirit of the Earth Charter (view it in your language), please connect to us for re-presentation of your activities in the WFS LearnScapes.

Please e-mail information on your activities / resources, including links to your website/s.
Open Volunteer Positions !

Participation and volunteering :

We have exciting work and tasks to share with online volunteers: 
- journalist and co-editor activities (Positive News and LearnScapes)
- programming co-editable environments and a WIKI
- graphic design of LearnScapes and associated projects
- networking into school and youth environments
Connect for take-off!
For information, cooperation and support:

e-mail: office@worldfutureschool.org
c/o Positive Nett-Works Association
House of Democracy and Human Rights
Greifswalder Str.4, 10405 Berlin, Germany
phone: 0049 (0) 30 - 69 53 64 69
mobile: 0049 (0) 176 - 2205 9374

The WFS is being developed in the frame of Positive Nett-Works Association, a non-profit NGO operating from Hannover & Berlin, Germany.

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