Jumpstart
Projects
A program that connects learners and cyber
knowledge
New York Times photo
LEARNING
FROM ONLINE KNOWLEDGE
There
is no reason to wait:
Our
opportunity is to end the isolation of any kid on the planet from what
is known and, in fact, to put them all virtually on the same page!
The flow of what is known by humankind on to the Internet has provided a totally new opportunity to link children and learners of all ages to study subjects. The Internet contains free and stunning learning resources from dictionaries and basic math tables to the full spectrum of classics, technology, and the fundamentals and latest research in the sciences and technology.
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Enter a Jumpstart Pavilion
The
Jumpstart Project
This start-up activity introduces the knowledge
now available from the Internet to students in specific countries
or cultures.
What is a Pavilion?
A Jumpstart Pavilion is a locale-specific webpage linking
out to locale-relevent sources on the Internet such as reading materials,
language dictionaries and grammars, writing guides, math, geography,
science, history, technology, and museums. Each pavilion also leads
into the 2003 Showcase of Useful Knowledge where a broad spectrum of
general study subjects are used in a commons shared by students entering
from all of the pavilions.
The
word pavilion comes
from the Latin and French words for butterfly,
catching the idea of spreading out
like a butterfly's wings [Webster's 1966 unabridged].
A jumpstart project enters the Internet virtually and spreads its wings
over perninent knowledge to those learners for whom it is maintained.