About Virtual School Projects

The words on these pages and several of the drawings are mine. Some of the pictures are from other webpages, each of which is named and/or linked to give credit to the source.

The ideas I present are those of many people: individuals, companies, and organizations that are inventing, building, and putting in place ways that will provide learning on a global scale and will close the digital divide. I offer the suggested projects as pointers to a part, small or large, that you might be able to play in restarting learning and teaching in Afghanistan.

Yes, this is a futurist page. The future does not just happen: it is built. Connecting children to the bountiful knowledge now freely available on the Internet is a key role for all of us at this point in the development of the new digital era into which they have been born.

If you are reading this page, you are probably already helping. I hope some of the ideas and projects on the Virtual School Projects page will catch your further interest and action! I believe it is inevitable that over coming months and years, the projects I have described will become the way all children will learn in the 21st century. To help speed that day now in Afghanistan, you can contact the people dedicated to that cause at the Help Afghan School Children Org. HASCO.

My enthusiasm and activities are further explained here: About EdClicks.com

The deepest root of my enthusiasm grows out of my own childhood. I was born in 1936 as the worst years of the century for children began. In 1972 I had lunch in Washington with my friend Nosei Miyake who was born in Tokyo in 1939. We shared our memories of World War II, where my personal deprivations living in Texas were limited to rationed food and the death of an uncle in the Pacific, during the same years that Nosei was sent into hiding in the Japanese mountains. There we sat in a fine restaurant, both with excellent educations and exciting careers. Nosei went on to become a leading lawyer in Tokyo. These webpages are dedicated to the little children of today in the Hindu Kush and throughout Afghanistan. They are innocent of all that has happened in the past, and the root deprivation that could keep them from following in Nosei's high road to health, prosperity, and happiness is if we allow them to languish in ignorance.

Your comments and suggestions are very welcome.

Judy Breck