» .j '•'• / * . ' • Z • •f. •• . *• » -4 t r • / * ' • • • ' ’ I - ? m » • » .. fr-» ' • * - ' . • • • P age B2 O ctober 18, 1995 • T he P ortland O bserver E d Il CU t l Cable Sends Kids Around The World What 14-year-old Sean Ness can ’t forget is the car It was no bigger than a pup tent and about as shapely. He’d never seen one so small. Yet it carried a whole East German family Now here it was, right in front of his eyes - and 3,000 miles away. How can that be? Last May, Sean was am ong eight e ig h th -g ra d e rs at Lawrenceville’s Sweetwater Middle School who took an electronic field trip to Berl in From his school’s com­ puter lab, he watched a program about World War II and talked live with experts and Berliners. “ I wish we could have more classes like this,” Sean said. So does I umer Adventure Learning, which conducted the Berlin field trip for some 200,000 students nationwide. I his unit of Atlanta-based entertain­ ment conglomerate Turner Broad­ casting System Inc is trying to sell schools - for a profit - on a new way o f learning. The “field” trips, which usecom- puters, cable TV and satellites to transport children around the world, are divided into three consecutive one-hour sessions In addition to Berlin, Turner Adventure has taken students to the Rift Valley in Kenya, the Gettysburg battlefield in Penn­ sylvania and the Okefenokee swamp in Georgia. At each place, there were ex­ perts and residents who answered students' questions. They did so by telephone or through electronic mas- saging on America Online, the com­ mercial computer online service. "It’s much better than reading a textbook,” says Laura Frick, an eighth- grader at Berkm ar High School in Lilburn, where students also have taken electronic field trips. Laura’s words are just what Gary Rowe wants to hear. He runs Turner Adventure. And Rowe’s looking for kids and teachers interested in a learn­ ing experience outside textbooks and lesson plans. We re putting the idea out in the schools and asking teachers and students to help us finish this inven­ tion, says Rowe. Many are skepti­ cal. “ W e’re trying to inspire schools to do new things," Rowe says. “W e’re asking them to set aside the bell schedule for a few days. “Some schools are ready and jum p on the opportunity, adds Rowe. Many oth­ ers are not. While schools may be reluctant, kids are not, Rowe says. W hat they like is live e x p e ­ rience, he ex p lain s. “ They want re a l-w o rld s tu f f .” T h a t m eans c h ild re n s tu d y in g G e tty s b u rg “ w ant to know w hat it felt like to carry a heavy rifle w earing a wool uniform in 9 0 -d e g re e h e a t,” a c ­ co rding to Rowe. For Sean, seeing the car, the I ravant — then talking about it with an East German teenager — trig­ gered a revelation. “ I had no idea how different other places are from my home,” he says, still slightly amazed. Putt For Education Helps Local Schools T he p u ttin g g reens are closed and the re su lts have been tallied P u tte rs o f all ag es h elped raise m o re th a n $ 9 6 ,0 0 0 fo r lo c a l sc h o o ls d u rin g W ash in g to n M u­ tu a l’s th ird an n u al Putt for E du­ ca tio n co n test. The checks, ranging from $50 to $2,300, are being distributed to 665 p u b lic and p riv a te e le m e n ta ry schools, junior highs, high schools and colleges in Oregon and Wash- ington as part o f Washington Mutu­ al’s sponsorship o f the Pro-Am at the Fred M eyer Challenge golf tourna­ ment. B etw een June and A ugust, W ashington M utual sponsored 59 Putt for E d u catio n ev en ts. M em ­ b ers o f the general p u b lic w ere in v ited to a ttem p t to sink three out o f three putts and w in $50 d o n a tio n s to the school o f th e ir ch o ic e . This was the third year Wash­ ington Mutual sponsored Putt for Education. In 1993, $50,000 was raised for schools. Last year, suc­ cessful putters raised that total to $71,000. “W e’re very excited to help lo­ cal schools through the Putt for Education," said Mike Amato, W ashington M utual’s senior vice president for Oregon consumer bank­ ing. “Schools are the cornerstones o f our neighborhoods and we feel it’s important to support their work.” Putt for E d u catio n is a p ro ­ g ram o f W a s h in g to n M u tu a l CAN! (C om m itted A ctive N eigh­ b ors), the c o m p a n y ’s com m unity involvem ent p rogram . For d e­ cad es, W ashington M utual and its em ployees have been actively involved in h elp in g m ake their com m unities b etter p laces to live and w ork. 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