During the last school week in Armenia, Mrs Nelly Khachatryan, NUR`s referent teacher at Eurnekian school in Etchmiadzin, carried out a poll among students, teachers and parents regarding the incorporation of technology through the XO in their classes.
Below you can see the pupils results.
NUR team www.nurarmenia.org
Original by Nurarmenia.org – Newsletter
| Dear Friends,
International Mother Language Day has been celebrated every year since February 21st 2000 to promote linguistic and cultural diversity and multilingualism. Languages are the most powerful instruments to preserve and develop our tangible and intangible heritage. All moves to promote the dissemination of mother tongues will serve not only to encourage linguistic diversity and multilingual education but also to develop fuller awareness of linguistic and cultural traditions throughout the world and to inspire solidarity based on understanding, tolerance and dialogue. General Conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in November 1999 Â We encouraged our students to honor the Armenian language and his creator Mesrop Mashtots through their work in the XO. Â Below we share some of their excellent work.
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Nagorno-Karabakh is a landlocked region which seceded from Azerbaijan in 1991, and has been engaged in a  low-grade military conflict involving Azerbaijan and Armenia ever since.  Recently they have launched a New Education Project to improve primary education across the region.
Many of the children in the region have schools, and some have internet access.  This week, they launched a small OLPC project, deploying laptops to 3,300 students in 16 connected primary schools in the cities of Stepanakert (the region’s capital), Shushi, and Karin Tak.
Vladik Khachatryan, Minister of Education and Science of Nagorno-Karabakh, was present at the launch.  He announced,
This program will improve the quality of education of elementary school students in the NKR, and what is more important, will make more information available to them and their families… within a short period of time we will be able to establish equal educational opportunities in all NKR.
Rodrigo added,
Education is a key factor to breaking the vicious cycle of ethnic hatred and violence for children who live in conflict zones.
I look forward to seeing the project develop, and hope that the recent focus on children and education brings stability and peace to the region.
