Global Teenager Zambia launches new website

The Global Teenager Project in Zambia is a collaborative venture between the International Institute for Communication and Development (IICD), Schoolnet Africa and is coordinated locally by Trio Consult. The project was established in 1998 following a pilot Internet exchange between two schools in South Africa and schools in Netherlands.

The 15 GTP schools participating in Zambia are now part of the larger GTP network of 10,000 pupils in 300 schools over 32 countries across the globe. Pupils embrace the project because it makes learning fun and enables them to meet their peers online no matter where they are based.

GTP has two main aims:

• to foster inter-cultural awareness and understanding through the use of the Internet; and
• to promote new ways of learning and teaching in order to enhance the opportunities for young people.

The powerhouse behind GTP is the web-based ‘learning circle’ concept. Twice a year, under the guidance of facilitators and ‘country coordinators’, groups of 8-10 classes from different schools all over the world link up via e-mail or the Internet to form a virtual ‘learning circle’. The classes then select a theme from a shortlist of topics ranging from health, environment, human rights, globalisation, and ‘my life’, and then spend the following 10 weeks emailing others within the same learning circle.

The result of this successful project is a rapidly expanding virtual network of learners and educators in both the developed and developing world.  

Learn more about GTP and GTP Zambia.