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Kidlink offers to:
 provide
the free
Who-Am-I? educational program to Native American
youth
include
their indigenous languages in
Kidlink's virtual infrastructure, with links to these
from the top page
help
build virtual communities for teachers, parents, and community members in
their languages.
Today's youth are highly interested in getting friends in other
countries. The eight-month, multi-lingual
Who-Am-I? assists by guiding them to more knowledge about
themselves, their place, rights, friends, families, roots, and by
bringing them in contact with youth around the world.
 To teachers,
Who-Am-I? is a means to classroom instruction within their
curriculum. When students have a purpose (to get friends) and an audience,
they want to read and write, and use numbers. They demand knowledge to realize
their purpose. Thus, it gives otherwise "boring" classroom tasks meaning
for students.
The program is also
a means for teachers to network and cooperate with peers throughout the
world.
To a community,
Who-Am-I? is a means to increase its youth's knowledge
and appreciation of their area, people, language, culture, the way the society
works, and history. It is also a means to communicate this to outsiders using
its students as agents.
Its students will be
set to collect and document elements of the community's culture that may
be about to get lost, and their publications may be used as learning material
in the community's language.
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