Titicaco Communicaring School
Titicaco Communicaring School will promote education and dialogue for and between students in schools in Sweden and developing countries. Any school who has computers and internet connection in atleast one classroom will be able to participate. Already schools in 19 countries has expressed a desire to participate.

We will match educational content in accordance to national curriculums and invite teachers to run courses with their students that demand working together with students from all over the world.

1. E-learning - Impact oriented education, multilingual pedagogical e-learning in several subjects for children.
   
2. E-community – For a global dialogue, global understanding and creating friendship among all people. eTwinning matching schools and students from different countries together in tasks and discussions creating mutual understanding and respect.
   
3. E-democracy – Democracy training so children may learn and practice how to form thoughtful opinions and informed decisions.

Titicaco Communicaring School will deliver educational content and inspire dialogue in the following main areas.

• Basic training
• Problemsolving
• Knowledge exchange
• Entrepreneurship
• Leadership
• Lifestyle

Titicaco Communicaring School is built for one of the most important missions of our time – global education and dialogue to create understanding and friendship among all people.

Most educating content will be provided by global NGOs, educating organizations and schools.  The educating content will be focused the following subjects:

Problem solving and impact oriented education:

• Tools for fighting climate change
• Tools for fighting: poverty, hunger, spreading of diseases, discrimination of women
• Catastrophe preparation emergency response in order to meet increased climate catastrophes.
• Ethics, moral, self esteem and cultural inheritage; to make every child grow and feel secure within herself
• Health and sexual health, lessons primarily made available by NGO´s and other organizations
• Environment, water provisioning and agriculture, to increase living standards and improve basic conditions for life
• Human Rights article 26 stating that:
  Education shall promote understanding, tolerance and friendship among all nations.
• United Nations Convention of the Child, to understand and be able to interpret these rights in the child´s own context
  
  Article 13; The child shall have the right to freedom of expression; this right shall include freedom to seek, receive and impart information and ideas of all kinds, regardless of frontiers, either orally, in writing or in print, in the form of art, or through any other media of the child's choice.
  
  Article 14; States Parties shall respect the right of the child to freedom of thought, conscience and religion.
  
  Article 17; States Parties recognize the important function performed by the mass media and shall ensure that the child has access to information and material from a diversity of national and international sources, especially those aimed at the promotion of his or her social, spiritual and moral well-being and physical and mental health.
  
  Article 30; In those States in which ethnic, religious or linguistic minorities or persons of indigenous origin exist, a child belonging to such a minority or who is indigenous shall not be denied the right, in community with other members of his or her group, to enjoy his or her own culture, to profess and practise his or her own religion, or to use his or her own language.
  
• Language training, basically all participating students will be able to practice Spanish, English, Chinese and other languages live with students from Sweden and developing countries
• Knowledge exchange and cultural exchange
• Problem solving information bank by sharing experience from performed projects.
• Mathematics and physics, complementary to the basic training already available in school
• Practical project management; activation, project management and implementation of school projects
• International Relations and understanding.
• History, legends and culture, here students will be able to add content
• Cultural exchange, poetry and dialogue with students in other cultures

Education focused in inspiring entrepreneurship and leadership:

• Entrepreneurship and simple business training, how to start a business and make a better living. One of the main goals is to inspire and accelerate an entrepreneurial development in participating schools. 
• Leadership, modern leadership and inspiration. One of the main goals is to inspire and practice leadership in a wider range in participating schools.
• Globalization, internationalisation, understanding and impact in each individuals environment and life
• Discuss global development, problems and possible solutions
• Democracy and gender equality, practical learning of how democracy works and how leadership is created
• Exchange programs and global projects, our platform will provide tools for knowledge exchange and making students from different countries being able to perform joint projects

If you want to understand our choice of method it is good to first read this review giving a historical perspective on untraditional teaching methods.
Cuban, L. (1986). Teachers and machines: The classroom uses of technology since 1920. New York: Teachers College Press.

United Nations Convention of the Child

Titicaco Communicaring School is a e-school, e-community and e-democracy platform who support the United Nations Convention of the Child&n and makes it simple for students in participating schools to live up to and exercise the rights of article 12,13,14,15,17,28,29 and 30 by our special educational internet community.

E-learning

In Titicaco Communicaring School, children will receive, participate in and shape impact oriented education programs complementing the traditional education programs in schools. We especially want to encourage characteristics such as entrepreneurship, problem-solving and active leadership.

The educational platform and pedagogical structure has been inspired by Kunskapsskolan where every course is built on the following steps:
1. Introduction, a teaser with the purpose to make the student interested in the subject and eager to get the knowledge
2. Presentation of goals, to make clear to the student of the goals of the education
3. Presentation of task, mostly practically oriented tasks who are to be reported to the teacher through Titicaco Communicaring School.
4. Begin class
5. Diploma
6. Evaluation, both from teachers and students.

Titicaco Communicaring School will have a reliable pedagogic model with clear educational goals for every student. The pedagogic model has been specially developed for effective learning via the Internet. In Titicaco Communicaring School all students will get an introduction to every course, in that way every student will increase his/her interest and enthusiasm for the subject. All courses are finalized with a test and practically performed exercises. The student will also get a diploma as a final reward for the studies he/she has carried out.

Simple to add courses and educational material and translate educating content
An important part in the creation of Titicaco Communicaring School is that the educator and the associated company or global NGO will be able to create and add new educational areas very easily, courses are created by means of a special template that later on have to be approved by the head department within Titicaco Communicaring School before it can be used by the students.

The global system is user friendly and simple to use it provides templates for all editing or updating activities, for instance when a course needs to be translated, she/he clicks then on the course that is available in a window and he/she fills in the compiled course and saves it.

Content adaptation strategy:

1. Translate
2. Localize
3. Modularize
4. Originate

E-community
The aim of dialogue is to create educational courses and set them in practice. Education within Titicaco Communicaring School will imply very much cooperation among students in order to implement a project. These projects will result from dialogue amongst students in various schools. Duties will be given from Titicaco Communicaring School to students from various cultural levels to be solved.

A short description of some of the community functions:
• Secure login procedure
• Personal presentation
• Personal network, where you are able to see which of your friends are logged on
• Simple to publish articles, comments and proposals in a non anonymous environment
• Simple to participate in discussions
• Personal calendar
• Personal messages
• Personal surveillance of interesting subjects, debates, articles
• Personal matching of interests
• Clubs for closed dialogue within certain interest groups

E-democracy
From dialog raises questions that usually engage many people. In many cases where a question engages more than one hundred individuals the question might be raised to a democracy question. In this case there will be created a “democracy page” in Titicaco Communicaring School in which invites to participation to a major number of individuals and people who has a genuine interest for this kind of debate. This happens by the system sending an e-mail to the people who has given in his/her profile that they are interested in that area, in this case democracy issues. After a thorough discussion about the matter and presentation of the facts within this area there will be the possibility to vote about how to proceed with this, for instance, it could result in a project. In that way youngster will be able to make changes both locally as globally.

A short description of some of the democracy functions: 

• Surveillance of democracy debates
• Voting for leaders in debates
• Adminstration, surveillance of large debates
• Push for democracy debates through several system functions
• Simple to performing of votings

Administration and multilingualism
The Titicaco Communicaring System is built for one main purpose – global education and dialogue. To be able to let teachers of different user knowledge and IT experience be able to participate and contribute to the development of Titicaco Communicaring School it is essential that the system is built for intuitive functionality and administration. Another essential issue for creating success with Titicaco Communicaring School is that each teacher, student and partner may administrate the platform in his or her own language. Therefore we have made it simple to add a new administration language.

Mission Titicaco Statement
We believe that most of the problems in this world come from poor communication and understanding among people. We also believe that the solution to most problems begins with increased understanding and communication among people. Therefore we bring education and dialogue opportunities through Titicaco Communicaring School to children all over the world.

Mission Titicaco is Communicaring for a new world

Ivan Daza