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Educators
Engage your learners with high quality, content standards-aligned KQED multimedia and curricula integrating 21st century literacies. Join with other Bay Area educators in trainings and events designed to support your use of these resources.
Learn how a changing climate affects polar bears, Arctic foxes, walruses and beluga whales with this video and educator guide from Jean-Michel Cousteau: Ocean Adventures.
Featured Lesson Plan:
Making Big Waves
If you have dreams of surfing the perfect wave, there is so much more to learn than just hanging-ten. Before you learn to surf the big waves, you should learn the science behind how they are created.
Featured Event:
Andy Warhol and Music
Did you know that Warhol designed 46 album covers, and was a pioneer in light and sound shows? Educators are invited to explore Warhol's influence on the music industry in a workshop at the de Young on Fri, Feb 20.
Arts
KQED's resources for arts educators highlight local artists of all disciplines and may be used to develop arts curricula, create arts assessment rubrics, and deepen students' experience of art.
Science
Generate interest in Science and stimulate students' imagination with KQED's free standards-aligned science education resources.
Social Studies - Language Arts
Bring an array of voices and histories to your students with KQED training and curricular resources for Social Studies and Language Arts teachers.
Post Secondary Education
KQED offers an array of trainings and resources for bringing the principles of media literacy into the curriculum for novice and veteran educators and instructors in adult schools, community colleges, and universities.
PBS.org/Teachers
Multimedia resources and professional development for America's preK-12 educators from PBS.
Teachers' Domain
A database of local and national multimedia resources based on popular PBS programming.
Media Literacy
Foster independent thinking and 21st century literacy skills with KQED Media Literacy resources.
Learn more: EdServices@kqed.org, 800.723.3566
Blog: learning.now @ PBS Teachers
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Boosting Public Broadband, One Library At A Time
This week, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced a $7 million grant to invest in the expansion in broadband access in libraries across seven states. While $7 million may sound like chump change from a foundation that routinely spends hundreds of millions at a time on public heath philanthropy, it serves as an important reminder of the continuing role that libraries play in bridging the digital divide.
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Lori Drew Convicted in Megan Meier Case
Last week, a jury in California convicted Lori Drew on misdemeanor charges related to the Megan Meier suicide case. Though public sentiment wanted to see her convicted specifically on Drew cyberbullying Meier into committing suicide, in the end she was found guilty of violating MySpace?s terms of service. Was justice served?
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Case Closed for Julie Amero
Julie Amero, the substitute teacher subjected to a judicial roller coaster ride over whether she intentionally exposed a group of students to inappropriate computer images, ended her legal limbo by agreeing to a plea deal this Friday. It?s the end of a long road for Amero, but was justice served?
Blog: media.infusion @ PBS Teachers
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Teaching World History in the Digital Age
Like so many other Americans, my early perception of world history was focused through American and European lenses. The civilizations that shaped the West were considered to be more deserving of our attention than those that had fallen under the boot heels of European imperialists in the 18th and 19th centuries. This attitude was certainly a reflection of the times. Throughout the 20th century, Western civilization dominated world affairs, caused the bloodiest conflicts in human history, and pushed forward some of the most innovative technological advancements ever seen.But, as we know, the world is changing. Today, the ancient civilizations of India and China are experiencing resurgences in economic strength that are reminiscent of the power held in those regions long before Vasco da Gama made his way around the Cape of Good Hope and into the Indian Ocean. The implications of this new shift in global power, both historic and modern, change everything.