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FRONTLINE -Digital Nation
Over a single generation, the Web and digital media have remade nearly every aspect of modern culture, transforming the way we work, learn, and connect in ways that we’re only beginning to understand.
In Digital Nation, airing Tuesday, February 2 at 9 PM on PBS (check local listings), FRONTLINE producer Rachel Dretzin (Growing Up Online) teams up with one of the leading thinkers of the digital
age, Douglas Rushkoff (The Persuaders, Merchants of Cool), to continue to explore life on the virtual frontier. The film is the product of a unique collaboration with visitors to the Digital Nation Web site, who for the past year have been able to react to the work in progress and post their own stories online. Dretzin and her team report from the front lines of digital culture—from love affairs blossoming in virtual worlds, to the thoroughly wired classrooms of the future, to military bases where the Air Force is fighting a new form of digital warfare. Along the way, they begin to map the critical ways that technology is transforming us, and what we may be learning about ourselves in the process.
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American Experience
The Bombing of Germany
February 8 at 8PM on KLRN
On September 1, 1939 — the first day of World War II in Europe — President Franklin D. Roosevelt appealed to the warring nations to “under no circumstances undertake the bombardment from the air of civilian populations.” Just six years later, British and American Allied forces would carry out a bombing campaign of unprecedented might over Germany’s cities, claiming the lives of nearly half a million civilians. The Bombing of Germany examines the defining moments of the offensive that led the U.S. across a moral divide.
Faces of America
Wednesdays, February 10 - March 3 at 7PM on KLRN
What made America? What makes us? These two questions are at the heart of the new PBS series Faces of America with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Building on the success of his series African American Lives (called by the New York Times "the most exciting and stirring documentary on any subject to appear on television in a long time,") and African American Lives 2, Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. again turns to the latest tools of genealogy and genetics to explore the family histories of 12 renowned Americans.
College Call-In 2010
February 25 at 8:00 PM
It’s time for KLRN’s 5th Annual College Call-In, connecting parents and students with college admissions and financial aid counselors. Taped at a local coffee house, the Call-In features segments from the PBS series, Roadtrip Nation, tips from college experts, and some fun surprises. This year, students and parents can call-in or log-in to learn more about going to college. During the airing, the Call-In’s website will feature a live twitter stream for audience members to “tweet” their questions to the experts. Special thanks go to the San Antonio Education Partnership, and our program sponsors--Alamo Colleges, Our Lady of the Lake University, St. Mary’s University, San Antonio Federal Credit Union, Texas A&M University-San Antonio, University of Incarnate Word, and University of Texas at San Antonio.
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Discovery Educator Network Webinar Series
The Discovery Educator Network (DEN) is a global community of educators passionate about teaching with digital media, sharing resources, collaborating, and networking. With over 25,000 members providing professional development to over 250,000 educators worldwide, the DEN connects teachers both on-line and in-person. Discovery Educators have exclusive access to a wide range of resources, professional development activities, networking opportunities, exclusive Discovery Educator
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PBS TeacherLine Courses to Consider
PBS TeacherLine Courses to Consider
Grades: Kinder-12
Hours: 45
Online facilitators take on many important roles and, thus, wear different managerial, technical, social, and pedagogical hats. Effective facilitators must know how to provide formative feedback, offer technical guidance, foster community, and communicate 'from the side' in a way that encourages learners to construct knowledge together. This course will formally introduce you to those roles and provide you with the opportunity to try on and practice wearing several of these hats. Through research-based articles and readings, discussions, collaborative projects, and other interactive experiences, you will have multiple opportunities to build and master online facilitation skills. A simulation environment (Facilitator Training Lab) will give you an opportunity to practice specific facilitator skills. To synthesize all your learning, you will create a case study based on the experiences of a hypothetical online facilitator as your final project. Note: We strongly recommend that learners have experience with online learning prior to enrollment in this course."
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"Read with Me: Developing Early Literacy with Children" is designed for preschool teachers and caregivers who want to have fun reading, singing, and sharing stories with children. In this course, learners will explore all the different ways they can use stories with children to develop pre-reading and pre-writing skills such as oral language and vocabulary development, phonemic awareness and reading comprehension. Learners will be engaged in a collaborative experience as they learn some different ways that multimedia can facilitate the sharing of stories with children. The course provides research-based articles, video examples from the KERA (public radio and television stations for North Texas) best practices video, Read with Me, online interactives and online and on-screen resources from PBS. Note: Learners will need access to preschool-aged children to complete this course. Learners have two weeks to complete each session of the course.
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PBS Teachers Offers New Collection of Resources for Teaching Critical Economic and
Financial Literacy Skills
Based on the recent global financial crisis, to help students understand complex economic concepts, PBS Teachers has developed Access, Analyze, Act: From Economic Theory to Financial Reality, a special collection of educational digital media resources about the economy for use in school and home learning environments. Click here to learn more about this free resource.
Wilson and Ditch: Digging America – A New PBS Social Studies Series
“Wilson and Ditch: Digging America” is a new PBS web-only social studies series on American Culture, History and Geography by The Jim Henson Company. To learn more about the series, meet the characters and preview the site, click here.
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PBS Teachers Webinar for February
February 23, 2010
Exploring the "Faces of America"
Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Curriculum Connection: History and Social Studies
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