Win Grammarly Premium! In celebration of DEN Teacher Appreciation Week, our friends at Grammarly are excited to offer their extension and a free premium account for 10 lucky Discovery Educators. What is Grammarly? Correcting student work demands a lot from teachers whose time and resources are already stretched thin. The challenges of learning English grammar
Calendar of Cool: Gutenberg Bible Printed
On March 22 the 1455 the Gutenberg Bible was printed. Johannes Gutenberg invented the first practical printing press, changing the world forever. Up until that time, books had to be handwritten, and were painstakingly copied out by monks. This made books rare and expensive, meaning they were only available to large libraries and to the wealthy. Gutenberg’s
Getting APPy with Techbook: Book Creator
Book Creator is the simple way to create an iBook on the iPad or an eBook on your Android. Both students and teachers can create unique books from their Discovery Education resources. Use videos, animations, images, and songs from Techbook or Streaming. Add text and your own voice to narrate your books and bring them
November 2014: Literacies for the digital age: Media literacy
This is the third in a series of blog posts highlighting the digital literacies our students will need to succeed. The first post dealt with financial literacy, the second with visual literacy, and this one will provide you with some ideas on how to infuse media literacy into the curriculum. The literacies I feel need
Tim Childers: Teaching With Just One Image
Anyone knows that after a powerhouse speaker like Dr. Lodge McCammon, you need to follow up with an equally potent powerhouse, and that’s exactly what Discovery Education did. Meet Tim Childers, L&N STEM Academy, Assistant Principal of Tennessee’s only Apple School of Distinction, (and yes he helped make it one), blogged for TN DEN Leadership
Calendar of Cool: First National Braille Challenge
Today marks the 13th anniversary of the first-ever National Braille Challenge. The National Braille Challenge is a unique academic competition created to encourage blind children to learn Braille, the written alphabet used by the blind. The competition tests students’ skills in various language arts subjects, and is open to students from the U.S. and Canada.
June 2014: The importance of now
The Importance of Now: How digital learning can help schools implement the Common Core State Standards and other standards-based curriculums (Parts of this post are part of a white paper written for TechSmith and used with permission.) INTRODUCTION Your curriculum has been mapped to the Common Core State Standards or other standards-based curriculum. Now what? How
Fun Fact Friday: Reading Rainbow Kickstarter
Did you know that Levar Burton recently started a Kickstarter (a crowd funding service) to re-launch an all new Reading Rainbow site, and that it raised 1 million dollars in 24 hours? It’s true! Burton, and Reading Rainbow have been covered by Fun Fact Friday before. His tireless efforts to promote reading and literacy have
Joy of Reading
The Joy of Reading is a series of three editable video within Streaming Plus. Each are about 20 minutes long and are a great resource for both teachers and parents. There is a teacher’s guide available which has classroom activities, parents letters, checklist and ways to get parents involved with home reading. This a appropriate for
SOS: Story Elements Soup
Welcome to Spotlight on Strategies Challenge! Our S.O.S series provides help, tips, and tricks for integrating DE media into your curriculum. Story Elements Soup (pdf version) Background In order to critically think about and analyze literature, it is important for students to understand story elements. Identification and analysis of