KQED’s new, free, online learning platform will focus on improving educator media literacy in a safe, fun and social environment.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA — KQED Teach (teach.kqed.org), launching Monday, July 11, 2016 will provide a series of free, self-paced courses to help K-12 educators develop the media skills necessary to bring media production and communication to their learning environments. These courses will take place in an online platform developed by KQED Education that tracks user progress and encourages sharing and feedback through an integrated social community.
KQED Teach participants will have access to a wide range of social media and digital media tools allowing them to construct and remix media in multiple formats and across a variety of platforms while addressing many writing, reading, speaking and listening skills required by both the Common Core State Standards and Next Generation Science Standards.
“Increasingly, educators have demands placed on them to integrate media and media production into their curriculum, but a large percentage of them lack the 21st-century literacy skills necessary to make this transition,” explains KQED’s Vice President, Digital Media and Education, Tim Olson. “KQED Teach will improve educator media literacy and help busy teachers leverage media in their classrooms.”