NBC News Archives Now Available via Pearson
Pearson has
worked out an agreement with NBC
Learn, the educational arm of the NBC
Universal News Group, to provide educational videos to schools that are
aligned
with Texas Essential
Knowledge and Skills standards (TEKS).
NBC
Learn,
which now has an inventory of 17,000 education videos, can supply the
content to schools and classrooms via Pearson's
Realize learning management
system and its Online Learning Exchange platform, a digital library of
K-12 learning
resources.
The
videos,
culled from nearly 90 years of NBC News' archives, include featured
stories from programs like the "NBC Nightly News," "Today," "Meet the
Press"
and "Dateline NBC." The resources, prepared by NBC Learn producers who
have also
worked as news producers, include collections like Chemistry Now,
Changing
Planet, Science of NFL Football, Science of the Winter Olympic Games and
Finishing the Dream.
"When
students
can see events in the making, whether current or historical, it puts
them right in the center of the learning experience," said Bethlam
Forsa,
Pearson's managing director for learning services, "allowing them to
gain a
deeper understanding of issues, implications and context."
The
original
videos are full stories, typically six minutes in length or shorter —
complete with a beginning, middle and end — designed to allow teachers
to
engage students in discussion afterwards. Many are reported by some of
NBC's
best-known journalists over the years, including John Chancellor, Tom
Brokaw,
Tim Russert and Brian Williams.
For
a
free trial, Texas educators can visit pearsontexas.com.
"The
addition
of TEKS-aligned videos to the NBC Learn library, and the new option
allowing access through Pearson's instruction platforms, provides us
with
powerful tools for framing history and current events in context for
students,"
said Janice McNeil, library resource specialist and instructional
technology
liaison at Cypress Lakes High School in Katy, TX.
About the Author
Michael Hart is a Los Angeles-based freelance writer and the former executive editor of THE Journal.