Discovery Education Partners to Add Content

Once again Discovery is doing its part for education.  Kids and adults love the Discovery Education tools.  It has a multitude of Social Studies Apps for all ages.  One of my favorites involves current events for the middle school crowd.   "Though a partnership with MacNeil/Lehrer Productions, Discovery Education introduces Global Wrap, a summary of the week’s news from across the globe.  Developed for a middle school audience, Global Wrap presents a series of short reports to help make complex news stories easier to understand.  - See more at: http://www.techlearning.com/Default.aspx?tabid=67&entryid=6759#sthash.EgoVlu1V.dpuf."
I have already incorporated this into my lesson plans.  Current events is a big part of my social studies class.  If you have ever seen adults on the Tonight show get quizzed about who the president is or how a certain major event is progressing?  You will understand what I mean. Many Americans have no clue what is going on in the world let alone their own country, yet we allow them to vote.  A freedom that not everyone has and most in the United States don't partake in.  I am doing my best to race a generation that is involved and has a basic level of knowledge about the world.

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Discovery Education Partners to Add Content. (2013, November 16). Retrieved November 18, 2013, from www.techlearning.com/Default.aspx?tabid=67&entryid=6759