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Discovery Education
Powered by Discovery Communications, the #1 non-fiction media brand in the
world.
Global content from 170 countries
makes possible the highest-quality,
up-to-date, educational-media
library available today
Are Your Classrooms Ready?
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Who are 21st century students
and what are their needs?
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Do your students have the
resources to make their
presentations and projects
interactive?
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Are you serving the needs of
students that require remediation?
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Are you preparing future teachers
with the resources that they will be
using in the future?
21st Century Students Entering College
Snapshot of Young Adults & Media
Young people (18 & under) today, spend an average of 6 ½
hours a day with media
96% of all students engage in social networking
If MySpace were a country, it would be larger than
Germany, France and the United Kingdom
57% of teenagers online create content
(approximately 2 million teens)
Facebook, the social-networking site, has
reached 200 million members
21st Century Students
Remediation Needs at the College Level
 43% of students at public twoyear institutions have enrolled
in a remedial course*
 29% of students at public
four-year institutions have
enrolled in a remedial course*
*Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors. (2008). Strong American Schools.
Retrieved April 9, 2009, from http://www.EDin08.com.
Engage and Inspire Students
Build and Reinforce the Skills Students Have
General Student Use
Engage technologically-savvy students through a medium
that is familiar and comfortable. Students can research a
broad array of subjects and use various online multimedia
to enhance their projects, labs, and speeches.
Remediation
Help bring all students up to the collegiate level by
providing resources for remediation in needed subject
areas with thousands of digital resources.
Prepare Education Leaders
Colleges of Education
Prepare future educators with the digital tools and
resources that are being used in today’s schools.
Teach students to how to build 21st century
classrooms.
Discovery Education in Today’s K-12 classrooms
• 1 million educators are already using Discovery
Education digital services
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Discovery Education streaming is accessed by
more than half of U.S. schools
Discovery Education streaming University
Enhance course content with high-quality video clips.
Videos are designed to work easily into a lecture or outside
assignment.
Chaptered video clips: Provides
instructors with flexibility to target
learning points and reinforce concepts
Editable video clips: Selected videos
can be shortened or lengthened, renarrated, combined with clips from other
editable movies, or used for student
multimedia projects
Discovery Education streaming University
Over 20,000 content-specific clips for university-level
students covering a variety of subject areas:
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Algebra
Geometry
Statistics
Calculus
Economics
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Psychology
Child Development
American Studies
European History
Ancient History
World History
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Physics
Chemistry
Biology
Life Sciences
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Composition
Grammar
Literature
Reading
• Music
• Dance
• Theater
• World Languages
• Documentation
• Preparation
• Study Skills
• Career/Work Place Skills
Discovery Education streaming University
150+ Publishers Contribute
Content to Discovery
Education streaming
 Scholastic
 NASA
 PBS®
 BBC America
 Library of Congress
 Math Mastery
 Discovery Channel
 Science Channel
Discovery Education streaming University
More than Just Videos
Asset Types
Number of Assets
Encyclopedia
Articles
23,000
Images
20,000
Sound Effects
3,000
Events
2,500
Songs
400
Speeches
40
User-Friendly Navigation Facilitates
Quick Access to Desired Content
• Keyword Search
• Advanced Search
• Search with media types
Guided Navigation
by Subject
Multiple Settings & Options
Allow Professors to Use Video to Fit Their Student’s Needs
Email a Colleague
Video Segments
Add to Folders, Assignment
and Quizzes
Video Ratings
Media Settings
Straightforward Access to Resources
Access “On This Day”
resources for all subjects
Quickly access your My
Content
Recommended resources
and featured content