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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: It's Lit!: How Fantasy Reflects Our World

For Students 9th - 10th
Fantasy novels are more than just hundreds of pages worth of swords and magic! Okay, there's some of that. But it's also a lens to what our society finds important to our pasts, our presents, and future. [5:59]
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Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: It's Lit!: Why Did They Make Me Read This in High School?

For Students 9th - 10th
What makes a book important? Why are some books required reading in high school, while others are lost to history? Check out this video essay. [5:46]
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: It's Lit!: The Case for Fan Fiction

For Students 9th - 10th
For years writers of fan fiction were shamed, the butt of jokes, and even subject to copyright litigation. However, in the past few years, with the fan fiction writers of today becoming the published mainstream authors of today the past...
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Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: It's Lit!: The Beauty and Anguish of Les Miserables!

For Students 9th - 10th
Victor Hugo's Les Miserables is one of history's most famous novels and one of the longest-running musicals in Broadway history. On this special episode of It's Lit! we explore how Les Miserable became both a national and revolutionary...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: It's Lit!: How Greek Mythology Inspires Us

For Students 9th - 10th
Ancient Greek Mythology has worked its way into modern pop culture so deeply that it would be an almost Sisyphean task to compile every way it's manifested! [10:08]
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Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: It's Lit!: Death as a Character

For Students 9th - 10th
Death as a character reveals how we process one of life's greatest mysteries, and there's a lot more breadth to how the grim reaper is depicted than you might think. [8:57]
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Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: It's Lit!: Feasts & Fiction: Famous Food in Literature

For Students 9th - 10th
Food varies wildly from place to place and from culture to culture; since humans are such sensory creatures, using words to evoke the experience of eating is an excellent way to bring a text to life. [8:57]
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Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: It's Lit!: Unreliable Narrators

For Students 9th - 10th
Can an unreliable narrator help readers see the world through multiple lenses? Check out this video [7:35] to find out.
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Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: It's Lit!: Fear of Ghost...writing

For Students 9th - 10th
What is ghostwriting and why does it exist? The answer is less frightening, but more complicated, than you'd think. [8:38]
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Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: It's Lit!: Can You Judge a Book by Its Cover?

For Students 9th - 10th
Get to know the story behind some of literature's most iconic book covers in the latest episode of It's Lit video essay. [7:43]
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Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: It's Lit!: Why Sci Fi Is a Mirror on Society

For Students 9th - 10th
While science fiction is associated with Mars, robots, and cyberpunk, its origin story is shaped throughout several centuries. Check out the origin of science fiction with Lindsay Ellis in this video. [6:09]
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Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Ruff Ruffman: Searching and You!

For Students 2nd - 5th
Learn to use internet search engines like a detective. [3 min, 4 sec]
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Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: The Intimate, Indispensable Gif: The Art Assignment

For Students 9th - 10th
Artist Toyin Odutola takes a new stance on portraiture, bringing a novel and ingenious approach to the classic art technique. Through this video, learn how culture and identity can be the driving inspiration for intimate artistic...
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Instructional Video
New Zealand Ministry of Education

Te Kete Ipurangi: E Competencies and Key Competencies

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Kellie McRobert outlines some work that has been done linking e-Learning and the key competencies. In this talk Kellie McRobert explains how she has developed an e-Learning framework she calls 'e-competencies' and how these have been...
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Instructional Video
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Ross on Digital Tools and the Arab Spring

For Students 9th - 10th
Former Senior Advisor for Innovation of the U.S. Dept. of State discusses how the use of E-diplomacy fosters social movements and the pros and cons that come with this use. [5:35]
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Instructional Video
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Alec Ross on Defining Digital Diplomacy

For Students 9th - 10th
Former Senior Advisor for Innovation of the U.S. Dept. of State discusses how diplomacy can be performed with changing global demographics, with changing power structures, and most prominently with a series of new technological tools....
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Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course Computer Science: Computer Vision

For Students 9th - 10th
Today, we're going to talk about how computers see. We've long known that our digital cameras and smartphones can take incredibly detailed images, but taking pictures is not quite the same thing. For the past half-century, computer...
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Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course Computer Science: Early Computing

For Students 9th - 10th
Hello, world! Welcome to Crash Course Computer Science! So today, we're going to take a look at computing's origins, because even though our digital computers are relatively new, the need for computation is not. [11:35]
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Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Newshour Extra: Historic Changes in Egypt: Lessons in Democracy

For Students 9th - 10th
Footage from the Independent Television Service gives background and historical context to the Egyptian revolution of 2011. First hand reports on elections and the power of digital media.
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Instructional Video
Other

Youtube: Safety Center Community Guidelines

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource explains how to increase your safety on YouTube, online with methods for handling online harassment. Includes sections devoted to teens, cyberbullying and suicide prevention.
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Instructional Video
Other

Watchwellcast: Safe Web Surfing: Top Tips for Kids and Teens Online

For Students 9th - 10th
It's easy to forget that the information we put on social media is visible not only to our actual social circles, but to our friends' friends and their friends' friends. This video breaks down the importance of setting strict privacy...
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Instructional Video
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Talbott on Globalization and Non State Actors

For Students 9th - 10th
Former Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott discusses redefining the tools we need to deal in a world that's global, that has one sort of digital flow of information, and has an influx of non-state actors. [8:20]
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Instructional Video
Planet Nutshell

Planet Nutshell: Net Safe: Be Kind Online! (K 3)

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In the real world and online it's important to treat others like you want to be treated. How do we act when we are on the Internet? This video talks about good manners when we are on the Internet, things like using good words, not rude...
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Instructional Video
Other

It's Okay to Be Smart: Why Vaccines Work

For Students 9th - 10th
A history of vaccines and how they work to eliminate disease is given in this video. [7:22]

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