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BBC Learning Hub: Free K-12 Resources, Bluey Lessons & Virtual Field Trips · Integrate This! Ed Tech Podcast

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  Welcome to Integrate This, your go -to EdTech
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  and let's integrate this. Hey, welcome to the
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  Integrate This EdTech podcast. I'm David Werner.
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  I'm joined by Kimmy Fink and Dana Truby of BBC
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  Learning Hub. Welcome to our podcast. We're happy
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  to have you join us. Thank you. And so we want
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  to kick things off here a little bit and just
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  talk about first and foremost, we are at ISTE.
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  What does BBC Learning Hub have going on at ISTE?
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  Well this is our second year. We launched last
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  year at ISTE and so we're really glad to be back
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  this year. And this year we have crazy Bluey
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  giveaways because it's a big year for Bluey with
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  the movie coming out and BBC is the one who actually
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  licensed it to Disney and we have incredible
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  learning resources all around Bluey. We also,
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  so that's one of our main things, so everyone
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  keeps coming to the booth to have their picture
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  taken with Bluey and Bingo. We're also really
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  proud to share all of the new learning resources
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  we've developed this year. Yeah, and we like
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  to get into those a little bit. So if a parent
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  or an educator goes to BBC Learning Hub, what
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  can they expect to find once they're in there?
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  Well, the thing they keep being really surprised
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  to find is that all of the resources are free.
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  and there's very little that you have to actually
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  log in for. You log in when you want to download,
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  but all of our videos, which are clips from landmark
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  BBC programs like Planet Earth... and Bluey and
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  so many other things are all free and all packed
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  with learning resources around them. There's
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  lots of printables. There's articles that are
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  leveled for different reading levels. There are
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  virtual field trips. There's so much you can
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  do both at home and at school, and it's all ad
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  -free. Yeah, and I saw that. And we'll get into
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  some of the content and things, but I do need
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  to talk, Kimmy, first about the Bluey aspect,
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  because they're... Bluey is obviously a part
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  of that, right, part of BBC, but I just have
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  to say one of the things my daughter, Isla, she,
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  we were on the BBC Learning Hub and the first
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  thing I see is the 50 things to do during the
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  summer, right? So obviously I printed that out
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  for her and she's checking them off here, you
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  know, now that summer's going on. So can you
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  talk a little bit to like the Bluey content and
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  things like that that are on there? Well, I'm
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  so delighted that you've, that you found that
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  we're so proud to be hosting so much Bluey content.
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  We are... the only place where you can get licensed
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  Bluey lessons that have been created. with Ludo,
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  which is Ludo Studios who created Bluey. So you
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  know that what you're getting is in the voice
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  of Bluey. It's in line with all of the things
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  that you and your children love about Bluey.
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  So we are home to 15 social and emotional learning
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  lessons, and each of those lessons is associated
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  with an episode of Bluey that teaches some kind
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  of important life skills. So you might be watching,
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  you might watch Yoga Ball, that episode, and
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  learning how to speak. up and to use your voice
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  and we have activities that were developed by
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  early educators to help students build those
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  build those skills so we have all of those and
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  then we also have several kind of standalone
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  worksheets which is what you found with the things
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  to do this summer so there's coloring sheets
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  there's all about me type activities there's
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  really so much that's available and useful for
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  teachers and again it's it's free. Yeah, and
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  I want to talk a little bit too about the so
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  there's a bunch of content on there and one of
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  the things I notice also is that you can filter
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  the content right so you can you can click on
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  what grade level they're in or age group that
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  they're in and so what is it what makes how do
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  you make decisions around what goes into the
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  learning hub? Well, we're expanding the content
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  all the time. Right now we have a lot of rich
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  social studies and science content. In the near
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  future we're adding math and literacy and English.
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  We do have a framework of what the core... areas
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  are for us and that's our global knowledge framework
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  and those are five key areas that are of the
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  largest importance to our hub and that's media
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  literacy, environment and sustainability not
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  surprisingly, global citizenship so that's everything
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  about learning to be a citizen of the world.
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  financial literacy, and what am I missing? Digital
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  literacy. Which is of course safety online but
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  more than that also just becoming an active user
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  of technology in a smart way. We often think
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  that kids are naturally digital literate and
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  they're actually not. They need to learn those
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  skills. in an effective way. So those are areas
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  that we're looking to develop and then we're
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  also looking at what is the great content that
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  the BBC has that people are asking us for and
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  we have teachers and parents come up to us and
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  say, hey I love this particular show and we will
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  actually go and source that show and add it.
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  That happened today even. Yeah, so and the other
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  thing I noticed on there too is well there's
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  a variety of content, but I noticed the dinosaur
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  virtual tour. Yeah. So with that one thing that
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  stood out to me or I thought about with that
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  is we work with a lot of rural schools and so
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  field trips might be a little bit harder to come
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  by or do them frequently or things like that.
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  So is that something that you take into account
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  for those virtual field trips or how does the
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  virtual field trips all get designed and brought
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  to BBC Learning? We're so excited about those
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  and we have a whole slate of them planned for
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  this year. There's a couple reasons, certainly
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  for who gets to visit a dig site. Even if you
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  are a place that gets to, you don't get to visit
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  a dig site. But it also makes it really easy
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  for teachers if the kids can navigate it themselves,
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  if they can navigate through the content. So
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  we're looking at making rich. learning environments
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  where kids can click around and click on different
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  locations or within the picture. In this case,
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  it's a map of the world and it shows you five
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  different dig sites and the dinosaurs that were
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  found there. And then we also have quizzes and
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  other activities and so kids can... can navigate
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  it on their own and it's discovery, what'll be
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  there behind that. But we're planning one for
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  Blue Planet 3, for Under the Ocean, and several
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  others, one on nocturnal animals, one on gardens,
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  like all different kinds of ones that we're planning
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  for this year. Okay, yeah, so it's a little inside
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  scoop on what's coming out, some of those. So
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  then the other thing I wanted to get into a little
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  bit is the media literacy side, and it's news
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  bites. So news bites, BBC news bites, we've known
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  for a while media literacy is extremely important.
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  Why in your opinion is it so important right
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  now? We've developed news bites and then we're
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  planning to continue to expand it and right now
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  it's a daily international news story that's
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  appropriate for kids. We want We want to first
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  be a trusted source for news for kids and for
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  adults. And then we also want to develop a news
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  habit with kids where, oh, I feel comfortable
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  watching the news. I know how this works. I understand
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  news stories. I know how to listen for what's
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  important. So right now we have fun sort of.
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  They're comprehension questions, but they're
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  not examy. They're meant to be playful and to
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  spark curiosity. And so the idea is teachers
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  can watch, can put it on as a daily starter or
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  after recess and be like, here's five minutes,
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  let's learn something about the world, let's
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  do the questions. And then we're about to, for
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  back to school, gamify it a little so that they
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  can see their streaks, so they can see. Oh, did
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  they do really well on this? Did they do better
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  than 76 % or 50 %? What are other people guessing?
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  So that they can see that a little and then we're
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  adding, making them more puzzle -like so that
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  they're not just straight questions. And our
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  hope is to build up that daily relationship to
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  learning about the world. Great, and one of the
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  things too, it's four, six through eight currently.
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  Is that going to expand at all? Will it expand
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  to other grade levels or anything? We are aiming
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  it at 6 through 8. We feel that it definitely
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  still works for high school. And as we develop,
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  we're going to be doing more and more media literacy
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  content. We have a unit coming out for media
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  literacy for high school this year. Younger news
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  is hard. That'll take us a while to get to, I
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  think. Sure. Because you'd need to. go at an
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  entirely different pace. But right now, we aim
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  at middle school and feel that it can be used
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  in high school as well. OK. And then there's
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  the newsroom connection, too. How is that different?
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  unique about that newsroom portion of the website?
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  The News Bites is really the daily news story.
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  The newsroom is all of our news connection, news
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  assets. So that includes science news, that includes
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  news for fun, as well as all the resources that
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  we're developing for teachers around teaching
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  the news. So we have a whole lesson series there.
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  We've got different kinds of worksheets that
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  you can use for comprehension or for finding
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  the main idea for. extrapolating and and and
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  learning like well what's being said here whose
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  point of view is this is there evidence like
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  all of that kind of smart thinking that we want
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  them to do when they're dealing with non -fiction
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  okay great and the other thing we have to get
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  into too is the planet earth side because as
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  you as you scroll through there and you look
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  at different content pieces you can connect to
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  that so you talk a little bit about how BBC's
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  Planet Earth is brought into the curriculum and
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  the different content that's in there. So BBC
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  just celebrated a couple of really important
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  anniversaries this year. So this was actually
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  the 20th anniversary of Planet Earth from its
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  debut and then Sir David Attenborough, who of
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  course is our beloved documentarian, naturalist,
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  conservationist, amazing, celebrated his 100th
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  birthday. So we said we have got to do something
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  special and we have a ton of his content. So
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  we have clips from planet Earth, frozen planet,
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  blue planet. And so what we decided to do for
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  this particular collection and anniversary and
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  also looping in Earth Day was to take the, we
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  worked with the BBC Earth team and we identified
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  the eight most popular clips from planet Earth
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  and we created a passport. And these clips are.
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  pretty amazing you've probably seen one of them
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  there's one where it's the baby iguanas trying
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  to get to the ocean and they're being chased
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  by racer snakes it's quite exciting and quite
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  terrifying but we have these really exciting
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  clips um but we didn't want you know kids to
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  just be passive you know observers so we created
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  this passport and we put all of those locations
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  on a map and you go through this passport and
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  you you know go at stop one and you watch the
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  video and you're responding to questions and
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  you're illustrating and you go through all eight
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  of those and again they can do that pretty much
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  guided on their own which is what Dana was referring
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  to with our virtual field trips and then at the
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  end there's a quiz that they can do take to check
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  for understanding. We feel very fortunate to
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  have some incredible IP on our site, and it's
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  so engaging and valuable for students. Yeah,
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  and I can recognize that voice anywhere, honestly.
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  I remember getting like the Blu -ray version
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  of Planet Earth when it first came out. Yeah,
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  so as far as the communications and things that
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  you're doing with BBC, you have the newsletter.
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  What can folks expect if they sign up for the
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  newsletter to get some of the content or information
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  about the content in there? So we actually have
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  two newsletters. We have a primary and a secondary,
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  so for educators we have that. We're going to
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  expand to a parent family newsletter as well.
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  That comes out weekly and you can sign up for
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  any and all. And we share our latest content,
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  picks for the season or for time of year. It's
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  short and quick and easy to click through. We're
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  also on We are also on Instagram and Facebook,
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  and we're expanding to LinkedIn. We're expanding
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  to YouTube. Awesome. So another question I want
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  to ask you is, obviously, we have a lot of educators
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  here. And so they're thinking about like, OK,
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  I want to use BBC Learning in the classroom.
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  Is there any stories or things that you can talk
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  about that are related to examples of classroom
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  use that you've seen or been inspired by? I was
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  thinking about, so I was a classroom teacher
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  for 13 years and at the elementary level and
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  I was thinking about a time when we were studying
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  food chains and my students were saying, we were
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  talking about beluga whales and they're like,
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  well, what hunts a beluga whale? And I said,
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  well, polar bears. And they looked at me like,
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  are you joking? Like that is unbelievable. It
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  was like the mind blown emoji, you know? And
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  so the idea that I now work for a place that
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  can put out Super high quality amazing video
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  that cannot just they're not just taking it from
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  me the teacher right saying oh Well, I just learned
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  that from a teacher. They can actually see it
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  is so powerful So I love that we get to put out
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  these things that make things real for kids in
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  a way that you can't do you know be a Other other
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  media. Yeah, and so one of the things I wanted
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  to just wrap up with is you kind of got into
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  this a little bit Dana, but the the things that
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  you have coming up. So there's new virtual tours
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  and things coming out. What do you want to highlight
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  or what are you kind of talking about in the
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  vendor hall about the things that you have coming
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  for BBC in the next year or so? A lot of big
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  highlights. Let's do five. We've got A huge unit
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  on Blue Planet, which is all about the ocean,
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  when Blue Planet 3 launches in January. We are
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  launching a huge collection of math and English
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  content that we don't currently have, that are
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  all videos that were designed for the classroom.
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  We're super excited about that. We're going to
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  add reading passages for all of our video because
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  we feel that while watching and connecting and
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  seeing the real is important, they still always
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  need that. literacy content. I think science
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  teachers are going to be really excited that
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  we are doing a science dictionary so like when
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  you take a term like lava we are going to have
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  a video short video clip for that or for condensation
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  or so we are we are not just doing longer clips
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  but we are when they need that exact term we
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  are going to come out with a clip of amazing
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  BBC Earth content that goes along with that.
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  What am I missing? Evolution. Evolution. It's
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  a new show that's launching this summer that
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  we are creating a virtual exploration around
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  that we think is really exciting for high school.
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  And that will be live by August. Awesome. Well,
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  great. So, guests that are watching, or if you're
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  watching, make sure that you check out BBC Learning
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  Hub. free content they have on their great stuff.
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  You heard a lot of it here. Kimmy, thank you.
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