Apparently, the Discovery Channel offers tutorials, video guides and instructions for students, administrators, parents interested in learning with Web 2.0 tools. Moreover, the website provides useful information about internet safety, media literacy and a blog that examines innovative assessment measures teachers may use with web 2.0 tools.
The most interesting aspect of finding these tools available to educators and students from a mainstream culture TV Channel/Web presence like Discovery stems from the fact the companies are beginning to understand the potential profit of providing tools and resources to educators looking to engage students with immersive and collaborative technologies. Today, it seems apparent that education, mainstream media, technology, cable, broadband are beginning to merge into a giant global sized mass, with various apps and tools designed to meet specific demands. We have tools for communication, organization, professional development, teaching, learning, video productions, social networking, literacy and assessment. This is merely a representation of the larger whole, with other disciplines outside of education, harnessing the same web 2.0 technologies to facilitate instruction and streamline data input (scanning medical records online in the cloud storage, testimonies and wills, as well as taxes, all filed electronically). Almost every major discipline has a demand for web 2.0 technologies and now even Mainstream Media companies appears to be merging with professional domains. The inevitability of culture, technology, entertainment and education merging together appears to be happening sooner rather than later.
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