On Monday, Discovery Education announced its new Discovery Education Science Techbook™ aligned to the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). Designed specifically to help teachers transition to the NGSS framework, the Techbook is the latest addition to Discovery Education’s portfolio of award-winning digital textbooks. The new NGSS-aligned Science Techbook fully supports the instructional shifts required by the new standards, embraces the philosophy of three-dimensional learning and is designed to help educators adapt their…
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Watch Live as Discovery Education Introduces its Math Techbook™
Discovery Education announced today the launch of Math Techbook™, the latest in a series of award-winning interactive digital textbooks from the leading provider in digital content and professional development for K-12 classrooms around the country. Math Techbook was developed by Discovery Education’s team of expert math educators and features dynamic, Common Core and state standards-aligned content, interactives, videos, digital tools, and game-like activities. There are also a series of useful…
Discovery Education Celebrates the Future of Learning
On Thursday, Discovery Education opened its doors to thousands of educational leaders for the first Future@NOW: Transition to Digital Classrooms international conference. The event, hosted at One Discovery Place, also was streamed live to more than 1,600 sites nationwide, and featured many influential leaders, including Discovery Founder and Chairman John Hendricks as well as Senior Democratic Member on the House Education and Workforce Committee, George Miller (D-CA). At the event, Discovery…
Discovery Education to Host Inaugural Future@NOW: Transition to Digital Classrooms
2013 has been a year of exciting milestones for Discovery Education, with the expansion of techbook offerings, the recent Beyond Textbooks event, and now, the inaugural Future@NOW: Transition to Digital Classrooms conference. Today, Discovery Education and Digital Promise, a nonprofit organization chartered by Congress to spur innovation in education, in conjunction with many other leading education organizations, will launch this new conference at Discovery’s Headquarters in Silver Spring, MD to discuss one of the…
Discovery Education Hosts EdTech Influencers for ‘Beyond Textbooks’ Event
On the heels of announcing the exciting news that Discovery Education will be developing a mathematics book for its award-winning Techbook, Discovery Education hosted its second ‘think tank’ style event last week with influencers in the education technology space. The event, Beyond the Textbook, was designed to be an open dialogue about the state of education and how future iterations of technology like Discovery Education’s Techbook can be improved to even…
Discovery Education to Expand Techbook Series to Include Math
Discovery Education announced today that it will be expanding its line of award-winning interactive Techbooks to include Mathematics. Working with educators, students and technology experts across the country, Discovery Education will be developing a line of middle and high school level Math Techbooks to be released in 2014. The innovative line of Techbooks are revolutionizing education by removing barriers to learning and utilizing new technology to adapt lesson plans to…
Discovery Education Expands ‘Techbook’ Offerings
Technology is transforming the way that students are learning even more rapidly than before. (Personally, I remember fighting to be the kid advancing the film strip with the beep, before automated projectors and the rise of DVDs.) Our Discovery Education team has been leading the way in enriching the classroom experience and improving student performance and engagement through digital content for years (read more about this from Discovery Education CEO…
Technology & Education: From ‘Digital Corners’ to ‘Digital Classrooms’
Today’s guest post on Discovery Blog is from Bill Goodwyn, President of Global Distribution and CEO of Discovery Education at Discovery Communications. One of my colleagues told me that recent data suggests that generations are now measured in six-year increments. This means that your 16-year-old could conceivably belong to one “generation” and your 10-year-old to another…all based on the fact that new technology is introduced so rapidly that it fundamentally…