Great set of courses to immediately help teachers and their students. I wish all PD was this good!

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Community Review for KQED Teach

Bob K.
Bob K.
Minarets High School
O Neals CA, US
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I love KQED Teach classes as teachers are able to join a cohort or work at their own pace. In both manners, the courses are rock solid with sound sources and strong pedagogy. Every course I have taken has helped my students and my classes through resources, techniques, or activities. I can't say enough good things about KQED Teach. I just with I had more time to take them all.

How I Use It

I love the resources and ideas I get from KQED Teach. For example, lately, I completed one of their Media Literacy courses, "Making Media in the Age of Misinformation," which had great resources for teachers to use to help their students understand the differences between propaganda, misinformation, and disinformation when making their own media. Because of this class, we analyze the Declaration of Independence more clearly and we have built a class code of ethics to use for our own work and to help judge the sources we use in class. KQED Teach is great!

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Stacey C.
Stacey C. Monta Vista High School Cupertino, CA
January 27, 2020

Amazing site with a wide variety of digital literacy self placed classes that offer immediate connection to classroom curriculum. Current and relevant topics that relate to all subject areas. Supportive environment of fellow educators.

KQED Teach is an invaluable teaching tool because it offers relevant course content in a supportive environment. Each course I've taken truly has been an interactive experience with support from the KQED staff as well as other educators taking the course online. It is refreshing to be able to have the opportunity to learn and exchange ideas in such a supportive and caring platform. In turn, I've been able to create curriculum that uses the digital literacy skills that have been that focus of the courses to teach my students not only 21st century skills but also how to respectfully interact online like a community that KQED modeled for me through their courses. I would encourage any educator to take a course on KQED not only for professional enrichment but because through my experiences with KQED Teach I've been able to create a better classroom community. My students are more and more able to use independent choice and express their own thoughts and ideas through digital media. Their truths that I see reflected in these projects is one of my passions for teaching and I cannot thank KQED Teach enough!
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Mariana G.
Mariana G.
August 5, 2019

Awesome site to grow your media literacy skills

I cannot say enough about the benefits of KQED Teach. Loved being able to complete the courses whenever I had time and being able to see what others were doing/interact with other teachers that were learning the same skill was a great experience. Because of Teach I have been able to teach my students how to become responsible creators of media. Thank you KQED teach for an amazing source of professional development for teachers.
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