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Are you a teacher?  We want to involve you in Link TV’s GLOWE initiative. Join the Global Link Teacher Network! It's easy -- just send us an email with your name, the name and location of your school and let us know what grade/subject you teach.

One Nation Learning Guides

Muslims in America: Stories not Stereotypes

 A new educational initiative utilizing the One Nation film submissions, these guides are teacher-friendly, classroom tested and sure to get your students thinking and talking about Islam, tolerance, freedom of expression and what it means to be an American today.

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DirecTV School Choice™

DIRECTV GOES TO SCHOOL is a public service that provides qualifying K-12 schools around the country with free access to more than 75 channels of news, educational and informational programming--including Link TV! Click here to find out how you can get your school access to DirecTV School Choice!

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Know the News is a new, interactive media literacy initiative of Link TV. Check it out! The games and tools at knowthenews.tv will let you know TV news in a new way. Compare news coverage from around the world, test your knowledge of how news is shaped and even shape some yourself!

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Link TV and Youth Noise are now partners! Find, explore and network a cause! Check out Youth Noise and share with your students.

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Global Link of World Educators (GLOWE)

Think, Teach and Learn… All About Our World

 

Link TV is proud to launch the Global Link of World Educators (GLOWE) pilot initiative. We’re using Link TV’s media programs and dedicated learning guides to help develop global cultural and media literacy.

All learning guides meet national and state learning standards. You can easily access everything online.  However, if you would prefer DVDs and printouts of our learning guides, email us with your name and address and we’ll send you materials free of charge.

Join our Global Link Teacher Network today! We envision GLOWE as an ongoing participatory project with educators. By joining, you’ll receive innovative tools, media, resources and support through our Educational Outreach department. You can share your ideas about global education, and tell us what topics and Link media you’re interested in for your classrooms.  To become part of the Global Link Teacher Network, just email us with your name, the name and location of your school and the grade/subject you teach.

 


 

GLOWE NEEDS YOUR HELP!

 

We want YOUR feedback on our media and learning guides.

Please take our short survey and help us make the GLOWE program work better for you and your students!  The survey will take under 10 minutes to complete.  Start the survey here!

Link TV/GLOWE: bringing international stories and global perspectives to students and educators.

 


 

LEARNING GUIDES

Global Link Teachers Curriculum: GLOBAL PULSE

 

Global Pulse

Global Pulse is a fast-moving and informative television and web series that helps navigate the news of the world. Each 3-to-5 minute episode looks at the news, the world and ourselves in a new way.

Each day Global Pulse compares and contrasts news worldwide, as presented by diverse national broadcasters - tracking the important stories you might have missed, and finding new angles on stories you thought you understood.



Click on each learning guide to learn more.


Global Pulse: Media Frenzy and the Forgotten Refugees

 

LEARNING GOAL: How do we compare two humanitarian stories in the news: one from the United States and one international? How do we analyze media coverage and the way decisions about reporting are made? How can we construct our own news report?
Grades: 6-8     

Subjects: Language Arts

 

Global Pulse: Turkey’s Headscarf Battle

 

LEARNING GOAL: What is the ongoing controversy in Turkey about allowing women to wear the Muslim headscarf in public universities? How can we discuss the issue and connect this to our own lives? What is the relationship between religion and government, and what influence has each had over the other in modern societies?

Grades: 9-12

Subjects: Social Studies & Government

 

Global Pulse: Guantanamo Bay - The Constitution Asserted

 

LEARNING GOAL: What are the ongoing controversies concerning detainees, “illegal combatants,” and Guantanamo Bay? How does the global news media report on these controversial issues? How can we analyze the tone, target, and bias present in mainstream news?

Grades: 9-12

Subjects: Social Studies & Government

 

Global Pulse: War Isn’t News Anymore?

 

LEARNING GOAL: How does global media coverage of the war in Iraq differ between the United States and the rest of the world? 

Grades: 9-12

Subjects: Social Studies, World History

 

Global Pulse: 2008 Election and the Global Media

 

LEARNING GOAL: How did the global media present the issues and candidates in the 2008 US presidential campaign? What are the important issues and values in your community for our next president to represent and address?

Grades: 9-12

Subjects: Government, US History

 


 

Global Link Teachers Curriculum: LATIN PULSE / PULSO LATINO

 

Latin Pulse

Latin Pulse is a half-hour, bilingual English/Spanish news magazine that presents news and analysis on Latin America through the eyes of Latin American media.

Each program, broadcast with both English and Spanish subtitles, covers major issues presented by reports selected from newscasts from different Latin American countries. The topics are enhanced with live discussions involving experts.

 

Latin Pulse: Indigenous People in Latino America

 

LEARNING GOAL: Who are the indigenous people of Latin America, where do they live, and what are they fighting to protect?

Grades: 9-12

Subjects: Social Studies, World History

 

Latin Pulse: The Immigration Issue

 

LEARNING GOAL: What are the current issues and various perspectives of immigration in the United States?  What are the complexities of immigration policy and the various stakeholders this issue impacts?

Grades: 9-12

Subjects: Social Studies & Government

 


 

Global Link Teachers Curriculum: EXPLORE

 

Explore

Explore is a philanthropic multimedia project funded by the Annenberg Foundation that showcases extraordinary nonprofit efforts and leaders around the world. Through fact-finding missions to identify potential grant recipients, members of the Explore team see first hand where and how possible financial support might be used. Explore opens the door to a world most people never get to see - one that has been neglected by the mainstream media. Viewers meet the people affected by positive change catalyzed by philanthropy, and just as importantly, the leaders creating it.

 

Explore: China

 

LEARNING GOAL: What are some particular issues facing modern China, such as the environment, human rights, women’s issues, or education?
Grades: 6-8

Subjects: Social Studies &/or Language Art

 

Explore: India - Lesson One - Kiran Centre: Creating Future Leaders

 

LEARNING GOAL: How do educational opportunities to children with different abilities create future leaders?  How can I be a leader?
Grades: 6-8

Subject: Social Studies


Explore: India - Lesson Two - Fighting for India's Wildlife

 

LEARNING GOAL: How is India struggling to save its unique wildlife? What can be done to save animals in my own community?
Grades: 6-8

Subjects: Social Studies, Earth Science

 

Explore: India - Lesson Three - The Language of Dance

 

LEARNING GOAL: How is classical Indian dance a language as well as a story telling medium? How can I use body gestures to express myself?
Grades: 6-8

Subjects: Social Studies, Language Arts

 


 

This is just the beginning, and there's a lot more to come soon!  Please become a pilot member of the Global Link Teacher Network - email us with your name, the name and location of your school and let us know what grade/subject you teach.  We’ll send you updates, new curriculum and listen to your feedback on how to make GLOWE work better in your classroom.