Are you wondering if we have “Educational Specific” content?

Have you found yourself looking at different TV recording companies and getting confused with the terms?

Are you wondering if we have “educational specific” content?

The answer is “very definitely YES”

Let me list the content for you:-

1. Everything on ABC/Schools.

2. Everything on SBS/Education.

3. Everything on www.enhancetv.com.au – that’s educational content across all digital channels and Foxtel as well.

4. Any Free-to-air program requested by our subscribers who are teachers, librarians, curriculum coordinators and principals.

5. Almost any Foxtel program requested by our subscribers who are teachers, librarians, curriculum coordinators and principals.

6. Foxtel – History.

7. Foxtel – Discovery.

8. Foxtel – Knowledge.

9. Foxtel – Science.

10. Foxtel – National Geographic.

11. Foxtel – Animal.

12. The Foxtel list of channels just keeps getting longer!

13. Podcasts

14. Spanish Lessons

15. French Lessons

16. Chinese Lessons

17. English Lessons

18. Maths Lessons

19. Documentaries

20. Breaking News

21. Interviews

22. Biographies

23. Debates

And MANY more!

And best of all; all the content is available FREE of ANY Advertisements!

www.tv4education.com an amazing cost effective service for education !

The question is not “Do we have School specific content –because we do!”

The questions that should be asked is:-

1. How current and relevant TODAY is the School specific content? In this digital age anything more than a few months old now seems past its use by date.

2. Am I engaging my students with content that is evolving, ALWAYS current and always relevant or am I using ‘yester years’ old and dated content?

3. What about the issue of ‘diversity’ of content. Is the content created by one commercial company with limited budgets and experience or by global educational multimedia specialist drawing from the wider global community?

4. Are we using content that is so narrow and Australian centric in preparing students for a global world with global issues?

5. Are we using old and dated content we have used over the last few years simply because it is convenient or are we up to the task of engaging our staff and students with content that is as current as today and relevant for tomorrow!

We have purposefully chosen not to title the content in this matter as the term itself is outdated. The term itself, “school specific” was derived by commercial content companies at a time when TV could not be used in education because of copyright issues. In reality what we are doing with TV4Education is bringing educational multimedia resources from TV Foxtel and the Web, in any form, from anywhere, easily accessible to the new tech savvy generations.

Fast forward across the Education timeline and we find tens of millions of dollars from tiny education budgets going to Screenrights, notably from Australian government sectors and Catholic Education. In a time when budgets are depleting especially across the Education fields you have to really question when tens of millions of dollars are put into anything, so let’s take a closer look.

TV and Foxtel content had become viewed as such a valuable resource that the money spent on getting Screenrights to allow schools to use this content was approved by government sectors (we all know just how much time and research government sectors spends before actually investing money into any project.) Essentially we can safely see that at this point, TV and Foxtel content itself had become “school specific”. Not only that, but for that much money out of any budget to be spent every year, the value of the content had to have been deemed incredibly valuable.

We will not ever use the term “school specific” and here’s why; we unarguably know that Libraries are an integral part of the education process. How can people truly be educated without proper resources? It is then that we have to ask at what point does information stop being a resource. It doesn’t! Whether you have a podcast, TEDtalks, re-enactments of historic events, documentaries, TV series, DIY shows, news coverage, special reports, debates, interviews, online lesson plans, movies, online lessons or TV shows in other languages (just to name a few of the resources we offer) it is, without question a resource.

Let us not forget that we are now addressing a generation that accesses the world from their pocket, whether it is to shop, read and research, watch movies or listen to music. At the same time, one thing that will never change about children and youth is the “why?” attitude. A child will often ask why as a show of curiosity. Often youth ask to see how a topic applies to them. For whichever context they are asking it in, we give you the tools to address both. Firstly we give you the online learning tools, lesson plans, online lessons, school targeted shows and movies to address a topic, but we also offer you the ability to show them how the topic applied in the past from documentaries, interviews and re-enactments, as well as how it applies to them right now through current news, debates, famous speakers and special reports.

Even then, it sounds like a lot of work doesn’t it, to source all relevant data for your topic and even worse, what if you miss the show you wanted? Lucky for you we will be freeing up your time by doing this for you. We know how busy educators are, that’s why we ask that you let us focus on getting all the resources to you, so that your valuable time is freed up to address your field with resources in hand, just by clicking “search”. Getting the resources to you is only one side of TV4Education. We pride ourselves on offering a huge range of relevant content in a beyond convenient manner. All of our content can be streamed onto any device whether it is windows, mac, android, safari, any device. We don’t stop there either, we edit the ads out of ALL of our programs. You read right, NO ADS! This gives you the added benefit of time, we eliminate the mundane fast forwarding and give you pure content, so that you are equipped to run your class without interruptions.

While some of our opposition are specifically pushing the term, “school specific” content, we challenge you to see how old the shows/content are and in reality how relevant it really is today. We have all become used to fast moving technology, and we must ask how can old “school specific” content truly captivate students enough to want to learn? While you are at it, you may want to look at their “school specific” content and then search the same criteria in our system to see what additional episodes, docos, movies, interviews, discussions debates and more you get for the same topic.

THAT is TV4Education.