Engage Students, Empower Teachers

Promethean and Channel One News, the leading television news network for middle and high school students, have joined forces to create Channel One News InterActiv, a truly authentic interactive learning platform.

Designed to engage students and empower teachers, Channel One News InterActiv (grades 6-12) and Channel One News InterActiv Jr. (grades 3-5) bring real-world stories to life with daily broadcasts that blend interactive news, technology, digital content and professional development. Relevant content and real-world video footage heighten students' interest and helps them understand complex concepts. With the integration of learner response systems and interactive whiteboards, students truly become active participants in the daily news broadcast, interacting with digital content in real time.

Channel One News InterActiv offers powerful tools to improve teacher effectiveness. Daily skill-building resources are embedded in all broadcasts, offering teachers a continuous opportunity to develop their technology integration skills, refine teaching strategies and improve productivity in and out of the classroom. Available anytime, anywhere and tailored to the teacher’s experience level, these resources are delivered in small, easy-to-understand portions, providing teachers convenient, continuous professional development opportunities.

Why Channel One News InterActiv?

Engages students
Provides authentic, relevant learning experiences that bridge the gap between the subjects students study and the real world beyond the classroom’s walls.

Promotes critical thinking
Daily interactive broadcasts offer students engaging, hands-on learning opportunities that promote essential life skills, such as critical thinking, problem solving and collaboration.

Provides immediate feedback
Students interact with the broadcast in real time, giving every learner a voice while enabling teachers to assess whole-class progress

Empowers teachers
Daily skill-building resources are embedded in all broadcasts, offering teachers a continuous opportunity to develop their technology integration skills, refine their teaching strategies, improve their productivity and become more effective.

Effective and affordable
Channel One News InterActiv is a low-cost solution that provides a wealth of high-quality content designed to engage students and improve teacher effectiveness.

Minimizes lesson preparation time
High-quality, customizable interactive lesson materials related to the daily broadcasts save teacher preparation time and make it easy for educators to extend learning opportunities.

Versatile
A wide range of lesson content is available for students of all ages and learning levels.

Key Features

• Seamlessly integrated—Integrated with Promethean learner response systems, ActivBoards and third-party interactive whiteboards to provide opportunities for hands-on learning and real-time feedback.
• High-quality interactive content—Fresh digital content, including customizable flipcharts and versatile lesson resources, is produced daily. Integrate ready-to-use content into warm-up exercises and assessment for learning activities or archive it for future lessons.
• Aligned to core subjects and standards—Content aligns with Common Core and state standards and covers the five core subjects of Math, Science, English, Social Studies and Geography.
• Timesaving resource repository—Rich supplemental interactive instructional materials can be used as is, or tailored to specific needs. Searchable by subject, keyword or standard, this interactive digital content is designed to engage students while reducing lesson preparation time.
• Age-appropriate content—Channel One News InterActiv offers content appropriate for middle and high school students, grades six to twelve, and Channel One News InterActiv Jr. is designed for grades three to five.
• Ongoing professional development—After the broadcast, teachers can build their technology integration skills with online professional development and video tutorials that relate to the skills and strategies used in that day’s program. Each day, at least one new skill is introduced, allowing teachers to scaffold their learning.

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