Teachable Tech Inc.
is an association of educational consultants formed in 1983.
The company's mission is to take advantage of media and
communications technologies to support and enhance student
learning through improved educational methods and materials. Its
purposes are:
- writing curriculum to integrate the disciplines;
- incorporating critical thinking skills across curricula;
- integrating video and on-line technology into the classroom;
- including media literacy as an integral part of the classroom curriculum;
- creating innovative methods and materials for new educational media;
- producing and implementing professional development, including distance learning.
Over the years, Teachable Tech has attracted a broad association of writers,
consultants and advisors, covering a wide range of educational experiences, and
including classroom teachers, from K-12 and across curriculum, college professors,
freelance writers and editors, research librarians, television/video production staff
and computer graphics designers.
In 1987, Teachable Tech began designing, researching, writing and uploading
daily, weekly and monthly electronic teaching guides to integrate video technology
into social studies and science. We have been responsible for
classroom support material for ABC's
Classroom Connection and ABC
NewsConnect, The Weather Channel's Weather Classroom, CNN NEWSROOM, CNN's
Science & Technology Week,
Inside Politics and others.
Teachable Tech's online guides prompt students and teachers to explore the
Internet to define their own learning paths and support their own learning styles.
Adobe School's online strategies incorporate software and technology "how-to"
into curriculum-based lesson plans. Working in conjunction with Prentice Hall,
Teachable Tech broadened educational horizons across the World Wide Web,
linking up-to-the-minute information to schools across the country. ABC Classroom Connection, a quarterly online and
print magazine, insures that ABC programming is available and effective for classroom
use.
Teachable Tech has created over 200 "hard copy" guides for videos available
through ABC, HBO, The Weather Channel, Time-Life Education, Turner Broadcasting,
and others. Videos and guides range from classic drama through scientific or historical
documentaries to news and feature reports.
Teachable Tech has developed, distributed and implemented professional
development modules to support video technologies, telecommunications
and media literacy in the classroom.
Video Tech and Weather Tech
are our newest entries into the technology education classroom, with teacher support and
training, as well as hands-on, student-directed activity modules.
With The American Red Cross and Allstate, Teachable Tech has developed curricula
and implemented training for Masters of Disaster.
With The Weather Channel, we have developed CD-ROM support material and online links, classroom
connections and feedback loops for Project SafeSide and LOOK UP!,
as well as video conference guides for cable links to classrooms. With RoweMedia, the
National Park Service and South Carolina Educational TV, we have developed multimedia kits for
electronic fieldtrips to incorporate online resources, interactivity and distance learning
(http://www.pbs.org/beringlandbridge/). Collaborations such as these prepare Teachable Tech
and its cadre of innovative educational consultants to be at the core of the educational
technology revolution.
