Funny how none of these sources are available on broadcast or cable TV, except for PBS. Television could be one of the greatest educational tools in history, but instead it is full of mindless entertainment. When I first heard of TLC "The Learning Channel" on cable TV I thought it was a great idea. So tell me, what have we learned from "Honey Boo Boo" and "Sex Sent Me to The ER"? There is no learning on the "Learning" channel. I'm afraid that The History Channel has become a total loss, also.
I have found that several of my PBS subchannels such as
Mhz Worldview and
PBS Create have good content, as well as
PBS Kids shows for kids. If you have pay TV, there is some real educational content on the National Geographic channel,
Discovery, and Animal Planet. In some states, there are also state funded educational channels that have some distance learning content. Here it is the
Utah Educational Network, UEN. Locally, it is broadcast on KUEN.
Sadly, the two greatest educational tools we have - TV and internet - are the home of mindless reality shows and cat videos.
