LA Times Features Games for Change Launch in Los Angeles
About 1,000 middle and high school students in Los Angeles are expected to design video games this school year that expose players to the importance of kindness, wildlife conservation or news literacy. The best student gamemakers could earn scholarships and other prizes. It’s all part of one of the first initiatives from the Annenberg Foundation […]
Take a 360 Virtual Reality Tour of the Wallis Annenberg Hall at University of Southern California
Explore the Wallis Annenberg Hall at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism through a 360 virtual reality tour.
The Smithsonian: Annenberg Learner Sponsors this Year’s Teachers of the Year Event in Washington D.C.
The Smithsonian Center for Learning and Digital Access, Annenberg Learner, and the Council of Chief State School Officers collaborated to produce the 2016 Teacher of the Year Day at the Smithsonian, bringing together 56 dedicated educators for a day of professional development training. The Smithsonian website details the event, which also marks a decade of […]
Gift to Drive Diversity Initiative at USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
Annenberg Foundation has awarded $5 million to the USC Annenberg School for Communications and Journalism in the form of a grant intended to support a multi-year diversity and inclusion initiative. The launch announcement on the USC Annenberg site details components of the long-term program: Recognizing that the most effective and innovative newsrooms are fed by […]
Take Part in StoryCorps’ The Great Thanksgiving Listen
Annenberg Learner is proud to support StoryCorps‘ The Great Thanksgiving Listen, a program that encourages students to record interviews with grandparents or other elders over the holiday weekend using the free StoryCorps app. With permission from the participants, each of these interviews will be uploaded to the StoryCorps archive in the American Folklife Center at the […]
Free App Connects Students, Naturalists Across the Continent
Journey North app lets users track wildlife migration in real-time.
Annenberg Learner Course: Neuroscience And The Classroom
Exciting developments in the field of neuroscience are leading to a new understanding of how the brain works that is beginning to transform teaching in the classroom. Neuroscience & the Classroom: Making Connections brings together leading neuroscience researchers* and educators in a dialog about how insights into brain function can be harnessed by teachers for use […]
Annenberg Learner Series: Economics U$A: 21st Century Edition
This newly updated course in macro, micro, and international economics for college and high school classrooms and adult learners includes 28 half-hour video programs, audio programs, coordinated books, and a new coordinated Web site. Explore economic history, theory, and practice, through economics case studies and interviews with Nobel Prize-winning and major economists. The series features […]
Annenberg Learner Introduces “Invitation to World Literature”
This multimedia series, “Invitation to World Literature,” offers you a passport to this rich heritage via thirteen works from a range of eras, places, cultures, languages, and traditions. Our own time and place is a world shaped by all that has come before, not just the physical world we inherit, but the world of our […]
The Annenberg Foundation Commits $50 Million toward a New Building for the USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism
The gift was announced today during the inauguration of the University of Southern California’s 11th president C. L. Max Nikias; more than 10,000 attended the event. Introducing a new era of innovation in the digital media revolution, University of Southern California President C. L. Max Nikias announced a leadership gift of $50 million from the […]