I didn't realise/know that this documentary series (which I was a consultant for this Garden Route episode, that features my research) was aired on SABC3/S3 (in South Africa) earlier this year!! I'm so glad it was able to reach a larger audience with primetime public broadcasting!
Brief shot of one of my plover loves at 0:02-0:03 in the promo above…& the whole episode (← this source not location restricted, but use AYOR) is worth watching, but if you're interested, the segment on the birds & my research (including a rare appearance by a very blonde fieldwork version of yours truly!) starts at 30:43.
You can also find it through various streaming services; currently on:
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Now seems like a good time to revisit his moving speech to the U.S. Senate.
On May 1, 1969, Fred Rogers stepped before the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Communication and explained what exactly his job entailed.
Rogers, the man behind the PBS show “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood,” had gone to Washington, D.C., to defend public television from budget cuts. President Richard Nixon had proposed slashing funding for programming such as Rogers’ in half as the war in Vietnam raged on.
Sitting in front of Sen. John O. Pastore, the chairman of the subcommittee, Rogers didn’t get bogged down in budgetary minutia. Instead, he talked about what he hoped to accomplish with his show. He used it, he said, to help children learn to deal with their problems in a healthy manner ― to instill a sense of confidence in the kids he worked with and who watched him. He used simple sentences and simple words to get his point across:
This is what I give. I give an expression of care every day to each child, to help him realize that he is unique. I end the program by saying, “You’ve made this day a special day, by just your being you. There’s no person in the whole world like you, and I like you, just the way you are.” And I feel that if we in public television can only make it clear that feelings are mentionable and manageable, we will have done a great service for mental health. I think that it’s much more dramatic that two men could be working out their feelings of anger ― much more dramatic than showing something of gunfire.
Video - May 1, 1969: Fred Rogers testifies before the Senate Subcommittee on Communications :
...Rogers died in 2003, but public media has continued to provide educational programming that remains trustworthy and popular. NPR ratings reached an all-time high last fall. A bipartisan polling team found earlier this year that 73 percent of all Americans ― including more than 60 percent of Republicans ― opposed eliminating federal funding for public television.
Nevertheless, on Thursday, President Donald Trump went even further than Nixon did in 1969. The president’s budget plan proposed pulling all federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which supports NPR and PBS. The CPB receives about $485 million annually from the U.S. government, much less than $54 billion Trump hopes to add to the defense budget.
Did anyone else watch this as a kid? I was obsessed with it. I loved dinosaurs and I think I wanted to turn into a dinosaur like the host. lol
Tbh though, until I watched it again last night I was never 100% certain if it was real or just a really vivid fever dream I had as a kid. It’s super weird, but awesome.
The first iPhone was released a little over twelve years ago. This means that students who entered college this year were about six years old when the iPhone came out, and although I certainly have memories of my life from before I turned six, I don’t have that many. If we aren’t yet at a point where new college students can’t remember a world without smartphones, we will be in the next couple of years, and it’s important for teachers to think about these things as they figure out the best approaches to use with their students. When I talk about the earliest years I remember, back before my family had cable television or a microwave oven (let alone a PC or the Internet), some of my students act like I’m talking about the dark ages, and that can be more than a little humbling ...
GISH HQ Topic of the Day: Is propaganda really just "educational programming" with an opinion bias? Discuss. gish.com #GISH
Item 197: (Up to 15 seconds) GISH IS GREAT! It’s shiny! It’s NEW! It’s… really freaking hard to market, so we’re outsourcing it to you. Make a 1950s-style, 15 second commercial for gish with a snappy jingle that gets stuck in your head & gets everyone you know to sign up in 2019.
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“MathDali” replaces “G Diaries” AS K-12’s inception and implementation are complete in the recently opened school year, an educational program is going to the main channel.
We’re about to have a staff meeting to create a slate of new adult programs for 2017. Last year, our owl walks and edible wild plants walk were very successful. Should we repeat those? Create new programs? What would you like to see us offer?
The ABC’s of beekeeping with our expert beekeeper, John?
A presentation on the hows and whys of hunting with falcons?
