TV Escola (literally in English: School TV) is a Brazilian

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created by Ministry of Education of Brazil in 1995. First broadcast in 1996 in a nationwide transmission, it airs exclusively educational programs.

History

The project "TV Escola" was legally approved on June 2, 1995 as part of Strategic Planning of Ministry of Education of Brazil. It was launched by minister

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through the Secretariat for Development, Innovation and Educational Evaluation (SEDIAE) on an experimental basis on September 4, 1995 in two schools of

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. Its first nationwide broadcast occurred on March 4, 1996. On May 27, 1996, the Ministry of Education of Brazil extinguished SEDIAE and created the Secretariat for Distance Education (SEED) to assign TV Escola. Aimed to teachers, it was created to support them as an educational tool, and both to supplement their own training, and for use in their teaching practices. The oldest of two Federal programs created to support technological innovation in Brazil, TV Escola also distributes television sets,

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s, and

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es to schools. On December 15, 2003, the then-Minister of Education,

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, launched the project "TV Escola Interativa" in a partnership with Universidade Mackenzie. The project initially occurred in seven

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, and

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, distributing in three schools of each state a multimedia kit. The kit allowed to record seven days of programing in

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s, and to contact TV Escola through telephone and

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, allowing the viewer to send suggestions and participate in distance education courses.

Programming

TV Escola's programming is available through

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—which includes

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and

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, its official website, and

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for devices with iOS and Android system. It consists of twenty-four hours of educational TV series, cartoons and documentaries divided into five streams; three of them are aimed to teachers of children education, elementary education, and high school, respectively. The other two are "Salto para o Futuro" (lit. "Leap to the Future")—programs used as a support for teacher training courses and college courses—and "Escola Aberta" ("Open School"), which broadcast programs linking school and community. There is also schedules for teaching English, Spanish and French.

References

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* {{Television in Brazil Television networks in Brazil Portuguese-language television stations in Brazil Television channels and stations established in 1995 1995 establishments in Brazil