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Educational Television and its Impact in Latin America
Santo Domingo, March 6, 2009
Peter Tinoco, President of the Cisneros Foundation spoke at the IV Virtual Educa Caribe Summit about the effort to promote educational television through Canal Cl@se. Mr. Tinoco explained that the television station functions 24 hours a day and broadcasts original educational content. “Through our programs, we offer tools to improve education in Latin America.”
The channel’s programming includes special productions about language, math, art, history and science. Tinoco added that through their webpage, teachers can stay up to date on all recent technological advances and can use the study guides for different subjects and courses.
Vale TV
 “The media has a fundamental role to play in society, especially television. Although its content is not always to educate, people learn from what they see,” said María Eugenia Mosquera, Director and founder of Vale TV, channel 5 of Venezuela.
Upon this, the importance of content, the need to maintain an ethical and moral commitment is derived. “Educational television collaborates with formal education in an informal manner,” explained Ms. Mosquera.
Mosquera, professor at the Central University of Venezuela, said the Vale TV is a cultural, educational and non-profit television network that can be replicated anywhere in the world.
They work with a comprehensive philosophy of Corporate Social Responsibility which seeks social inclusion through the diffusion of didactic information.
In her opinion, television should not only be entertaining but it should also be useful for people on a day-to-day basis.
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