Where will The Futures Channel take you?

Here's just a glimpse from our current program schedule and some fascinating clips from our Archives.

The Futures Channel was founded in 1999 with the goal of using new media technologies to create a channel between the scientists, engineers, explorers and visionaries who are shaping the future, and today’s learners who will one day succeed them.

The Mission of The Futures Channel:

To produce and distribute high quality multimedia content which educators in any setting can use to enliven curriculum, engage students and otherwise enhance the learning experience.

To connect mathematics, science, technology and engineering to the real world of careers and achievement, so that students can envision a context and purpose for what they are learning allowing them to envision their own successful futures. 

To provide a channel through which professionals from the sciences, engineering and technology sectors can reach their future workforce prospects and interest them in their fields.

Download a PDF of our 2008 Brochure

 

What Educators Are Saying About The Futures Channel

“Thank you. What a great promo for learning math. I will share this link with many teachers and their students! The Futures Channel does wonderful videos to engage students!”
Marsha Shrago
Program Director
Center for Education Integrating Science, Mathematics, and Computing
Georgia Institute of Technology

“Amazing website. This really gives students an opportunity to see real life jobs and activities that apply to lessons they are learning. The NASA videos always give students a representation of a wonderful role model and career.”
Melissa Herrera
Pasadena ISD,
Pasadena, Texas

“The Futures Channel’s content is unparalleled when it comes to connecting classroom concepts to the real world of careers and achievement. It brings the curriculum to life, it’s tied to standard and it engages student. We’ve tested it in our training programs and the response from teachers and students is very enthusiastic.”
Anna Mellado
Executive Director, Viva Technology Program
Hispanic Engineers Achievement Awards
Corp.

“The Futures Channel team pioneered the creation and delivery of short, broadcast-quality video clips and ‘microdocumentaries’ which teachers can use to bring context and life to their lessons and engage their students. This is a new direction for educational media, one that fits that way that teachers actually teach.”
Dr. Eric Robinson
Professor of Mathematics
Ithaca College, NY

“More and more, my students beg to see what Futures Channel has for the week. It’s not only a part of my lesson, but it’s a treat for the class. I use it as a reward. Thank you for bringing such exciting, informative and captivating programs right into our classroom.”
Angela Barriga
Hungerford Elementary
Maitland, FL

“The videos are outstanding and are wonderfully produced.”
Brinkley B. Pound
Lead teacher and science department head
St. Luke School
Columbus, GA

“I’d recommend this material to anyone who wants to motivate youth to stick with math and science as a way to keep their options open for the future.”
Margo Nanny
Co-Chair,
Expanding Your Horizons in
Math and Science Conference

“There are over 3 million teachers in America who face the challenge of relating what they are teaching to the real world. They are expected to be able to effectively answer the questions: ‘When will I ever use this?’ The Futures Channel is going to help them answer that question.”
Dr. Milton Chen,
Executive Director,
The George Lucas Educational Foundation

“I used the ‘How Tall?’ activity with my students as an extension of finding equivalent fraction. We found the heights of the students in the room using the proportions and then confirmed with measuring. We continued by going outside and using the formula on objects we could not measure like the flagpole. The students enjoyed it and got to see how some of the concepts they encounter in school apply in life. That is perhaps what I like most about your site, it answers the age-old question, ‘When am I ever going to use this?’ in a real way.”
Thank you again,
Joan Boss
Joseph Covington Elementary School
Oak Lawn, IL