New Education Destination for Kids K-12 with Free Resources

With students in Washington not returning to their classrooms for the rest of the school year, it can feel overwhelming for Bellevue families with kids. To help address this unique challenge, Common Sense Media – a non-profit organization that provides education and advocacy to families to promote safe technology and media for children – has partnered with one of our state’s largest cable TV providers to curate a list of educational recommendations to help kids learn and keep them engaged during their time indoors.

Nearly 2,000 hours of programming and thousands of free titles are now available to Xfinity video customers to give children and parents quick and easy access to educational programming by grade level as part of the company’s comprehensive response to the COVID-19 crisis. The collection is a joint effort between Common Sense Media and Comcast with content integrated into Xfinity on Demand.

Xfinity customers with X1 or Flex can say “Education” or, if their voice search language is set to Spanish, “Educación,” into the Xfinity Voice Remote to access content available to them by grades “K-2,” “3-5,” “6-8,” and “9-12” and also “for all ages” currently including:

• Free programs from subscription video on demand services (SVODS) Bluprint, CuriosityStream, The Great Courses Signature Collection, Grokker Yoga Fitness, HISTORY® Vault, Kids Room and The Reading Corner.
• Additional free adult continuing education programming from these SVODS focused on the “Mind,” “Body,” and “Soul” spanning biographies; podcasts on a range of topics including technology and business; yoga; dance; food and cooking; fitness; wellness; ballets and operas; and gardening.
• Educational series from networks and streaming services including Animal Planet, HBO, HISTORY®, Nick Jr., PBS KIDS, Prime Video, Smithsonian Channel and more.
• Spanish language programming available from networks including CBeebies, Discovery Familia and Kids Central.
• Firsthand interviews and historical narratives from Voices of the Civil Rights Movement, Comcast’s signature commemorative programming initiative honoring the impact and legacy of the movement.

Additionally, Comcast has enlisted the guidance of Natascha Crandall, Ph.D., a psychologist and educator to program the content across English Language Arts, Math, Science, and Social Studies based on grade appropriate guidelines aligned with the current U.S. school curriculum.

To learn more about these free resources, visit: https://corporate.comcast.com/press/releases/comcast-education-destination-for-covid-19-pandemic