They’re not meant to replace the teacher, but they do offer the teacher important and effective tools for transmitting to their students the authentic teachings of the Church.įFG: Your first video is on the Eucharist, with forthcoming videos on Confession and Matrimony. We have published entire teacher’s guides on the sacraments, and the videos we are producing through SketchPad augment those materials. We want to take the most effective mediums being employed in the secular world and use them to help folks better understand - and faithfully live out - our Catholic faith. They’re expensive, complicated and very time consuming. We know that in secular markets, styles such as those we employed in SketchPad are very effective.

He has served in the past as vice president for institutional advancement at Thomas More College of Liberal Arts, as well as in leadership positions at the Intercollegiate Studies Institute and Bill of Rights Institute in Washington, D.C.įathers for Good reached McKinney via email about this new teaching tool.įathers for Good: How does SketchPad fit into the Sophia Institute for Teachers initiative?Ĭharlie McKinney: Teachers are always looking for innovative ways to engage their students. The desire to deliver engaging forms of education is familiar to Charlie McKinney, president of Sophia Institute Press. Targeted toward primary and secondary school audiences, Sophia SketchPad encourages its users to “draw” lessons from online videos about the sacraments, beginning with the Eucharist, with plans for spots on Confession and Matrimony. Thanks to Sophia Institute Press, such virtual learning opportunities now include information about essential realities of Catholicism. What is learned can now be downloaded, interacted with, even shared with others online by anyone, at any time, from any place with the click of an icon or mouse. A Wi-Fi signal or a smartphone is all it takes today to access lessons once confined to pages of textbooks.

Classroom education no longer takes place just within physical walls.

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