Livuamp
Liveuamap is a news site that covers news in regions of the world geographically, and to the minute.
It also has a mobile app
It also has a mobile app
THE CHOICES PROGRAM
Brown University's Choice Program offers curricula on current and historical international and public policy issues. One part of their curriculum lesson teaching with the news. Some of the issues include:
- Famine today
- Debating the US response to Syria
- President Trumps Executive Order on Immigration
FACING HISTORY
Facing History has some great topics that can work with Current Events. And some are similar to what the Choices Program offers but the lesson are different.
Some of the topics include:
- Democracy and civic engagement
- Justice and human rights
- race in history
- Genocide and mass violence
CNN STUDENT NEWS
CNN Student News does a 10 minute daily broadcast during the school. And each week they develop a news quiz that you can print and give to students. Its an excellent and engaging ten minute program hosted by Carl Azuz. It wills tart the 1017-18 school year on August 14.
LISTENWISE
Listenwise is a platform that organizes non-fiction, public radio stories for educators and students. Teachers can access resources on the Listenwise site, such as listening comprehension questions and audio stories, for free.
HBO VICE
HBO Vice also develops news segments often ideal for the classroom.The segments are a little longer, usually running about fifteen minutes. Some recent episodes have included the politics of terror and the end of the EU, Plastic oceans, and the cost of climate change.
NEWSEUMED
Newseumed, the education division of the Newseum has some excellent tools on media literacy and the first amendment.
I took students to a fake news lesson this past spring which was excellent.
One lesson helps students to read headlines and recognize media influence.
I took students to a fake news lesson this past spring which was excellent.
One lesson helps students to read headlines and recognize media influence.
C-SPAN CLASSROOM
OTHER RESOURCES
Newsela (Leveled current events)
Listenwise (NPR current events podcasts)
TweenTribune (Leveled current events)
Newsmap (Headlines from around the world)
Newspaper Map (Newspapers from around the world)
Listenwise (NPR current events podcasts)
TweenTribune (Leveled current events)
Newsmap (Headlines from around the world)
Newspaper Map (Newspapers from around the world)
FACT TIOUS
Here's a website that helps you decide which sources are good or "fake news" online. It's done in a quiz or game format and it only takes about 10 minutes.
Adam Ruins Everything
"Comic Adam Conover, a cast member and writer at the popular comedy website CollegeHumor, brings his original online series to TV, expanding upon his efforts to poke fun at everyday things that people accept or assume without question. In the half-hour investigative comedy, Conover uses a not-quite-deadly combination of comedy, history and science to debunk widespread misconceptions about topics and ideas that are routinely taken for granted."
PBS: NEWS WAR
"News War, a four-part FRONTLINE investigation, examines the political, cultural, legal, and economic forces challenging the news media today and how the press has reacted in turn. This lesson plan is based on the second film of the series. In Secrets, Sources & Spin, Part II, FRONTLINE explores today's high-profile debates over the role of the press, including clashes between journalists and the government over whether or not a reporter has the right to keep a source confidential. The program includes interviews with San Francisco Chronicle reporters Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams, who made national headlines exposing steroid abuse in professional baseball by drawing from the athletes' own grand jury testimony, which had been leaked to the Chronicle. The program also features independent journalist and blogger Josh Wolf, who was jailed for refusing to turn over a videotape of a San Francisco protest to the FBI." (Quoted from PBS Frontline.
You can stream the video here.
And you can get lesson ideas for the video here.
You can stream the video here.
And you can get lesson ideas for the video here.
MEDIAL LITERACY AND THE MIDDLE EAST
The University of Chicago has a great website about media literacy and the Middle East. They note that" news coverage of the Middle East region in particular provides a wealth of media material and a useful context for applying, synthesizing, and evaluating media literacy skills.
The website includes a number of documents that provide teachers with information about media literacy education and suggestions for integrating media literacy exercises and activities into existing curricula in order to cultivate a range of media literacy competences among their students.
Documentary '13TH'
"The title of Ava DuVernay’s extraordinary and galvanizing documentary 13TH refers to the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, which reads “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States.” The progression from that second qualifying clause to the horrors of mass criminalization and the sprawling American prison industry is laid out by DuVernay with bracing lucidity. With a potent mixture of archival footage and testimony from a dazzling array of activists, politicians, historians, and formerly incarcerated women and men, DuVernay creates a work of grand historical synthesis. Now Streaming on Netflix."
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