In one of the classes I teach we watch the news on a weekly basis. Our school has a contract with Channel 1 News, but I have found CNN Student News to be more popular with my high school students. It is geared to their age group, the hosts are fun to listen to, and the stories that are covered are interesting, educational, and sometimes entertaining. Also, it is a nice change since they watch Channel One in middle school. As a teacher I love CNN Student News because there are questions supplied to go along with each broadcast that are nice to have on hand for discussion or listening comprehension when I don’t have time to preview the news before class. Another great feature of CNN Student News is the old broadcasts are easy to access for students that are absent to make up participation points. After our on-campus session I was very excited to show my students the ON NEWS: The Biggest Stories of 2007 graphic.
http://awesome.goodmagazine.com/transparency/009/trans009onnews.html
This was a great conversation starter as we discussed the stories that we remembered seeing on the news. The stories that we didn’t know much about were split up among the class, researched, and presented. Now when we watch the news we keep track of the stories we hear so at the end of the year we can make a visual of our own to represent the stories of 4th quarter. Then I can use the visual my students made this year and start out the new school year showing it to my new group of students in hopes of inspiring them to get involved with world outside of their small community.
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Hey, Amy - You might be interested in this article that Carol posted back here in one of her collections of links. It's a study on the ways that teens respond to online news and what sort of things attract them done at Northwestern University by their center for Media Research & Education.
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