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Tom McHale

Improving Your 'News Diet': A Three-Step Lesson Plan for Teenagers and Teachers - The N... - 0 views

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news literacy

shared by Tom McHale on 27 Nov 17 - No Cached
  • Tom McHale on 27 Nov 17
     
    In a connected world, information comes at us constantly, whether we choose it or not, and we must each figure out a way to navigate it. Not for a school assignment, but for our real lives. So we've proposed an experiment. We're running a challenge that invites students to think deeply about their own relationships with news, and devise personal "news diets" that work for them. It runs from Nov. 2 to Dec. 22, 2017, and any teenager anywhere in the world can participate. The challenge has three steps: 1. Do a personal "news audit" to observe the role of news in their lives right now. 2. Experiment with their "news diets" in some way to find new sources that address any lacks they found. 3. Write a short essay or produce a short video that reflects on the process and what they learned. What did they discover about their news habits before and after they did the challenge - and what can they say about the role of news in their lives in general?
Tom McHale

Educational Leadership:Citizens in the Making:The Real Problem with Fake News - 0 views

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news literacy reading

shared by Tom McHale on 22 Nov 17 - No Cached
  • Tom McHale on 22 Nov 17
     
    "Educators have responded to one of the alarms raised by fake news: the relatively easy problem of how to teach students to find the fakes. We have, however, largely ignored the more important and more difficult problem caused by fake news: how to limit skepticism of the media. For every person fooled by a fake story, there may be many more whose trust in the media in general is diminished. Discounting all news means discounting true news, too. And overwhelmingly, most news is true."
Brendan McIsaac

Teacher Evaluation Systems Not Fully Supported In Many States: Center For American Prog... - 0 views

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shared by Brendan McIsaac on 29 Nov 12 - No Cached
  • Most state reform statues have established hasty timetables for the implementation of new teacher-evaluation systems — timetables all states are struggling to meet. HPAds.adSonar(1523709,2259768,300,250); adsonar_placementId=1523709;adsonar_pid=2259768;adsonar_ps=-1;adsonar_zw=300;adsonar_zh=250;adsonar_jv="ads.tw.adsonar.com";Still, arguably the biggest challenge posed by these mandated evaluation reforms is that the majority of teachers do not teach in tested subjects or grades, and as a result standardized student achievement data is not available to be used in their ratings.
  • Furthermore, states must concentrate on providing what districts cannot, and education agencies should adjust their implementation timelines to align with the needs and resources of their particular state. Lastly, states must think long term about how to provide administrators with the training, technical expertise and field experience needed to address the current human-capital challenges affiliated with teacher evaluation reform. Loading Slideshow School Supplies<strong>91 percent</strong> of teachers buy basic school supplies for their students.Food<strong>2 in 3</strong> teachers <strong>(67%)</strong> purchase food or snacks to satisfy the basic nutritional needs of their students -- even ones who are already enrolled in their schools' free or reduced-price meal program. Clothing<strong>1 in 3</strong> teachers purchase clothing for children, including jackets, hats and gloves <strong>(30%)</strong> or shoes and shoe laces <strong>(15%)</strong>.Toothbrushes<strong>18 percent</strong> of teachers purchase personal care items, such as toothbrushes and sanitary products.Hygiene ProductsNearly <strong>1 in 3</strong> teachers <strong>(29%)</strong> purchase items such as toilet paper and soap that their school cannot provide enough of due to budget cuts. Field Trips<strong>More than half</strong> of all teachers have paid the costs of field trips for students who couldn't afford to participate otherwise.Alarm Clocks<strong>Several teachers</strong> reported purchasing alarm clocks for students. Due to work schedules or family circumstances, guardians were unable to wake their children for school, which led to absences and academic underperformance. Teacher Spending On Students1 of 8 Hide ThumbnailsAlamyNext Share TweetFullscreen1 of 8Play AllSchool Supplies91 percent of teachers buy basic school supplies for their students. Like Dislike8 Points10 likes, 2 dislikesAdvertisement× #hp-slideshow-wrapper-246322 .hp-slideshow-wrapper-loading-div{ font-family:Arial
  • Brendan McIsaac on 29 Nov 12
     
    This is the struggle I was outlining the other day
Tom McHale

Do You Know Which News Media to Trust? The American Press Institute Teams up With Newse... - 0 views

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shared by Tom McHale on 25 Oct 16 - No Cached
  • Tom McHale on 25 Oct 16
     
    "At the American Press Institute (API), we put energy into helping news readers of any age understand and evaluate the news they encounter. In our work with youth and media, we generally recommend six basic questions that can be asked about the news you encounter: 1. Type: What kind of content is this - news, opinion, advertising or something else? 2. Source: Who and what are the sources cited, and why should I believe them? 3. Evidence: What's the evidence and how was it vetted? 4. Interpretation: Is the main point of the piece backed up by the evidence? 5. Completeness: What's missing? 6. Knowledge: Is there an issue here that I want to learn more about, and where can I do that? We are excited to partner with Newsela to offer a way for teachers to begin some of these thoughtful media literacy discussions with their students. Newsela has created an election Text Set that focuses squarely on media literacy. Every article in the set uses some of API's six questions as Annotations to encourage critical thinking - and teachers can use some, or all, of the six questions to guide classroom discussion."
Tom McHale

Lesson plan: How to teach your students about fake news | Lesson Plan | PBS NewsHour Extra - 0 views

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  • Tom McHale on 23 Dec 16
     
    "Fake news is making news, and it's a problem. Not only did a BuzzFeed data analysis find that viral stories falsely claiming that the Pope endorsed Donald Trump and that Hillary Clinton sold weapons to terrorists receive more Facebook attention than the most popular news stories from established news outlets, but a false story about child trafficking in a Washington, D.C. pizza restaurant inspired a North Carolina man to drive 5 hours with a shotgun and other weapons to investigate. This lesson gives students media literacy skills they need to navigate the media, including how to spot fake news."
Tom McHale

New Jersey Becomes Second State to Require PARCC Passage for Graduation - High School &... - 0 views

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assessment

shared by Tom McHale on 05 Aug 16 - No Cached
  • Tom McHale on 05 Aug 16
     
    "New Jersey has become the second state to require students to pass the PARCC exam in order to graduate from high school. The New Jersey Board of Education voted Wednesday to begin the requirement with the class of 2021. Currently, New Jersey students must pass a test to graduate, but they can choose which one: PARCC, ACT Aspire, the ACT, PSAT or SAT; Accuplacer, or the ASVAB-AFQT (military entrance exam). They can also opt to demonstrate mastery of subject matter through a portfolio presentation. The board's vote means that as of 2021, only two graduation options will be available to New Jersey students: First they must try to score "proficient" on the PARCC exams in 10th grade English/language arts and Algebra I. If they can't, they may submit a portfolio appeal. "
Tom McHale

Growing up in rural Trump country made me weird - and I'm so glad | My hometown - 0 views

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writing about place

shared by Tom McHale on 25 Nov 18 - Cached
  • Tom McHale on 25 Nov 18
     
    "When you tell somebody you grew up in New Jersey, people assume certain things - namely, that your father was the model for Tony Soprano, or that you have a heavy accent that sounds kind of like Brooklyn by way of a kazoo on steroids, or that your home was wedged on the corner of Chemical Factory Lane and Smokestack Way. And there is some truth to this narrow vision of New Jersey. But my New Jersey was Hunterdon County, a beautiful swath of land directly across the river from Bucks County. I ran around fields and forests when I wasn't playing softball on neatly manicured diamonds in pristine parks, or reading books from the well-funded local library. And because I grew up in one of the only remaining agricultural strongholds in New Jersey, where the game butcher wasn't too far from the dirt racetrack, I grew up in a slice of what some pundits call "Real America," which is to say: white, Republican, and far fonder of guns than gays."
Tom McHale

Re-Energize Your Classroom in the New Year | Edutopia - 0 views

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shared by Tom McHale on 08 Jan 16 - No Cached
  • Tom McHale on 08 Jan 16
     
    "The New Year is a wonderful time to start trying some new things. You've spent a good amount of time with your students and feel more comfortable exploring new strategies and practices that are more tailored to their learning needs. I want to share some great ideas that you can use to change things up for the second part of the year -- and that can also help beat the winter blues."
Tom McHale

One year on, we're still not recognizing the complexity of information disorder online - 0 views

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news literacy propaganda

shared by Tom McHale on 24 Nov 17 - No Cached
  • Tom McHale on 24 Nov 17
     
    "The debate about mis- and dis-information has intensified, but, as our report argues, we're still failing to appreciate the complexity of the phenomenon at hand. The report refrains from using the term 'fake news' and urges journalists, academics and policy-makers to do the same. This is for two reasons. First, the term is woefully inadequate to describe the complexities of information disorder. Second, it has been appropriated by politicians worldwide to describe news organizations whose coverage they find disagreeable, and, in this way, has become a mechanism by which the powerful clamp down upon, restrict, undermine and circumvent the free press. Our new definitional framework introduces three types, elements and phases of information disorder. We describe the differences between the three types of information using dimensions of harm and falseness: Mis-information is when false information is shared, but no harm is meant. Dis-information is when false information is knowingly shared to cause harm. Mal-information is when genuine information is shared to cause harm, often by moving private information into the public sphere."
Tom McHale

Under New Standards, Students See Sharp Decline in Test Scores - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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shared by Tom McHale on 08 Aug 13 - No Cached
  • Tom McHale on 08 Aug 13
     
    "In New York City, 26 percent of students in third through eighth grade passed the state exams in English, and 30 percent passed in math, according to the New York State Education Department. The exams were some of the first in the nation to be aligned with a more rigorous set of standards known as Common Core, which emphasize deep analysis and creative problem-solving. Last year, under an easier test, 47 percent of city students passed in English, and 60 percent in math."
Ms Vaks

Washington Post suspends columnist for Twitter hoax | The Upshot Yahoo! News - Yahoo! News - 1 views

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sources credibility writing publishing research post twitter social-media news

shared by Ms Vaks on 01 Sep 10 - Cached
  • publishing fabricated information on Twitter
  • prove a point about how reporters will run stories in today's fast-moving news environment without  independently verifying the information.
  • ther news outlets went with the apparent scoop
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  • guidelines on correctly using social media.
  • why Twitter users (including other journalists) assume respected journalists are publishing accurate information on the medium
  • nobody checking facts or sourcing
  • credibility
  • Ms Vaks on 01 Sep 10
     
    Credibility of info posted on social media. Role of reposrteers: fact checking sources.
Tom McHale

What Did You Think of Our Text-to-Text Lessons? - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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shared by Tom McHale on 30 May 14 - No Cached
  • Tom McHale on 30 May 14
     
    "Last September we introduced a new lesson-plan format called Text to Text, in which we pair two texts that we think "speak" to each other in interesting ways, then pose questions and suggest a few activities for students to bring the writings together. One of the excerpts we use is always from The New York Times - sometimes pulled from that week's headlines, and other times from the archives. The other excerpt generally comes from an often-taught literary, historical, cultural, scientific or mathematical text. Our goal: to help students see a classic work through a new lens, or to think about how and why a text still matters."
Tom McHale

Types of Media Bias and How to Spot It | AllSides - 0 views

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bias informationliteracy medialiteracy newsliteracy

shared by Tom McHale on 10 Sep 19 - No Cached
  • Tom McHale on 10 Sep 19
     
    "Journalism is tied to a set of ethical standards and values, including truth and accuracy, fairness and impartiality, and accountability. However, journalism today often strays from objective fact; the result is biased news. Bias isn't necessarily a bad thing, but hidden media bias misleads, manipulates and divides us. This is why AllSides provides hundreds of media bias ratings and a media bias chart. Seventy-two percent of Americans believe traditional news sources report fake news, falsehoods, or content that is purposely misleading. With trust in media declining, media consumers must learn how to spot types of media bias. This page outlines 11 types of media bias, along with examples of their use in popular media outlets."
Tom McHale

Media Literacy: Five Ways Teachers Are Fighting Fake News | MindShift | KQED News - 0 views

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shared by Tom McHale on 17 Feb 17 - No Cached
  • Tom McHale on 17 Feb 17
     
    "Teachers are taking up the challenge to change that. NPR Ed put out a social media call asking how educators are teaching fake news and media literacy, and we got a lot of responses. Here's a sampling from around the country:"
Tom McHale

Our Third Annual Student Editorial Contest: Write About an Issue That Matters to You - ... - 0 views

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writing contest argument

shared by Tom McHale on 26 Feb 16 - No Cached
  • Tom McHale on 26 Feb 16
     
    The challenge is pretty straightforward. Choose a topic you care about, gather evidence from both New York Times and non-New York Times sources, and write a concise editorial (450 words or fewer) to convince readers of your point of view. Because editorial writing at newspapers is a collaborative process, you can write your entry as a team effort, or by yourself. When you're done, post it in the contest form below by March 29, 2016, at 11:59 p.m. Eastern."
Tom McHale

Speaking Skills Top Employer Wish Lists. But Schools Don't Teach Them - Education Week - 0 views

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speakinglistening

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  • Tom McHale on 26 Sep 18
     
    "Employers say they have trouble finding new hires with good oral-communication skills. But relatively few regular public K-12 schools explicitly teach those skills, and even fewer teach them with real-world workplace scenarios. That mismatch doesn't bode well for young people's job prospects, or for companies searching for new talent. In survey after survey, employers say they need people who are good communicators. And they say that strong speaking skills are even more important than good reading or writing skills."
Tom McHale

New Jersey lawmakers want schools to stop teaching 'Huckleberry Finn' - 0 views

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reading

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  • Tom McHale on 22 Mar 19
     
    "Two African-American members of the state Assembly have introduced a non-binding resolution calling on school districts in New Jersey to remove "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" - widely acclaimed as one of America's greatest literary works - from their curricula."
Tom McHale

Listen Up: These Young Black Poets Have a Message - The New York Times - 1 views

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poetry teens

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  • Tom McHale on 11 Oct 20
     
    "The 10 young Black writers in this project - talented poets from Oakland, Houston, St. Louis, Chicago, New York, Nashville, New Orleans and Los Angeles - are using the tools at their disposal, whatever they have. There's the "Black vernacular" of Akilah Toney's poem, the unshakable end rhymes of Alora Young, the expansive lines of Nyarae Francis's sestina and the stunning yet harrowing fragments of Samuel Getachew's "justice for -." These fledgling June Jordans and Robert Haydens, who are youth poets laureate and organizers and rappers, examine and fight back against an America that threatens to swallow them. They redefine themselves ("I wish I understood what it is like to be a black girl / To know myself like a dictionary definition," begins Madison Petaway in her poem) and cite their own wisdom and traditions, even building their own gods ("I've come to learn that my Grandmother's God is not my own," Jacoby Collins writes)."
Tom McHale

Common Core Practice | - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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writing

shared by Tom McHale on 30 Nov 12 - No Cached
  • Tom McHale on 30 Nov 12
     
    "Each Friday we collaborate with a classroom in New Jersey to test and publish three short writing ideas that address Common Core Standards and that are grounded in New York Times content. This week, all three prompts focus on the common theme of life on a coastline - a topic of great importance to our classroom collaborators, who recently went through weeks of disruption because of Hurricane Sandy."
Tom McHale

About Op-Docs - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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shared by Tom McHale on 27 Mar 13 - No Cached
  • Tom McHale on 27 Mar 13
     
    Op-Docs is The New York Times editorial department's forum for short, opinionated documentaries, produced with wide creative latitude and a range of artistic styles, covering current affairs, contemporary life and historical subjects.   Op-Docs videos are produced by both renowned and emerging filmmakers who express their views in the first person, through their subjects or more subtly through an artistic approach to a topic. Each is accompanied by a director's statement. In December 2012, we started a new Op-Docs feature: Scenes. This is a platform for very short work - snippets of street life, brief observations and interviews, clips from experimental and artistic nonfiction videos - that follow less traditional documentary narrative conventions.
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