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  #1 empfinkenstein on 18 Mar 18

   

  *Tool Name*: New York Times Learning Network (https://www.nytimes.com/section/learning)
  *Short Description:* The New York Times has a specific website that offers teaching ideas and directly relates to current content and articles that they publish in the paper and how to utilize it in classes, encouraging students to explore, question and evaluate real news content and also compose editorials of their own, applying those skills. It offers reliable sources on topics related to social media and digital citizenship, but also offers teaching ideas to help integrate the sources into class and give teachers a jumping off point for a variety of news issues.
  *Examples of Uses:* The topic of digital citizenship, questioning media sources and examining bias comes up often, the most recent this month connected to an article on False News being easily spread by social media (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/12/learning/teaching-activities-for-its-true-false-news-spreads-faster-and-wider-and-humans-are-to-blame.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Flearning&action=click&contentCollection=learning&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=search&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=sectionfront) and concern about lax social media enforcement (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/22/learning/teaching-activities-for-on-social-media-lax-enforcement-lets-impostor-accounts-thrive.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Flearning&action=click&contentCollection=learning&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=search&contentPlacement=16&pgtype=sectionfront) allowing for false accounts that can be used for misleading people. The offered lesson plans that teachers can use includes before reading activities and comprehension questions, as well as opportunities to respond through a comment board to the paper and interact with other readers. The network also offers yearly student editorial contests (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/28/learning/student-editorial-contest.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Flearning&action=click&contentCollection=learning&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=search&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=sectionfront) and regular media interactive activities as well. It offers students a chance to communicate with a wider media audience, but has careful guidelines and necessitates citation of sources when students submit their work to the network, offering a framework for the interaction (rubric for scoring (https://static01.nyt.com/files/2018/learning/NYTLN-StudentEditorialContestRubric.pdf)) and apply them in developing better digital citizenship skills.

   

  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">*Tool Name*: New York Times Learning Network (<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/section/learning" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/section/learning</a>) <br /> *Short Description:* The New York Times has a specific website that offers teaching ideas and directly relates to current content and articles that they publish in the paper and how to utilize it in classes, encouraging students to explore, question and evaluate real news content and also compose editorials of their own, applying those skills. It offers reliable sources on topics related to social media and digital citizenship, but also offers teaching ideas to help integrate the sources into class and give teachers a jumping off point for a variety of news issues. <br /> *Examples of Uses:* The topic of digital citizenship, questioning media sources and examining bias comes up often, the most recent this month connected to an article on False News being easily spread by social media (<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/12/learning/teaching-activities-for-its-true-false-news-spreads-faster-and-wider-and-humans-are-to-blame.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Flearning&action=click&contentCollection=learning&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=search&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=sectionfront" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/12/learning/teaching-activities-for-its-true-false-news-spreads-faster-and-wider-and-humans-are-to-blame.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Flearning&action=click&contentCollection=learning&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=search&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=sectionfront</a>) and concern about lax social media enforcement (<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/22/learning/teaching-activities-for-on-social-media-lax-enforcement-lets-impostor-accounts-thrive.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Flearning&action=click&contentCollection=learning&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=search&contentPlacement=16&pgtype=sectionfront" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/22/learning/teaching-activities-for-on-social-media-lax-enforcement-lets-impostor-accounts-thrive.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Flearning&action=click&contentCollection=learning&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=search&contentPlacement=16&pgtype=sectionfront</a>) allowing for false accounts that can be used for misleading people. The offered lesson plans that teachers can use includes before reading activities and comprehension questions, as well as opportunities to respond through a comment board to the paper and interact with other readers. The network also offers yearly student editorial contests (<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/28/learning/student-editorial-contest.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Flearning&action=click&contentCollection=learning&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=search&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=sectionfront" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/28/learning/student-editorial-contest.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Flearning&action=click&contentCollection=learning&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=search&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=sectionfront</a>) and regular media interactive activities as well. It offers students a chance to communicate with a wider media audience, but has careful guidelines and necessitates citation of sources when students submit their work to the network, offering a framework for the interaction (rubric for scoring (<a href="https://static01.nyt.com/files/2018/learning/NYTLN-StudentEditorialContestRubric.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://static01.nyt.com/files/2018/learning/NYTLN-StudentEditorialContestRubric.pdf</a>)) and apply them in developing better digital citizenship skills.</div>

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