I was never that big into reading the news in high school
but i really got into it in college. Online news is a great way for
students to keep updated about current events and learn some of the important
occurrence going on in today's society. One of the standards for social
studies regards active citizenship. Active citizenship involves students
being updated on current events and approaching the topics in class. One
idea I had would be having one day of the week be devoted to current events in
relation to the past. We could have a weekly current event project that
involves students looking up a current topic and discussing it in class and
hand in a one page write about it. Current events force students to be
aware of what’s going on in society. They will have to form an opinion
about the event and interpret its consequences. This also reinforces a
teacher i once shadowed idea that "History is all around us. We just
need to open our eyes". I believe
that using online news in and reinforcing it outside the classroom will inspire
students to be updated about the situation in the world. There have been a lot of radical changes in
the world these past few years. If we don’t
open our eyes and learn about them, we may never know.
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