Teenagers and Misinformation: Some Starting Points for Teaching Media Literacy

 

Do you teach media literacy?  Next week is Media Literacy Week.  The NYT's has 5 ideas for you to consider.  To read the article click here.

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Over 150 Lesson Plans Based on New York Times Articles

 

I hope your first day back to school was not too stressful.  Here are some lesson ideas from the NYT to help you out.  Click here.

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New York Times Summer Reading Contest

 

The contest is open to all students ages 11-19 anywhere in the world.  You have until June 24.  Just look for an article in the NYT that gets your attention and then respond to what got your attention and why.  Just 250 words or fewer.  To check it out click here.  

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Can You Guess the Country? A New Geography Photo Quiz for Students

It is Friday and if you teach World Geography or History you might use this at the beginning of class.  Ten great pictures from The NYT's and you need to guess what country they were taken in.  To see the visual quiz click here.

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Lesson of the Day: ‘Why Do We Change the Clocks, Anyway?’

 

If you are teaching a Current Events or Social Studies course then it is topical to know why we change our clocks and what the government might do.  To read the article click here  hopefully after checking out my amazon.ca ads below.    If you are making any   amazon.ca purchases  please click on my links below first as I will get a small commission on anything you buy even if it is something else as long as it is within 24 hours.   Thanks.  Remember you can follow me by clicking on the blue follow button above. This post may contain affiliate links that earns me  a commission at no extra cost to you. 

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NYT - What’s Going On in This Picture? | Feb. 28, 2022

Look closely at this image, stripped of its caption, and join the moderated conversation about what you and other students see.

1. After looking closely at the image above (or at the full-size image), think about these three questions:

What is going on in this picture?

What do you see that makes you say that?

What more can you find?

2. Next, join the conversation by clicking on the comment button and posting in the box that opens on the right. (Students 13 and older are invited to comment, although teachers of younger students are welcome to post what their students have to say.)

3. After you have posted, try reading back to see what others have said, then respond to someone else by posting another comment. Use the “Reply” button or the @ symbol to address that student directly.

Each Monday, our collaborator, Visual Thinking Strategies, will facilitate a discussion from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Eastern time by paraphrasing comments and linking to responses to help students’ understanding go deeper. You might use their responses as models for your own.

4. On Thursday afternoons, we will reveal at the bottom of this post more information about the photo. How does reading the caption and learning its back story help you see the image differently?

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A Choice Board for Eight STEM Projects You Can Do With Any Newspaper

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New York Times Word of the Day

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New York Times Word of the Day

 

Yesterday I posted about the S.A.T. Word of the Day Free on Amazon but you need Alexa.  If you don't have Alex then no worries.  The NYT has you covered.  They post the word of the day.  If you are studying for the S.A.T. you might want to download a list of words such as these 500 and make flash cards using the link I have at the bottom.   To see the NYT's word of the day click  here,  hopefully after checking out my amazon.ca ads below.   If you are Canadian and making any amazon.ca purchase please click on my links below first as I will get a small commission on anything you buy even if it is something else.   Thanks.  This post may contain affiliate links that earns me  a commission at no extra cost to you.  Buy your Christmas gifts soon.

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What’s Going On in This Graph?

 

I guess it has been a bit since I posted something about my first teachable of mathematics but here is one for you if you are teaching data analysis, data management or just want to have students interpret graphs.  Not y = f(x)  graphs but data driven real data graphs.

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The NY Times June Vocabulary Challenge

 

Middle and high school students are invited to write a 50-word story drawing from the list of 19 vocabulary words published in May, which you can find below. We look forward to reading your entries. Winning submissions will be added to this article at the end of June.  All entries are due by June 15.  The words are as follows:

You can see the article in the NY Times by clicking here.

The NYT Learning Network's STEM writing challenge

From the NYT's Learning Network, "Why do hummingbirds nap? How do coronavirus vaccines work? Can two robotic spacecraft land on the moon at once? How do plant roots compete for water? Do foods like kiwis and cherries affect our sleep patterns?

If you click on any of these articles, you’ll see that they are written for a general reader. Special technical or scientific knowledge is not required, and each is designed to get our attention and keep it — by giving us “news we can use” in our own lives, or by exploring something fascinating in a way that makes it easy to understand and shows us why it matters."

If you would like to have your students enter this contest read the information on the site by clicking here.

New York Times 15 Second Vocabulary Video Challenge

 

New York Times 8th Annual 15-Second Vocabulary Video Challenge

The New York Times invites middle and high school students to create a short video that defines or teaches any of the words in our Word of the Day collection. Contest Dates: Nov. 10-Dec. 15, 2020.

The good news for Canadians is that this contest is open to the whole world.  To see information about this contest click here.

This might be a great idea to do with your English class, ELL class or even in conjunction with your Media Arts class.  Below are a couple of the top videos from 2019.

An Indigenous Way of Life Threatened by Oil Sands in Canada

This article in the NY Times was written in 2013 but I just read it recently and I thought it was worthy of reading if you are teaching Current Events or an Indigenous Peoples course. Included with the article is an 18 picture slide show.  To see the article click here.

Essay for hire

If you talk about plagiarism in your classroom, you might want to read this article about essay writing for hire.  To read the article click here.

What's Going On In This Graph?

The New York Times runs a weekly online article called "What's Going On In This Graph?".  It is a great opportunity to engage your math/science students.  This one I have chosen would be great for your math students studying finance, loans, amortization etc.  To see the article click here.  To see previous articles click here.  Below is a graph of another article they have students compare a graph of the age of first-time mothers in 1980 versus a graph in 2016 and compare.

Literature Quote Bingo tied to Current Events

This game was produced by Terri Eichholz and is on the NY Times Learning Network.  Given in Bingo format, each square has a famous quote from literature.  The students job is to list a current event or historical real-life event or person that fits the quote.  To see the pdf click here.  Thanks to Richard Byrne for having this on his website.

New York Times Country of the Week

According to the New York Times, "Our new “Country of the Week” feature celebrates this abundance to help build students’ geography skills. A weekly interactive quiz will first introduce students to a country via a recent video or photograph, then ask them to find that place on a map. Next, the quiz will focus on the demographics and culture of the country. Finally, we’ll include links to recent reporting from that place in case they, or you, would like to go further."

To see the website click here.

401 Prompts for Argumentative Writing

The Learning Network on The New York Times has updated their 200 Prompts for Argumentative Writing to 401.  You may want to have your students go to their site and follow the links on each prompt to an article that might get your students ideas to write about.   You could bring your class to the library lab to do this.   Just click here.  Alternatively you can print out a pdf list of all 400 and just the title might of one of these 400 might be enough to get them going and you will not need access to the computer lab in the library.  Click here for the pdf.

NY Times - What's Going On in This Graph

Here is a bonus post for today.  Yesterday the New York Times announced that they would publish monthly, "What's Going On in This Graph".    According to their website, "Teachers tell us these data visualizations are rich texts for classrooms across the curriculum, not just in the math or statistics class. Whether in a literature class analyzing Jane Austen’s language, a science class considering climate data, or a civics class studying gerrymandering, teaching students how to read, interpret and question graphs, maps and charts is a key 21st-century skill."  To see the website click here.