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"For those many kids who choose not to read books, for those kids who are news junkies, for those kids who choose to focus on nonfiction, for those kids who read everything anyway, and for those kids who are motivated by regular, tangible rewards, Newsela’s Free Summer Reading Challenge may be just the thing to engage students with the world, while attacking potential summer reading slump."
Beth Dichter's insight:
If you haven't had a chance to check out the website Newsela this may be a great opportunity to take a look at it and share it with students (if you have an easy way to access them). Newsela provides news at five reading lexiles, from Grade 3 or 4 through Grade 12. When you log in there will be a choice of articles to choose from. After reading you may choose to take a quiz. Although this challenge has started you may still sign up. The post provides additional details and links to the website. 
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"Ever since the Media Education Lab moved from Temple University to the University of Rhode Island, I was looking for a chance to update the classic media literacy remote control...[which] presents a metaphor for the active and structured approach to the analysis of media and popular culture." The remote control has been re-designed to " a smartphone look while keeping the key questions and core concepts the same.
Beth Dichter's insight:
The "buttons" are the "features" and include: * Reality Check * Private Gain or Public Gain * What's Left Out * Read Between the Lines * Stereotype Alert * Solutions Too Easy * Record/Save for Later If you look at the"the bottom part of the MEL App [you will]... see the different media genres content that can be analyzed." The post notes that you may use this to explore newspapers, TV messages, comics, tablets, radio, books, movies, video games and more. Think of it as a tool to promote media literacy and a guide to structured critical analysis. This is not a real app that you download, but a tool that is very reasonably priced. "One side of the smartphone displays the various "apps" for analyzing a media text and the other side displays the "five critical questions" of media literacy developed by Renee Hobbs."
Irvin Sierra's curator insight,
November 6, 2014 11:14 PM
This article is in relation to what we are talking about in class because it has to do with popular culture. This new invention that they had made was based on already a device that was use for media literacy. But with all the new technology advancing and growing they decided to make it look more attracting to society by making it look like a smartphone. By making it look like a smartphone more people would be attracted to it since everyone around the world now have smartphone devices. This is not only across the US but across the world . Its spreading so it much likely consider popular culture because everyone would want to have the new thing coming out.
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A site where various resources are shared in order to help facilitate the use of technology in the classroom.
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hakia.com is a Web search engine that is focused on bringing quality results in all segments including Web, News, Blogs, hakia Galleries, Credible Sources, Video, and Images.
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"The shutdown of the United States government began today. With no plan of action from either political party, there is consequently no easy lesson for teachers to share with their students."
Beth Dichter's insight:
Are your students asking questions about the shutdown of the US government? Are you looking for some excellent resources to help them understand what is going on? ASIDE has put together a number of resources to help you out. Check out this article where you will find * A short video from the BBC titled U.S. Government Shutdown in 60 Seconds * An interactive tool "US Government Shutdown" visualization (you may use your mouse and roll over different departments to learn the impact of the shutdown * An infographic "Who Goes to Work? Who Stays Home" from the NY Times * An infographic that asks "How Would a Government Shutdown Affect Your Life?" * A slide show from USA Today that catalogs the "Government Shutdown by the Numbers" and quite a few more. Many students are interested in this and this article notes that their questions were mostly on "blame and healthcare." You may find different questions in your classroom with this robust list of resources.
Nat Sones's curator insight,
October 2, 2013 8:13 AM
Shutdown is the ultimate failure of government. This seems not to have passed unnoticed exactly, but being missed as it gets covered in all sorts of other statements, facts, data and reactions. By shutting down, by neglecting their duty (not to mention wasting vast, unbelievable amounts of resource doing so), the US government has betrayed its people, and allowed political brinkmanship and the primitive desire to 'win the argument' to undermine the whole point of it.
If, that is, you believe that the point of government is to protect people, nurture civilisation and direct growth. If you believe that the point of government and the purpose behind politics is to further the careers and feed the egos of politicians, however, it's fine!
This material shows in crystal clarity how the shutdown is affecting US society and people. A good clear way of seeing the shocking neglect of duty that this represents - by all sides. Reaching consensus is the duty of politicians; not fighting to the death. Because the politicians never have to actually pay any price - others do that for them.
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"Recent research confirms that we are living in the digital information age. Nearly half of all Americans get some form of local news on a mobile device, and 46% of people get their news online at least three times a week. What's more, online news sources officially surpassed print newspapers in ad revenue in 2010... Are more people turning to social media for breaking news? And can we trust the news that social media delivers to be accurate and factual? Check out this infographic to learn more about the changing face of news delivery and how social media may end up leading the charge."
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Tweeting world history; the value of short-form writing; teenager, 1-governor, 0; and how Knight and Mozilla are reframing jounalism for the digital age.
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Excellent source of informational articles relevant to the world and students in upper elementary grades.