Although I thought I was done, I'm glad to blog about news literacy. In my Title I school, it is a more than difficult concept. Almost no students have a newspaper delivered to their home or watch the news. Many don't have internet at home and if they did, other things would distract them from doing it. The majority use their cell phones for music and for texting and SnapChat.
To have any form of media literacy, I must be the source and the one who convinces them there is a reason to care.
My goal in Journalism I and Newspaper is to have a topic a day. For example, in the DFW area, a number of school superintendents have turned over. Our district is one of them. Ours was due to a retirement. Dallas ISD was pretty much run out of town. Stranger too, DISD brought back as an interim one who left the district after being offered and then excepting a superintendent job in Atlanta.
I'd have the students do research on superintendents and what the job entails. I'd have them research our new person and then see what problems have happened with other superintendents. Then I'd have them decide who they would need to interview to best tell the story of our superintendent and interview the superintendent about his vision and projects.
After I get the concept that news does matter, I'll start having the students come up with a local, national and international story once a week with a minimum of three varied sources.
Judy Babb
West Mesquite HS
Mesquite, Texas
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