The Learning Network -
Teaching and Learning with The New York Times
I found The Learning Network to be a great resource for teachers and librarians who are interested in teaching using current articles from a newspaper. This website provides a large array of lessons for students. I think that the way students access news is different today with social media being their first means of communication and keeping current with the events of the world by reading news articles can be very beneficial to students in a multitude of ways. Teaching students how to read an article and summarize it, write their opinions about what they have read, and learn how to extract the main points of an article are just some of the things that students should be taught and they can learn these things from reading The New York Times through The Learning Network. Contained in the lesson plans on this website there are writing prompts, current news quizzes, lesson plans in a variety of subject areas and contests for students to enter their writing in. Current events are used to improve writing and content knowledge in a lot of the core classes such as English and Science. Students will be able to find articles to satisfy a lot of core skills on this website. Below are some of the options of activities for students and lesson plans subjects that the website offers:
I think that this website would be a great resource to show teachers at a faculty meeting and urge them to explore. They can sign up for a free trial provided by the website. If there is enough interest, I would consider having the library subscribe to the site so that the teachers could have access to the website during the school year. This website would be a great collaboration tool for the teachers and librarians to use together and bring students into the library for lessons.
I explored the website and found so much information that it was hard to select one example to show but I decided to look at a current event, From the homepage, I selected “Latest” from the top tab so I could see the most recent articles.
I explored the website and found so much information that it was hard to select one example to show but I decided to look at a current event, From the homepage, I selected “Latest” from the top tab so I could see the most recent articles.
That took me to a list of articles for the week and I selected that article about the fire at Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris.
The Learning Network seems like an awesome, educational resource. It seems a lot like Newsela to me, which is another great resource for teaching with current events at levels that match our students. I am always eager to try applications like these that come with ready-to-go lesson plans and engaging activities.
ReplyDeleteThe Learning Network seems like a great resource! I love that there are more options for our students to interact with current events. In addition, this seems like a perfect way for us to teach media literacy. Great review!
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