A great current event resource for both teachers and students is the “student news” portion of the cnn website (www.cnn.com/studentnews/). There students can look through the headlines of the day, with a simplified version of the daily topics specifically designed for high school students to read. The website has daily podcasts, videos, headlines, discussions, and news quizzes for students to peruse. Also, the “daily student news” specifically refers to a ten-minute commercial free news clip specifically designed for students to by editors at CNN. This would be a great way to open class every day, or to show once in a while to pique student interest.
I find this website useful because CNN is one of the most recognizable networks in the world. Students can simultaneously get great newsfeed and learn how to navigate different headlines. Perhaps the best part about this webpage is that students can follow links to other websites as well, giving them multiple perspectives on a number of topics.
For teachers, there is also a “wealth” of teaching materials available for free, included transcripts of each show, discussion questions, learning activities, downloadable maps, and other support materials to reinforce the videos and headlines. The website even includes suggested learning strategies to go about teaching with these materials. The only downfall of this site is that it would be blatantly supporting CNN, which to some may seem like a bad thing. Perhaps a way around this would be to use a different website at times, and alternate between the two in order to have a well-rounded current events resource.
www.cnn.com/studentnews/
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