Tag: what's in the news wednesdays
Crash Course Navigating Digital Information – Episode 6: Evaluating Evidence
How do you know if something is true? Let’s just sit with that question for a little bit… I...
Read MoreCrash Course Navigating Digital Information – Episode 5: Using Wikipedia
Wikipedia, my old friend. Yes, like Twitter (now “X”… gag) isn’t a source, Wikipedia is a...
Read MoreCrash Course Navigating Digital Information – Episode 4: Who Can You Trust?
Continuing from the previous episode, we learned that when we read a website we need to not...
Read MoreCrash Course Navigating Digital Information – Episode 3: Check Yourself with Lateral Reading
When I’m working on one of these articles I usually have dozens of tabs on my browsers spread...
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Crash Course Navigating Digital Information – Episode 2: Fact Checking
I want to try something different this week. For this week’s Navigating Digital Information video,...
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Crash Course Navigating Digital Information – Episode 1
This week marks the first August in 28-years where I’m not busy scrambling to get my classroom...
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Online News & The Way Dad Did It
I think I’m over feeling guilty because I don’t consume news the way my dad did with the LA Times...
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Wednesday News Day: National Geographic Lays Off Staff Writers
This one is kind’a important to me. My timing when making life changes, like changes in careers,...
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Wednesday News Day: The Ukraine War One Year Later from the Point of View of the Children and the Medics.
Yegor’s neighborhood by Lynsey Addario-NYTimes Magazine (2023-06-26) There are times when I...
Read MoreThe Intentional Educator: A Former Teacher’s Thoughts on the Dutch Ban of Smartphones from School Classrooms
Phones are disruptive. Not a big surprise. Once telecommunications went mobile many industries...
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What’s In the News Wednesday: What Does It Mean When a Comedy “News” Show is the Most Trusted News Outlet?
A couple weeks ago I asked, “How Do You Get Your News & Have You Also Failed At The Daily...
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What’s in the News Wednesdays: How Do You Get Your News & Have You Also Failed At The Daily Newspaper Reading Game?
Every day I woke up to the LA Times on the kitchen table, on weekdays left behind after my father...
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