Today I found myself in a predicament, where a third of the class was PSAT testing, a third were wanting to follow the trapped miners story on TV and the rest were just hoping to escape work of any kind in any way. On the fly, I switched on the TV, pulled up some news websites on the projector and handed each student a daily newspaper from our Newspapers in Education program.
Each student had to anaylze the coverage of the event based on specific media outlets. We changed TV channels and online sites several times during the class period to allow for a fair representation of the event. At the end of the hour, I led a discussion on convergent media. Without it, we wouldn't be watching real time footage of this historical event. Their homework is to determine how a 20th century historical event would have been covered if the age of convergent media had happed earlier.
I'm hoping for some very interesting discussion tomorrow.
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