Tips
A well designed journalistic task will require your students to:
- maximize accuracy by using multiple accounts of an event;
- broaden their understanding by incorporating divergent opinions into their account;
- deepen their understanding by using background information sources;
- examine their own biases and minimize their impact on their writing.
To design such a lesson, you'll need to provide the right resources and establish the importance of fairness and accuracy in reporting.
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Examples
- In Freedom of Expression the learners research a community issue and have to write newsworty articles and feature articles to clarify the issue in the community.
- The Mexico City EarthQuake WebQuest has students reading first hand accounts of the quake and creating a simulated news program recounting it.
- The Gilded Age WebQuest guides students towards the creation of a documentary.
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