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News Analysis: Critical Analysis of the Most Important News of the Day

Kirsten Bowman JD

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Average rating:4.9Number of reviews:(727)

This ongoing course will allow learners to critically analyze news stories of the day. Keep up with current events while you practice critical thinking skills in order to become informed consumers of current day issues.

Class experience

US Grade 8 - 11

News literacy is a subset of media literacy focused on helping people process and understand news media messages, to locate more factual and credible information, and to think critically about what counts as news. News literacy is also about recognizing that quality, credible, independent news and journalism are critical components of any free and democratic society. 

Each week learners will come to class to read and analyze 2 current events of the day.  We will analyze the source to...

This ongoing course hopes to help learners feel confident in their ability to consume news with greater literacy, to identify mis-information and bias, to identify the difference between opinion and fact-based reporting and to critically analyze fact-based information to help inform their own personal opinions about society and the current events of the day.

As a lawyer and public policy advocate I have been trained to critically analyze information for bias, perspective and facts.  I have been teaching on these issues for the past four years.

In addition to the Outschool classroom, this class uses:USA Today
The Guardian
The New York Times
Wall Street Journal
Washington Post
The Daily Mail
Der Spiegel
People's Daily

Learners will be presented each week with three or four current events and by consensus we will chose two of them to evaluate each week.  Parents should be comfortable with their learners analyzing weekly current events around the globe. These topics may include controversial current events such as Covid or recent Supreme Court decisions and/or conflict around the globe such as the Ukraine/Russia situation.

current events will be taken from one of the most read global publishers of news.

Kirsten Bowman JD

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Average rating:4.9Number of reviews:(727)

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I am a human rights lawyer by profession and a university professor and mom by passion. I have my JD with a specialization in international law and completed my PhD in international law in 2023. 

I have travelled the world working for the UN as a...