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

Completed by 80 learners
Ages 13-18
Live Group Class
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.
Average rating:
4.9
Number of reviews:
(775 reviews)
Popular

Live video meetings
1x per week
4-18 learners per class
55 min

What's included

1 live meeting
55 mins in-class hours per week

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 determine where is came from, if it is an opinion or fact piece, if there is bias, if it can be corraborated etc.  We will fact check and use critical analysis in order to each determine, individually, how to form our own opinions and ideas from the event.  This critical exercise for ethical individuals living in a democratic society will hope to create life-long critical consumers of current events and news in our modern day democratic societies. 

The topics will be chosen each week depending on class consensus and important news of the week.  The teacher will provide several options and the two that most interest the majority of learners that week will be chosen.  For example, one week the potential topics could include, the conflict in Ukraine, crypto-currency, rising temperatures in the Arctic, coup d état in Mali. From those topics, the learners will chose which two interest them the most that week. Then, based on the topics we will read several types of source material, such as, for example, a front page news article, a opinion blog post and an editorial in order to compare and understand exactly where the source comes from, whether there is bias or perspective and whether facts can be corroborated.

Learning Goals

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.

Other Details

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

Meet the teacher

Joined May, 2018
4.9
775reviews
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Teacher expertise and credentials
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.  

Reviews

127 total ratings, 64 with reviews

Review summary for this class
The reviews overwhelmingly praise the teacher Harriet for her engaging and encouraging teaching style, as well as her ability to keep students focused and interested in drawing anime characters. Many parents note that their children gained confidence in their drawing abilities and looked forward to the class each week. The variety of characters covered and the step-by-step guidance provided helps students improve their skills. If your child is interested in anime and drawing, this class seems like an excellent choice to nurture their passion and creativity.
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Awesome teacher, very engaging and encouraging. Our daughter loves these... 
Joanna S.on Mar 3, 2024
Harriet is such a great teacher! Her interest in anime is so great for... 
Arianna A.on Aug 2, 2023
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Jane R.on Jul 2, 2023
My daughter takes several of Harriet's classes. She benefits from her... 
Kimberly R.on Mar 12, 2023
Another awesome offering from Teacher Harriet! My daughter really enjoys... 
Kimberly R.on Feb 25, 2023
Fun & upbeat class!
Melanie P.on Jan 5, 2023
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