New York, NY (PRWEB) February 28, 2017
Twitter, Facebook and other prominent new social and online media platforms have a very different structure to any free press vehicle we have seen in the modern world. There is no third party editing process by a recognized and respected media brand. Content “as is” is simply shared among a multitude of users. Respected traditional news outlets have also endured criticism and hardships. Competition from the new web companies has challenged them in a way that, according to the Pew research center, “goes far beyond the financial side, to the very core elements of the news industry itself.”
The Top Global Teacher Bloggers offer a range of insights from years of innovating pedagogical practice. They have founded schools, crafted curricula, written books and articles, led think-tanks and managed classrooms in seventeen different countries that stretch across every populated continent on earth. They are inventors and trend-setters in fields such as technology integration and innovation, mathematics instruction, literacy coaching, special needs education, science instruction, and gender equity.
“Media education is more important than ever,” stresses Maarit Rossi, who shares Finnish schools’ tradition of “News week,” a collaboration between schools and the press. “Students need to read more, and not just for pleasure, but also for exposure to the human condition,” notes Pauline Hawkin, who believes people “cannot be critical thinkers when they have limited knowledge and limited experiences.” Shaelynn Fransworth believes the phenomenon provides “teachable moments for educators across the globe,” and especially the important conversations in which students “understand the value of fake news in the age of information.”
“I teach them to evaluate why some information can be subjective, by studying the motives of the persons behind the published information.” says Jasper Rijpma.
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