Media Literacy: Using Current Events as a Learning Portal

I think this Daily Show segment of the New Yorker Obamas cover could fuel a terrific 1st class discussion in a high school media literacy or social studies class.

The Fourth Estate seems to have lost its way in their changing profession. I recommend several chapters from Good Work,an excellent and thought provoking work regarding what it means to do ethical and moral  work in this time. The authors, Howard Gardner, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and Howard Gardner examine two: genetics and journalism and seek to determine how to synthesize high-performance and social responsibility.

The theses presented in Good Work applies to our teaching profession also. We bandy about phrases about student engagement and promoting higher-order, critical thinking. This succinct and serious piece from Stewart will be instantly recognizable to our secondary students. How many of them would benefit from seeing this in a school context?