Keep your courses relevant to what is happening in the world. Your students will be able to keep up with current events, as well as make connections between the subject matter and reality.
You can incorporate news articles into your courses in the following ways:
1. Post the news coverage topic that you want the class to engage in the discussion forum each week. Have the students provide feedback by citing legitimate academic sources to back up their response.
2. Allow each student to post their own weekly news coverage topic in the discussion forum and have them reply to at least three of their classmates' posts.
3. Make one of the course assignments about contemporary events related to the subject matter.
4. Post a list of news article links the students should read each week and make short pop quizzes related to those links. You may average their pop quiz grades and use it as part of their overall participation grade.
5. Post a list of links to news videos on the same story by different news stations. Have each student write an analysis of how each station portrays the story (differences in words used, facts, images, facial expressions of speakers, questions asked, etc.).
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