The.news: Newspapers in the Digital Age

The.News online video reports for the.Gov provide high school students with valuable exercises in language arts. Lesson plans are available to support multitudes of videos, e.g., “Cyberbullying: Effects on Teens
Across the Nation." Each lesson plan includes discussion questions, student activities, vocabulary, and primary reference sources on timely issues.

Standards & Objectives

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Key Objectives:
Students will be able to

  • trace the history of news dissemination.
  • evaluate significant developments in news dissemination.
  • construct an illustrated timeline.
  • explain the significance of developments in news dissemination.
  • predict future trends in news dissemination

Students will:

  • Analyze the changes that print media sources have undergone in the past several years.
  • Describe how the influx of Internet sources has affected traditional print media.
  • Predict how the face of journalism will change in the future.
  • Evaluate whether specific Internet sources can be considered valid and reliable.
  • Formulate an argument about a journalist’s First Amendment rights. 

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