Get Your Students to Love the News, #5: Vox explains current events step by step
There’s a big new trend happening in the news industry, and it’s called explanatory journalism. Also known as data journalism, it’s the recen...
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Yahoo News Digest is sharp and sleek. Students might like it. Here’s why I don’t.
If you’re a loyal Iserotope reader, which I know you are (or want to be), you’ve been following my “Get Your Students to Love the News”...
Pocket + Evernote: Easy way for teachers to format news articles and nonfiction
If you’re a teacher, you know this story. It’s Sunday night, and you have a pit in your stomach because you still haven’t found a good articl...
Get Your Students to Love the News, #3: Newsela meets kids at their reading level
Imagine my joy when I found out about Newsela, a website that modifies the vocabulary and syntax of news articles to match the reading levels of students. I wi...
Get Your Students to Love the News, #2: Circa explains current events concisely
Update, Sept. 2014: This post is now out of date, thanks to circa’s 3.0 update, which is beautiful! But most of the post still stands. Yes, it makes me c...