Week 4: Journalism + Ethics
Posted by Deanna Bradford on May 30, 2013
Monday April 22
Discuss HW reading: Students talk about their answers to the questions. Discuss as a class.
Have them answer critical process questions comparing two news sources:
2 pairs compare Fox and MSNBC
2 pairs compare CNN and BBC
1 pair compares NPR to Aljazeera
Answer questions and discuss.
Tuesday April 23
– Students compare their two articles: create a poster with a venn diagram.
– Give students the assignment for their next blog. (If we have time, discuss it, they can brainstorm.)
Wednesday April 24:
-Warm-up: Introduce what students will be doing in the class and remind them of what they’ve been doing with comparing articles of different news stations.
-In pairs brainstorm journalists’ code of ethics. What are some rules for journalists?
-Handout of ‘Good journalists should:’
-Introduce ‘ethics’ (Write definition from learner’s dictionary on board)
-Put pairs into groups–students compare what they brainstormed and write group code of ethics on large paper.
-Give SPJ code of ethics–students read through them and find what they already wrote on their papers. They find favorite one from each section and paraphrase to add to their own code of ethics.
-If there’s time, collaborate as a class to come up with a class code of ethics.
Thursday- prep presentations/ peer review of blogs
-Ask students to sit with the groups they were in for the Code of Ethics project. Ask them if they need time to discuss their poster in their groups before they discuss as a class.
-Students present their posters.
-We put all of the posters on one wall, we all gather around them, and mark the rules that everyone agrees on
-Teacher will put ‘new’ code on WordPress.
* Peer review blog posts/ put them on blog.
* Presentation guidelines- discuss/answer questions. Ts will do a presentation on Monday. Ss present Wed/Thurs.
May 30th, 2013 at 11:23 pm
I really like the idea of comparing different news sources. Could you share with us the critical process questions that students need to answer as they compare those news sources?
On another note, I like the Code of Ethics project. The society of Professional Journalists (http://www.spj.org/ethicscode.asp) seems to be a really interesting site. Have you thought about giving students some scenarios (ethical dilemma) to discuss and later come up with their solutions?