Classrooms shift to internet news
A new survey by the Carnegie-Knight Task Force at Harvard University shows teachers are using Internet-based news more than newspapers or television news.
"Students do not relate to newspapers at all--any more than they would to vinyl records," one teacher said in the study.
The survey finds that among teachers now making use of news, 67 percent claim “the Internet has made news use in the classroom easier and better,” and their media choices further reveal the Internet’s dominance. Fifty-seven percent of the teachers surveyed say they frequently use Internet-based news in the classroom -- roughly twice the proportion using national television news or the daily newspapers on a frequent basis.
The study also shows that teachers, as they have moved to the Internet, have switched from using hundreds of local news outlets to making use of a small number of national ones. Internet-based news in the classroom is dominated by the websites of a few top news organizations including CNN, PBS, and The New York Times. In fact, the classroom use of non-U.S. websites, such as BBC’s, even exceeds the use of local TV or newspaper sites.
You can read the full report here.
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