#4thchat is a hashtag for teachers or anyone to talk about educational issues relating to 4th grade. Using #4thchat will create a network of 4th grade teachers or teachers working with 9-10 year olds across the world. We welcome anyone who 1. teaches 4th grade 2 .Works with 4th grade students and or 4th grade teachers 3. Likes 4th grade teachers (Groupies are encouraged).
Jerry! I inspired a CybraryMan page! I thought you already had a page for everything! Can’t wait to check it out! Thank you for the compliment. Means a lot from you, friend. #4thchat
A1: #4thchat It's not consistent, try to incorporate major news events like the Tesla car in space launch into morning meeting news discussions. Or show clips from youtube so students are aware of what's going on in the world.
A1: I am not the best about covering current events. If I hear something interesting or if students bring something up then we discuss them.
I am curious how I can be better at this. #4thchat
I checked that out - but couldn't tell whether it was for 4th graders. It's so good to help kids be aware of what's going on in the world around them. #4thchat
A1: Today we had a lesson on using quotes, so we analyzed the most recent @utahjazz article in the paper as a model. Does that count as using current events? #4thchat
A1: #4thchat Last year I showed this during snack/milk break CNN 10 - CNN https://t.co/EhxdCwHyA5 This year I read during snack so haven't been doing it much but the students love the 10 minutes of current events here. @CNN10 Our 5th grade shows cnn10 every day.
A1: 4th is probably too young but for most of my middle classes @CNN10 starts the day. Have to monitor it first though. Posts the afternoon prior. #4thchat
A1: We would use TimeForKids. We had subscriptions - kids loved getting the 'magazine'. We would often pull up the online companion too! #4thchat TFK is full of all kinds of curric related content that is current!
#4thchat I find that almost all of the topics are handled well @cnn10 even for 4th grade. The students are seeing and hearing things at home but they do a great job with putting it into context for Ss.
A1: We use CNN Student News after I review it and also talk about countries and geography! My ss wrote papers pretending they lived in another country and had to research current events there. #4thchat
One of my co-ops did use it in 4th grade. Occasionally on a heavier subject she would skip it but since the episodes are available the night before it was pretty easy to proof them #4thchat
This remains one of my favorite current events...okay - maybe not a current event but hard to resist eaglets! Decorah Eagles: https://t.co/Sm9PhMUr9S#4thchat
#4thchat This is a good perspective. I think of current events as the "front page" of the newspaper, mostly politics or the world news of a cable news, but current events is broader--what going in the world and connecting Ss. Good perspective in this post.
A2: our reading curriculum does well in covering the past, but we do not cover current events as they happen. The kids like to discuss them during Olweus Meetings, lunch groups, etc. #4thChat
A3: @Newsela and @CNN10 CNN10 is great for video, Newsela is great for text based. Also incorporates assessment and can be more individualized; students can research what they're interested in. #4thchat
Could current events be: "This Day in History" or does it not count because it happened in the past? #4thchathttps://t.co/5QMfrhDZzz . Still fun, no matter.
A3: My absolute favorite is https://t.co/v47kUwQfAV. It’s current events/topics in education, but I share a lot of what I find there with students. #4thchat
Q4: Have you ever considered having a Current Events team that reports each day on a current event topic as part of your morning or closing routine? #4thchat
Found this resource & it made me think of your tweet. Online Newspaper Directory for the World: https://t.co/p817S7eSrZ#4thchat (not for kids - but could be used after previewing material). Window into other parts of the world. @stogdill4ed
A1: We use CNN Student News after I review it and also talk about countries and geography! My ss wrote papers pretending they lived in another country and had to research current events there. #4thchat
Thanks - I had a kiddo who LOVED history so I bought the book & he checked each day & would report to the class. Kept doing it the following years. #4thchat
A4: I hadn't considered it but that sounds like it could be really great. Maybe do it as an ongoing project at the end of a unit about current events/reporting? #4thchat#gccedu
Such a good point about covering the past. Our ELA program was like that too. Certainly Current events could be brought into the writing curriculum or even the math. Time for Kids ALWAYS has some type of interesting graph. #4thchat
A4: I have book clubs twice a week, and we talk about our book then current events. It is during my lunch time, so it is just an extra tidbit of learning I squeeze in #4thChat
A5: I've had this same question for a lot of teachers so I'm interested to hear practicing teachers' thoughts. Especially given the rise of political divides, Islamophobia, and school shootings. #4thchat
A5: During our class meetings, racism and gun violence came up naturally. The school shootings were discussed. I always struggle with verbiage, but we have a positive classroom culture to discuss these topics and be kind #4thChat
CNN came to our school & did a segment on one of our students https://t.co/bJuXH8hTlE They spent the WHOLE day at the school & it was a quick 2 minute video segment. #4thchat
A5: YES. I didn’t teach much about the last election because of feelings it caused in our community. Tread lightly around certain current event topics because of our population. #4thchat
Yeah I think it's important to find good news along with the bad, but some topics I feel need to be addressed given their potential impact on students' lives and culture as a whole. And I've just been curious to see how teachers go about that. #4thchat
#4thchat A5 I think if debate is to be had in the room, the topic needs to be one that Ss have their own genuine opinions on rather than opinions they are repeating from elsewhere. It's the thinking about discussions and the listening that's important.
My phone pops up important @CNN news now that I got a new one. I am glad to be in the know finally! I started watching the news at home with my kids too. #4thchat
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@ncarroll24, @BostonGlobe, @WCVB, @CNN
I think that's okay - It's hard sometimes to find appropriate events for our students. I like to tie things into what we're learning - doesn't always happen. #4thchat@Figueira0125
#4thchat Give the power to students to discover, test reliability & bias, create current event stories/community media around respected visions such as NPR. Create producers of rich information instead of consumers of noise. https://t.co/t9znDUuYiZhttps://t.co/Rk4DVlHXSi
A5: #4thchat (free account to see full article) This was one shared reading the students were genuinely engaged debating. Newsela - Opinion: Allow kids less time on digital devices https://t.co/yhtR82pKn9
A4: This is a great idea - it could be a classroom job. Of course, you'd have to provide a resource (maybe via Google Classroom) for team to use to report on. #4thchat
Q4: Have you ever considered having a Current Events team that reports each day on a current event topic as part of your morning or closing routine? #4thchat
#4thchat A7 Not just Ss but all of us. It's increasingly easy to only hear from people like you and who agree with you (and the rest of the world is then in a minority and crazy) Eli Pariser: Beware online "filter bubbles" | TED Talk https://t.co/ahOwAa4Qob
I think this is true. I keep trying to explain that everything you see on your computer/internet isn’t true. Even pictures can be doctored up and fake. #4thchat
A6: Our school has paid for Time For Kids. We used to get a Social Studies Weekly https://t.co/4VfaHK7Eev This was a good newspaper as it covered 84% of our curriculum. Not as flashy & engaging as TFK. #4thchat
#4thchat This was shocking the first time I saw it. Real-time Facial Reenactment Software Creates Fake Videos of People Talking That Look Real - YouTube https://t.co/nQzF0Dp1Jd
#4thchat And here is the real time "fake audio" tech that is here now too. Adobe demos “photoshop for audio,” lets you edit speech as easily as text | Ars Technica https://t.co/iJSiLR7Und
I think this is true. I keep trying to explain that everything you see on your computer/internet isn’t true. Even pictures can be doctored up and fake. #4thchat
Well - my kids are only 7 and 5 so they don't understand all of it, and there are times I skip stories that aren't appropriate. However, we have had some interesting conversations based on what they hear. #4thchat
#4thchat We have used the Velcro story with Ss before. Obvious Hoax Sites - Web sites to use for evaluation purposes - Library Guides at Iowa State University https://t.co/Gf2OQik8JG
OMGoodness. I saw one of Obama - and it was scary and then at then end they show a person on the side - saying the same thing. I wondered how they did this. I DON'T like it! #4thchat
@snopes is a resource to help prove real vs fake, but you would want to pick certain topics for students. Not all topics are the most appropriated for 4th graders. #4thchat
A8: This just in! I had kids look up a figure in history and write a 30 audio brief pretending the event that made them famous had JUST happened. Their enthusiastic voices were great! #4thchat
#4thchat I have been known to be the person that "replies all" to a fake news chain with the snopes link showing something is fake so it stops (or at least gets people to stop and think). Bonus is I don't get sent many of those anymore.
Online Newspaper Directory for the World: https://t.co/ZfDul9Q5hl#4thchat (not for kids - but could be used after previewing material). Window into other parts of the world. (HT to @ncarroll24). I bookmarked it.
I love it all. Usually I listen on my commute, so Morning Edition and All Things Considered. But also This American Life, TED radio hour, Science Friday, Wait Wait Don't Tell Me... you can't go wrong! #4thchat
