This single-day lesson challenges students to consider questions of ethics when involving citizens as journalists through social media in dangerous breaking news events.
Students will participate in a discussion about distributing various products and then complete two assignments to consider the event planning process and addressing audience complaints and feedback, as well as corrections and Letters to the Editor
Students will read a case study from Mill Valley High School in Kansas about an article that actually caused a disturbance in school because social media extended the opportunities for readers to respond to the article
This lesson prompts students to create a vision poster for the entrepreneurial aspects of their journalism program, detailing their current reality and describing improvements that should be made