An Excellent Tool for Building Students' Writing Skills while having a Real-World Impact

How I Use It

This tool allows for a classroom specific news page to be generated with new stories available every week. As a class, the students then select by vote which stories they want to discuss, and Friday classes every other week are spent as a Socratic seminar discussing the articles and the students' opinions. This allows the students to really examine current events and interact with them in a constructive manner with their classmates, it can allow them to more deeply develop their opinions on controversial issues from mere feelings to well-considered positions. Furthermore, because it deepens their working knowledge of these issues it gives them the ability to improve their debate skills and back their positions with evidence which is a supremely useful tool for them to develop for their academic writing.