{"id":160,"date":"2010-11-10T13:59:23","date_gmt":"2010-11-10T11:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oeb.global\/OEB_Newsportal\/?p=160"},"modified":"2016-11-24T18:46:05","modified_gmt":"2016-11-24T16:46:05","slug":"%e2%80%9cthe-daily-%e2%80%9cthe-daily-what-news%e2%80%9d-%e2%80%93-adapting-live-news-stories-for-the-school-curriculum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oeb.global\/oeb-insights\/%e2%80%9cthe-daily-%e2%80%9cthe-daily-what-news%e2%80%9d-%e2%80%93-adapting-live-news-stories-for-the-school-curriculum\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe Daily What News\u201d \u2013 Adapting Live News Stories for the School Curriculum"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>\u201cThe Daily What News\u201d is Scotland\u2019s \u2013 and the world\u2019s – first online news service for schools. It is based on a daily live story output, around which students aged nine to sixteen, teachers and parents interact as part of the curriculum. Launched this autumn, the service represents one of the toughest content production challenges in online education. At OEB, the Editorial Director of the service, Stephen Haggard, will lead a hands-on Learning Caf\u00e9 in which all the participants will do live co-creation of the actual articles and classroom materials that will be served the next day to Scotland\u2019s schools. Here he describes the challenges. <\/strong><\/p>\n

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By Stephen Haggard<\/em><\/p>\n

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In this unprecedented real-time, content-making link-up between ONLINE EDUCA BERLIN and Glasgow, participants will directly face the demands of fitting real-world content to the disciplines of curriculum-based learning. During the Learning Caf\u00e9, we will also give first glimpse reports of the uptake and user response to what is certainly a world first service in e-learning.<\/p>\n

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From the start, OEB delegates will make the headlines. Working in groups, Learning Caf\u00e9 participants will scan the day\u2019s raw news content from service partner The Glasgow Herald, one of Scotland\u2019s top newspapers. Each group will select the day\u2019s most educationally valuable story and how to present it for two bands of reading ability. The most-voted story wins and is tomorrow\u2019s front page. From Berlin we will call our Editorial Team in Glasgow and get them to start writing!<\/p>\n

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Meanwhile, laptops out, the Learning Caf\u00e9 attendees will be faced with the next challenge. The lesson suggestions for learning around the chosen story must be written up. “The Daily What News” has a linked teacher-side, where basic ideas for lesson and homework tasks are seededand then elaborated by the \u2018teacher community\u2019 during the course of the day.<\/p>\n

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After previewing some examples of how a networked community of co-creating classroom practitioners turns a news story into school learning in a matter of hours, the OEB delegate groups will have ten minutes to write and e-mail their ideas for lessons and learning. Scotland\u2019s school rooms will be using these approaches the next day, so this is a risky pledge, but the team is sure that the world\u2019s e-learning brains will create good content.<\/p>\n

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Tagging and Labelling is the Key<\/h3>\n

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The strongest lesson from the experience of creating and delivering “The Daily What News” has been that however good the content, if users don\u2019t find what they are looking for, it\u2019s pointless. Tagging and labelling is the iceberg in content creation. With the 800-category metadata schemata of the Scottish curriculum uploadable to the laptops of the participants and the clock ticking towards publication time, we will present the ultimate task: how to make a sensible selection of tags that will allow future teachers to locate the assets created in this session. Which age, which subject, which skills, which learning experiences? The first drafts of the day\u2019s article are already back from Glasgow and, once again, OEB delegates will have to get to work and tag them. We will go with Berlin\u2019s tags.<\/p>\n

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Stephen Haggard, Independent Consultant and Learning Executive<\/DIV>
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Stephen Haggard<\/p><\/div>\n

Stephen works internationally across the full educational range from Primary to Higher Education and professional learning, advising and supporting clients to transform what they do using New Media and online delivery. He works at a senior level to shape successful projects, empower leaders, and give strategic vision on technology, change and learning. Project types and roles in which he has a current or recent leadership role include:<\/p>\n

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