I recently added a several pages of RSS News feeds to our library page. Students can choose feeds about World News, U.S. News, Local News, or Science News.
I'm hoping teachers will have students compare news stories from a range of sources so that they get practice identifying bias, discussing authenticity, and reasoning about the "life expectancy" of news stories; for instance, reading about the turmoil in Libya from the New York Times, the BBC, and from Al Jazeera.
I dusted-off my Jing software to make this demo:
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