Putting The New York Times in the Classroom

You may have seen the news that the Lenoir-Rhyne libraries provides students with full-text access to the New York Times. If you haven't, you'll want to access this first. See how here:

Otherwise, I wanted to take a minute to share the additional resource that is included with our institutional subscription. You now also have access to the New York Times In Education site, which provides both educators and students the ability to make the most of NYTimes.com’s digital 24/7 content.  This includes faculty contributions, curated New York Times articles, custom news alerts, co-curricular activities, and weekly digests in several major subject areas, including Environmental Sciences, Psychology, Population Health, Leadership and more making this a  fruitful resource for faculty on the Asheville campus.

 

Articles are curated and categorized by discipline (and also tagged with learning outcomes!) to be used as discussion starters, evidence for trends, and/or just a good representation of  the current goings-on in a given discipline. Here's a little bit more information on what's available for each discipline:

Environmental Sciences

Enriches student learning about the relationships of the natural world and the connection between organisms and their environment.

Psychology

Headlines, stories, and interviews from the Times become prompts for self-reflection and thinking like a psychologist and can be used to deepen discussion of the topic and highlight current directions in research.

Population Health & Nursing

Broadens students knowledge of health and wellness from the cellular to the global through a dynamic process of discussion, analysis and policy based on the latest in health science and the health of populations.

Leadership

The New York Times in Leadership gives teachers, scholars, practitioners and students the opportunity to connect and discuss real-world leadership examples through various platforms, online and offline.

There are also two other areas to explore: first, there's Ideas for Co-curricular Activities which gives examples and then there's General Instructional Strategies which provides learning activities and assignment ideas for many disciplines.

NOTE: The co-curricular activities areas appears to be a work in progress, because there were a lot of dead links when I clicked on Learn More in some of these activities) so  I would stress that this just features general ideas

To access this site, visit http://nytimesineducation.com/ and choose Login from the menu at the upper right hand corner. If you haven't registered to access the New York Times yet, you'll need to  follow the instructions  to create an account using your Lenoir-Rhyne email address as your username.