The goal of the lesson is to learn a method of accessing seemingly limitless information about any historical event, in an online world.
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Give students 5 minutes to search for information on a topic being studied.
Have a quick discussion , analyze the sites did they found too densely written, too superficial, too hard to read? Did they all find the same links?
II
( Show a clip of a real news event) ... A helicopter has crash landed into the top of a building. What has happened?
Ask students, " Who would you want to talk to? "