It scares me to know that not many youth are updated on their current events. As I was reading this passage on poynter.org, I remembered the first time I took a journalism course with Professor Barnes at SUNY Albany. Prof. Barnes introduced the course with a quiz about current events, and it became an habitual thing every class once he learned that a majority of the class didn’t know anything going on in the news.
What does this tell us about our young people? It tells us that they are not really interested in current events anyhow. I can take a guess that they are more interested in what’s going on in Facebook that about the war with the U.S. in Libia. After seeing this video by YouTube sensation Kassem G, in which he interviewed Californian’s about the issue in Egypt, it tells me that students have pay little attention to the news.
This is an issue. I think the solution is to incorporate current events in the curriculum in our schools. Perhaps incorporate in the classroom lessons of any subject and students will begin paying attention to the news.
