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Many educators have remarked that Youngzine is a perfect complement to academic material, and can be a great resource for teachers and their classes. Learning through current events not only makes students more aware of what's going on in the world, but also helps absorb concepts better.
Youngzine provides a safe and private blog environment for classrooms - a constructive, creative and controlled way for teachers to create classroom assignments and foster discussions on current events.
Youngzine provides special features just for you, if you sign up as a Teacher:
- Each of your classes gets a unique "Classroom Code" that identifies the students in that class. Your students will join the classroom using this code.
- For each class, you can post assignments and have students respond. You can include specific articles and quizzes in each assignment.
- For each of your classes, you will see a report of your student's activities: their comments, assignment responses, points and quiz results.
These are some creative ways in which some teachers are already using Youngzine.
- Teachers allow their children to make comments on articles (public comments), take quizzes, rate articles, participate in contests -- features that are available to all.
- Teachers create custom assignments in their classrooms and have students respond and discuss, right on Youngzine! This is a great way to gauge their children's understanding and foster a discussion/debate between students.
- Some teachers ask for subjective opinions or ask to summarize an article, as a way to encourage children to think and write. As an example: "What do you think of Oxford English Dictionary's decision to add words like OMG and LOL?"
It only takes 2 minutes to get started: JOIN YOUNGZINE, go the the Classroom Tab, and create your classroom.
If you have any questions or comments, let us know - we'd love to make this work for your class.
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nu uh. we do like 2 hours of works a day, and school starts when my mom gets up. it is awesome!
i was home schooled for 3rd 4th and 5th grade. It was great, but when i got to middle school, i decided to go. and I'm glad i did. If your in elementary, home schooling is great. middle school… not so much
That's what I do a lot.
of course
I'm not trying to argue here, but in public school there's a playground, recess, and you get to hang out with others more.
Definitely, same here
yeah. the freedom of homeschooling makes me very independent
I completely agree with everything you said.
your right it is
what do you mean editor?
yep exactly
thats super funny if you had three weeks of homeschooling you would wish have to never go to public school again.
me to! its so nice!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! im not stuck in a class all day
why not its fun
why not i like it its so fun ! and i have plenty of free time
I don`t wanna be homeschooled!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I don't want to be homeschooled!!!!!!
I am in too
We dont think larreese intended it that way - it may have been a way to differentiate school from home school. :-)
REAL school? Wow that's condescending.
well, i don't mean like really bad. I guess you're right Rohith All
i'm home schooled and i really like it! and no offence but if i went to school and someone tried to bully me, i don't think they could!
yeah that's very true. and if you go to public school we're NOT making fun of you! i PROMISE! it's just something that is very true!
i totally agree Tressa!
me too!
i love homeschooling! even though i love homeschooling, i wonder how public school is.in my opinion i think it's horrible.
I like homeschooling, but I don't have anything to compare it to because I've never went to public school before.
I'm in 5th grade and I agree with you Babe, homeschooling is so much more fun.
We homeschooled from the start.
You get to make friends if your in clubs, doing sports, scouts,homeschool groups, anything like that you can make friends.
I'm in 6th grade right now, and homeschooled!! And I really like it.
WHAT ARE YOU?
3RD
I'M IN PUBLIC SCHOOL AND I LOVE IT!
Hi Greta - The classroom feature is for teachers to register their classroom and share assignments based on Youngzine articles. If you are part of a class at school, you can encourage your teacher to create an account.
me too!
wow, i didn't know so many people were homeschooled, i am not though.
yeah..
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