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Common Core State Standard
SL.CCS.1/2/3/4 Grades 6-12: An essay of a current news event is provided for discussion to encourage participation, but also inspire the use of evidence to support logical claims using the main ideas of the article. Students must analyze background information provided about a current event within the news, draw out the main ideas and key details, and review different opinions on the issue. Then, students should present their own claims using facts and analysis for support. FOR THE WEEK OF MAR. 27, 2006 Apple anniversary is milepost on tech highway![]() ![]() Breakthroughs from Apple and other technology innovators are presented in various parts of the newspaper, depending on the product and approach. They may run on Page One, in the business section, on lifestyle pages or with entertainment news. Challenge the class to think of more topics that "float" easily between sections because they interest workers, investors, consumers, students or others.
![]() Apple’s new products and 30th anniversary are presented as news, even though the articles benefit a company competing to make money. Ask students to find examples of coverage that probably helps a business or an industry, and then offer arguments for and against that type of "free advertising" in news columns. When is it legitimate? What standards can editors use to be fair?
![]() Reports on music downloads, cool web sites and other technology developments show how newspapers raise awareness of things that can be "rivals" for readers’ time and attention -– just as they do with coverage of movies, TV, radio, live entertainment and even local athletic events. Invite class members to discuss why newspapers do this and who benefits from such coverage.
Apple anniversary is milepost on tech highway
A hugely successful California company created by two personal technology industry visionaries turns 30 this week. Apple Computer was founded by college dropouts Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, who filed partnership documents on April 1, 1976. As it turned out, their business was no April Fool’s Day joke. Apple has profits, global influence and an image of creating hip, innovative products – notably the Mac desktop computer, the iPod digital player and the iTunes online shop with 99-cent music downloads. Even Pope Benedict XVI now wears earbuds plugged into a sleek iPod Nano, a recent gift from Vatican Radio staffers. In accepting the 2-gigabyte gadget with a 500-song capacity, the pontiff noted that "computer technology is the future." Apple’s next splash is expected to be an iTunes Movie service offer full-length feature film downloads, a move that Amazon also reportedly is planning. That convergence of entertainment, marketing and technology would be the latest example of high-speed developments that are making this more of a Tech Planet and changing how we shop, communicate, learn and relax.
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