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Digital Natives Hunt for '5Ws' and 'H'

When the identification of essential building blocks of a news story is taught in schools, students imbibe important lessons in checking & analysis of facts.

To make sense of the digital chaos our students live in, I decided to go back to basics. We know the reality: nobody wants to read a newspaper anymore; everyone is glued to their mobile screens. So, we started an experiment in one of our schools to bridge that gap.I walked into a classroom and handed out physical newspapers. The students just stared at them. They were used to scrolling through headlines, not engaging with columns of text. I told them, "No, you’re going to read the whole story....

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