Jared KaltwasserinCurious Teaching5 Ways Social Studies Teachers Can Support Reading Comprehension in the ClassroomI always planned to be a Social Studies teacher, even when I was a journalist by profession. Then, in my second year as a middle-school…Oct 16, 2020Oct 16, 2020
Jared Kaltwasserinjaredkalt.Kim Reynolds, COVID-19, and the Difference Between Data and ScienceCOVID-19 has changed our society in ways we won’t begin to fully understand for months or years. But one of the most immediate changes to…Apr 3, 2020Apr 3, 2020
Jared Kaltwasserinjaredkalt.4 Ways the Media Can Rise to the Challenge of Covering the COVID-19 PandemicWhen Chanel Rion, a television personality who attends White House press briefings on behalf of the One America News Network, asked…Mar 22, 20201Mar 22, 20201
Jared Kaltwasserinjaredkalt.Someone Tell the New York Times: ‘Extremism’ in Defense of Survival Is No Vice“You’re dueling on the ring of a volcano, and I don’t think we should be willing to gamble like that.”Aug 9, 20191Aug 9, 20191
Jared Kaltwasserinjaredkalt.That false “Police Pulling Over Good Drivers” story offers lessons in journalism, democracy…Anybody who has ever been a newspaper reporter will know this feeling all too well. You come back from reporting a story, you ramble off…Jul 30, 2019Jul 30, 2019
Jared Kaltwasserinjaredkalt.3 Reasons Digital Newspaper Subsciptions are a Hard Sell (and 3 Potential Fixes)I’m a huge fan of the podcast Open Source. I support the weekly program with a monthly donation via Patreon, and you should, too. I wear my…Jul 9, 20183Jul 9, 20183
Jared KaltwasserWhy the House Intelligence Committee’s Snowden Report Deserves Attention, Despite Its Lack of…As I move from the realm of journalism to the realm of education, I’ve been thinking a lot about the case (or lack thereof) for engaging in…Sep 18, 2016Sep 18, 2016
Jared KaltwasserWhen ‘Context’ Becomes a Cop-OutThe New York Times “stealth edits” a story about Bernie Sanders. Their explanation makes things worse.Mar 17, 2016Mar 17, 2016
Jared KaltwasserHigh Horses and Moral High Ground: The Cokie Roberts/NPR ‘Clarification’Mar 14, 2016Mar 14, 2016
Jared KaltwasserTwitter’s ‘Moments’ feels like a relic from a time gone byThe first time I used the World Wide Web was in my middle school computer lab in the seventh or eighth grade. At the time, I didn’t know…Nov 12, 2015Nov 12, 2015