Tuesday is current events day in our homeroom activity rotation, and that usually means CNN 10 and some kind of quiz game. For those who are unaware, CNN 10 is a 10 minute news show for secondary students produced every week day from September to May by, you guessed it, CNN. For the most part, it's not objectionable; the coverage ranges from politics, both national and international, to the domestic economy, with a large dose of science, heavy on climate change and astronomy.
The quiz we usually do is a Kahoot. Again, for you non-schoolies, Kahoot is a web based platform where anyone can create quiz games. They also offer some public content that the company creates. Good News of the Week is one of those quiz games. As you might imagine the question can be a bit hit or miss in terms of their content. They definitely do not align with CNN 10, but the quizzes are usually entertaining.
Today was kind of a bust though. The kids (and I!) only got 34% overall accuracy. The questions were all over the place and more than a little esoteric ranging from the number of bike spots in a new underwater garage in Amsterdam (7000) to Louis Vuitton's partnership with Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama to the capture of a record-setting, nearly 7 pound cane toad in Australia.
We were all dismayed to learn in the follow-up info that the toad was later euthanized, as it is an invasive pest introduced to Australia from South America in 1935 in hopes of controlling the Cane Beetle which was harming crops. Since then, the toads have flourished, unchecked by natural predators, and have become a huge threat themselves to many native reptiles, birds, and mammals.
At the end of the game we all agreed that that particular news item was definitely not good, especially for the toad.
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