Lesson Resources

Common Sense Media offers interactive lessons and activities for all students, breaking it down by each grade K-12. The digital citizenship lesson plans address timely topics and prepare students to take ownership of their digital lives. You can browse the lessons by grade or topic, in addition to viewing the curriculum.

Teaching Digital Literacy

Link to a review showing Nik Peachey's online lessons. Peachey specializes in developing online activities for language learning that students and teachers can use in class or in distance learning. His online courses explores the factors that influence existing study skills and encourages students to take part in online research into effective study skills techniques. Key skills developed include the ability to study and research online, the ability to read and understand digital information, the ability to check the credibility of online information, the students’ ability to carry out online research and to represent their findings visually and the ability to extract information from research and create informative text based on their findings. There is a teacher’s presentation, a student’s version of the presentation, and an infographic, all of which can be accessed online. The course offers a model that can be used by teachers, by students researching information and creating texts, and also for teacher training programs (Vouillemin, 2019).

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Learning For Justice

This website site provides activities for teachers to use in the classroom to teach digital literacy. The lessons/activities are broken up by grade range, with K-2 and 3-5 having their own set of lessons that cover different skills for digital literacy. This site also highlights what topics and content to cover in activities, as well as stating information for why it is important to teach and learn about digital literacy. There are also resources to go beyond its activities, as well as a professional development tab for educators. A Digital Literacy Framework is available to see each lesson sorted by skill.

Digital Footprint Collaborative Poster

This Digital Citizenship writing activity poster combines the engagement of coloring, creativity, and group work! All inspired by promoting good digital citizenship in your classroom. The collaborative poster comes with a discussion handout for, “how can you be a good digital citizen.” The poster features social media, downloading files, posting messages and pictures, using apps, publishing content, a writing prompt and brain friendly fun. ()

You can find it under Teachers Pay Teachers.

Digital Citizenship Classroom Displays

This teacher’s site offers great digital literacy resources for other teachers to use in their classroom that are fun and engaging for students. There are classroom posters that are inspired by Pokémon characters, and ones with Star Wars. Each poster is a “digital literacy” Pokémon, with its own stats of abilities and weaknesses that are digital literacy-based. The Star Wars ones provide quotes relatable to the movies and digital literacy world. There are other posters that this site offers in addition to other classroom decor, printables, and skills to support student learning.

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Digital Literacy Unpacked

This book by Katharine Reedy and Jo Parker provides collaboration and inspiration in the topic of digital literacy. It's contents include varying and numerous perspectives, content, and ideas for educators to further educate in the classroom. The content within the book covers the terminology, approaches, and frameworks that teach with the use of digital tools and curriculum design critical approaches to literacy combating social exclusion. The book will be useful reading for library and information professionals across the sector (higher education, schools, business/corporate, special, public), institutional leaders and managers, and LIS students. It will also be useful reading for educational technologists, learning and teaching professionals.

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