Digital Literacy

With more and more of our Grammar children having access to the web, please take time to educate them to discern true and good information. When I teach 5th and 6th grade students about databases, I touch, very briefly, on determining if a piece of information fits what they are looking for. Digital literacy is not part of the Grammar Library curriculum.

The Upper School librarian, Fran Rader, has designed wonderful webpages devoted to information and digital literacy. I have used some of her curated information here. As your students move through Logic and Rhetoric, they will exercise their digital literacy muscles.

How to speak up without starting a showdown

AI Literacy Lessons for Grades 6–12 | Common Sense EducationQuick, grab-and-go lessons to teach your students how to be ethical and empowered users of artificial intelligence.

Is Breaking News Broken on Social Media? | Common Sense EducationUse this lesson plan to help students think critically about social media's impact on how we interpret the news.

Fact Checking Sites: They are not perfect and some have been accused of bias, but look for ones that provide links and explanations to their conclusions.

Fact-Checking Images

https://www.tineye.com/

https://images.google.com/

http://imageedited.com/

http://fotoforensics.com/

Deepfakes, explained | MIT SloanWhat are deepfakes, and how business leaders can learn to identify and protect against them.