Digital Literacy is "the interest, attitude and ability of individuals to use digital technology and communication tools appropriately to access, manage, integrate, analyze and evaluate information, construct new knowledge, and create and communicate with others"
(Province of BC, 2020).
To teach this important skill to our students, the Ministry of Education has created the Digital Literacy Framework (Province of BC, 2019), which provides a structured, age-appropriate approach to teaching children about Digital Literacy and Online Citizenship.
The Saanich School District has gone further and broken down the Digital Literacy Framework into three components for teaching: Respect, Educate, and Protect. This curriculum is outlined for K-5 students in the graphic below and shows additional connections to the core competencies curriculum that is already in place in our school.
The activities and resources on this website have been sourced and approved by the Saanich School District to be in alignment with the Digital Literacy Framework.
Image source @SD63DeepCove
Click below to view an introductory lesson slide deck on using technology with your students at Deep Cove
Image Sourced from Media Smarts
You can also check out the "USE, UNDERSTAND & ENGAGE: A Digital Media Literacy Framework for Canadian Schools" curriculum organized by grade level from k-12 by clicking above or on the media smarts logo. It contains useful lesson plans to support you as you work through topics with students- some of these are even linked in the grade specific pages.
BIA_Curriculum_June-2021_EN_PDF-Version.pdfDesigned for grades 2-6, this comprehensive curriculum provides activities and lesson plans for teachers to use with students and is supplemented by the Interland game linked on the grade-specific pages within this site. It also conveniently provides a parent introduction letter that you can send home to families. You will see portions of this curriculum directly linked on grade-speicific pages as well.