Week 3

Sept 16-20

Digital Literacy

Information for Parents

In the real world we take time to teach children how to read novels, textbooks, road signs, etc. Each of these require some different skills. The digital world offers unique challenges and opportunities that also need to be addressed with children. We want them to be savvy digital consumers, but we also want them to use digital tools to create.

5 Ways to Spot Fake News

Spend some time talking to your kids about fake information online. Here are a few pointers about spotting fake websites.

Be Ad Savvy

Advertising had changed dramatically in the last five years. Often we are even unaware when a company is pitching something to us.

Try this with your kids

Get some discussion started by asking them the following questions:

do you know what people mean when they say say things like "fake news?"
Have you been able to find ways online to show some of your skills or abilities?

Information for Teachers

Here are some resources to help teach digital citizenship to your students.

Chapter Four: Digital Literacy

In this chapter Digital Literacy is boiled down into three distinct areas: consumption, evaluation, and creation. The bulk of our digital interaction is usually consumption, but at school we we want to give the students skills in evaluating online information and ultimately using newly gained knowledge and skills to create online content.

We will discuss over-consumption of media in week 7 when we look at Digital Wellness, but this chapter has some great discussion points and activities on digital evaluation and creation.

Don't Fall for Fake

A Google Slide Lesson to help students discern that things online aren't always what they seem to be.

Reality River

Use this game to quiz the students on discerning real and fake sources.

Bloom's Digital Taxonomy

A modern update of the popular educator's model of classifying cognition. This model can help us as we try to move the students from consumption to creating.

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