This webpage provides visitors with resources to help them promote digital literacy and digital citizenship in their classroom.
“Digital literacy is the ability to use information and communication technologies to find, evaluate, create, and communicate information, requiring both cognitive and technical skills.” An article from edweek discusses the importance of digital literacy.
A digital citizen is a person who uses information technology in order to engage responsibly in society, politics, and civic activities.
This document provides a comprehensive list of digital literacy resources that can be used in the classroom to help foster digital learning. I will share some of the resources from this document, which I've used below.
Google provides several how-to guides, lesson plans, and relevant apps for digital literacy.
Stanford has created the Civic Online Reasoning Institute to help students evaluate online information.
Turnitin has provided an excellent treasure trove of online resources such lesson plans, posters, and activities for teachers to use in their pursuit to educate students about evaluating online resources. This was one of my favorite resources from the one-stop hub. NewseumED has also created an online evaluative lesson plan.
The News Literacy Project, a nonpartisan education nonprofit, is building a national movement to advance the practice of news literacy throughout American society. They have a game called Informable, where it allows for students to test their news literacy through evaluating different types of sources. They have an infographic that teaches about Misinformation.
CRAAP is an acronym for Currency, Relevance, Authority, Accuracy, and Purpose. Students can utilize the CRAAP Test to help them evaluate news sources in order to determine their reliability. There are many online resources that do a good job introducing the CRAAP Test. The Library at the Benedictine University has provided an introductory video, a slide presentation, an evaluation sheet, and an evaluating sources' checklist.
The NYT has created a Learning Network that provides visitors with lesson plans, writing prompts, and Picture and Graph analyses activities. Here is an infographic that explains the anatomy of the Front Page of the NYT.
Ad Fontes Media, Inc. is a media watchdog organization primarily known for its Media Bias Chart, which rates media sources in terms of political bias and reliability. The website contains many useful resources such as an Interactive Media Bias Chart about where major news organizations rank ideologically; a Static Media Bias Chart, dedicated to the evolution of the rankings over the years; and a Methodology Section, dedicated to how the ranking analyses were conducted.