Useful Resources

EVALUATING INFORMATION HANDOUT

Crash Course: Digital Literacy playlist

Great resource to share with students! This playlist focuses primarily on evaluating digital information. It includes topics such as fact checking, lateral reading, understanding charts and graphs, social media, using Wikipedia appropriately, and more. The videos are informative, funny, and to the point.

Common Sense Digital Literacy Lesson Plan

While this lesson plan focuses more on "fake news", it does offer ideas to help students relate what they've learned with their real life experiences.

Media Smarts Digital Literacy Framework for Grades 9-12

This is a collection of lesson ideas and resources that cover most aspects of digital literacy, including: Ethics and Empathy, Privacy and Security, Community Engagement, Digital Health, Consumer Awareness, Finding and Verifying, and Making and Remixing.

Checkology

This free platformed has lessons on teaching our students how to develop digital literacy and digital citizenship skills. There are three main types of lessons: learning (video-based), practice (where skills are put to use), and fact checking practice.

American Association of School Libraries and International Society for Technology in Education

The AASL and ISTE have collaborated to create new standards for teachers, school media specialists, and students to help make sure digital literacy is integrated into classrooms. These skills are important, for both students and teachers, in order for us to not only use technology appropriately and effectively, but to make sure we are lifelong learners with skills that can help us adapt to the ever-changing world.