Critical Literacy & Digital Citizenship
Resources to help us all be better digital citizens
Digital citizenship
Do the right thing: How to be a good digital citizen - Tip sheet
Behaving ethically online: Ethics and empathy – Lesson plan for grades 4 to 6
Behaving ethically online: Ethics and values – Lesson plan for grades 7 to 8
Online hate
Just a joke? Helping youth respond to casual prejudice – Lesson plan for grades 6 to 8
Online propaganda and the proliferation of hate – Lesson plan for grades 10 to 12
Challenging hate online – Lesson plan for grades 10 to 12
Free speech and the internet – Lesson plan for grades 10 to 12
Misinformation
Break the Fake: How to tell what's true online – Portal page
Check First, Share After: Tackling COVID-19 misinformation – Portal page
Know It or Not? Increasing resiliency to health and science misinformation (MediaSmarts is looking for teachers to test this new resource)
Journalism and news
Talking to kids about the news –Tip sheet
Talking to kids about hate in media – Tip sheet