digital literacy
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Articles
Why Is Digital Literacy So Often Overlooked as a Solution?
LINK to Psychology Today Article
KEY POINTS
- Parents are very concerned about media’s impact on kids’ mental health.
- Digital literacy builds protective factors for healthy media engagement.
- Digital literacy is often overlooked as a solution despite the psychological benefits.
Lessons and Curriculum
Civic Online Reasoning
Students are confused about how to evaluate online information. We all are. The COR curriculum provides free lessons and assessments that help you teach students to evaluate online information that affects them, their communities, and the world.
Crash Course | Navigating Digital Information
We’ve partnered with MediaWise, The Poynter Institute, and The Stanford History Education Group to develop this curriculum of hands-on skills to help you evaluate the information you read online. By the end of this course, you will be able to:
* Examine information using the same skills and questions as fact-checkers
* Read laterally to learn more about the authority and perspective of sources
* Evaluate different types of evidence, from videos to infographics
* Understand how search engines and social media feeds work
* Break bad internet habits like impatience and passivity, and build better ones