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Why Is Digital Literacy So Often Overlooked as a Solution?

LINK to Psychology Today Article

by Pamela B. Rutledge Ph.D., M.B.A.
Positively Media
 

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

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Civic Online Reasoning — the ability to effectively search for, evaluate, and verify social and political information online.
 
This is a curriculum by The Stanford History Education Group (SHEG), a research and development group based in Stanford’s Graduate School of Education

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

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A ten episode playlist by CrashCourse on youtube.
In 10 episodes, John Green will teach you how to navigate the internet!

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

Checkology | The News Literacy Project

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Checkology is a free e-learning platform with engaging, authoritative lessons on subjects like news media bias, misinformation, conspiratorial thinking and more.
 
Learners develop the ability to identify credible information, seek out reliable sources and apply critical thinking skills to separate fact-based content from falsehoods.
 

Experts lead the way

Top journalists and experts guide you through Checkology’s interactive lessons.

Featuring real-world examples from social media and news sites, these authoritative e-learning experiences resonate with learners of all ages.