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Can Your Students Follow the Clues To Identify Facts and Motives?
09/08/2021
Topics: Digital & media literacy
As the pandemic lockdowns began in March 2020 and toilet paper disappeared from store shelves, the Newport, Oregon, Police Department posted this advice on Facebook: “Just don’t call 911. We cannot bring you…
5 Ways to Bring Ethical Thinking Into the Classroom
05/26/2021
Topics: Digital & media literacy, digital ethics
It’s hard to avoid ethics in the classroom. And why would we want to since it is those very discussions that help us all think deeply and critically about our roles in society and the larger world.
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Help Students Become Savvy Media Consumers
10/23/2020
Topics: Digital & media literacy, Fake news
In 2016, Stanford History Education Group conducted a study that showed students at the middle…
How To Teach Information Literacy
03/05/2020
Topics: Digital & media literacy, ISTE Expert Webinars, Librarians
As a school librarian and technology specialist, Caitlin McLemore took particular interest in a 2016 study…
From discord to civil discourse: The human side of digital citizenship
12/24/2019
Topics: #DigCitCommit, Digital & media literacy, Digital Citizenship
Gun violence, climate change, immigration, abortion. There seems to be no end to the number of divisive issues that are causing people from all walks of life to lash out in angry ways.
It’s not…
Empowering digital citizens with real-life scenarios
07/23/2019
Topics: Digital & media literacy, Digital Citizenship
Has North Carolina’s Ravenscroft School found a better way to teach digital citizenship? Edtech leader Sarah Loyola thinks so.
When Loyola came to Ravenscroft in August 2017 as its first director…
Teaching Fact Vs. Fiction When Seeing Is No Longer Believing
10/23/2020
Topics: Digital & media literacy, Fake news, Social media
When it comes to media literacy and our collective inability to tell fact from fiction online, there’s a lot of finger-pointing going on.
Take, for example, the widely shared…
Mike Walsh discusses AI, 5G networks and our relationship with tech
06/17/2019
Topics: Artificial intelligence, Digital & media literacy
When you want to know what the future holds for your students, Mike Walsh is the go-to guy.
Walsh is the CEO of the very appropriately named consultancy Tomorrow, but his description of his role is more…
10 resources to boost student media literacy
10/23/2020
Topics: Digital & media literacy, Digital Citizenship, Fake news
Whether it’s recognizing fake news, media bias or just information overload, media literacy has never been more important.
While librarians, media specialists and writing teachers have traditionally taken the lead in teaching research skills and media literacy, it’s increasingly up to…
Top 10 Sites To Help Students Check Their Facts
05/14/2021
Topics: #DigCitCommit, Digital & media literacy, Digital Citizenship
In a political climate where sharing fake news has become commonplace, it’s more important than ever to rely on trustworthy and dogged fact-checking services to vet information.
Our job as digital citizens requires more than…