Digital Literacy

This is a collection of news and media literacy resources to help your students (various grade levels) explore the implications of the information they create, share, and consume. They'll develop skills that can help them go beyond fake news to identify the most reliable sources.

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.

The student version of Ctrl-F has videos and activities for students to learn how to evaluate information. Use this site in conjunction with the resources from the main Ctrl-F site. Requires free account

This article provides tips and lesson planning ideas for teachers wanting to help their students build the skills necessary to evaluate the validity and value of information.

This hiliarious video was created for Flocabulary, a Brooklyn based company which creates education rap songs and curricula for K-12 schools across the world

This is a search engine that also offers tools to help kids learn to be better searchers.

This lesson, for grades 5-6, is about search skills and critical thinking; it teaches students how to be specific in their online searches to avoid unwanted results, how to judge legitimacy, and how to find legitimate sources online for media works such as music, videos and movies.

This 2-minute video has tips for students that are reading information or doing research online.

This is a tip sheet designed to help parents help their kids do homework and research online. Find (reliable) information more effectively.

In this lesson, for grades 7-12, students apply the “5Ws" to online resources. Students use their skills to authenticate the information in an online article about the artificial sweetener, aspartame.

This lesson, for grades 10-12, is designed to help students determine the validity of information on the Internet. After reviewing key evaluation techniques, students assess selected online sources for accuracy, authority, advocacy, and objectivity.

Did you know that almost a quarter of adults have shared a false news story? This is a great new resource with advice on how to identify hoaxes and other false content.

This guide offers tips for dealing with life online once you are in college or university. The guide is divided into four sections: surviving school, money management, online relationships and taking care of yourself.

This is a collection of engaging "missions" during which students read a story on a social network feed; the story might be entirely true, entirely false, or somewhere in between.

This is a collection of engaging "missions" during which students read a story on a social network feed; the story might be entirely true, entirely false, or somewhere in between.

This article has four sections addressing recent findings about how adolescents do research: critical evaluation, modelling and practice, prompting and healthy skepticism.

When they’re used well, graphs can help us intuitively grasp complex data. But as visual software has enabled more usage of graphs throughout all media, it has also made them easier to use in a careless or dishonest way — and as it turns out, there are plenty of ways graphs can mislead and outright manipulate. Lea Gaslowitz shares some things to look out for.

Here are five questions that you can ask about a news article that you are reading. These tips will help you to find authentic and reliable information.