Digital Literacy

The Association for Media Literacy is composed of teachers, librarians, consultants, and media professionals interested in the impact of the media on contemporary culture. Media literacy is an educational initiative that aims to increase peoples’ understanding and enjoyment of how media work.

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.

The Crash Course YouTube channel has a playlist for their series about media literacy. There is a quick preview video plus twelve videos that address various topics related to media literacy.

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

An online game for students that will help them hone their skills at identifying fake news

Learn about media literacy and access resources for teaching this important skill in your classroom. There are also ideas for getting involved in Media Literacy Week and key resources for the year's theme.

In this lesson for grades 4-6, students learn what an avatar is and discuss the influence of avatars on identity and body image. Students also create a media product that communicates their self-perception and representation, reflecting on the relationship between identity and online representation.

There are a selection of excellent teaching resources here, connected to curriculum and covering one or more of seven key digital issues; each lesson has icons to indicate which digital literacy themes it covers.

Check out this selection of teaching resources drawing on seven key aspects of digital literacy and connected to curriculum; each lesson has one or more icons to indicate which digital literacy themes it covers.

There are a selection of excellent teaching resources drawing on seven key aspects of digital literacy; each lesson has one or more icons to indicate which digital literacy themes it covers.

These resources explore diversity representation in media, including Aboriginal people, persons with disabilities, visible minorities, queer and religion. You will find resources for both parents and teachers.

Making Your Voice Heard: A Media Toolkit for Youth is designed to help young people understand how the news industry works (different roles), why youth stereotyping happens and how they can access media to get positive youth voices and stories heard.

Media Smarts has developed these "media minute" videos for use by educators. Each video discusses a specific topic in media literacy and includes a lesson plan (linked just below the video).

This lesson was created by UNICEF to help students in grades 6 - 8 understand how the media can influence their perceptions about developing nations. 3 lessons are included.

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 tutorial examines how entertainment and news media represent diversity and the impact these media portrayals can have on the value we place on individuals and groups in society. There are several lesson plans about the media and cultural diversity to explore.

This classroom resource, based on the book Ready Player One and created by an educator, has discussion ideas, videos and interviews. The resource promotes critical literacy and the importance of understanding how ideas are constructed and shared.

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.

This page from the Media Literacy Now website has an explanation of media literacy with a short animated video. There is a second video that has high school students describing why media literacy is important to them.

This easy-to-read toolkit is designed to help readers understand their role in stopping the spread of misinformation. The toolkit comes from Evidence for Democracy and the Government of Canada.