Digital Literacy

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.

This research provides a 2017 update to the first Common Sense Media report. The researchers surveyed parents of children ages 0 to 8 in the U.S. "The 2017 Zero to Eight study gives us a clearer view of how young children's media use has evolved over time and provides a foundation for how we can use...

The Digital Civics Toolkit is a collection of resources for educators to support youth to explore, recognize, and take seriously the civic potentials of digital life.

This infographic, from Common Sense Media, is a visual depiction of the research from 2020, looking at how young children's media use has evolved over time.

This 2015 discussion paper from MediaSmarts "draws on policy and curriculum documents from across the country to synthesize key concepts and best practices in current digital literacy education."

This detailed infographic, created by Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano, offers a distinction between social media in schools and social media for schools. There are also some suggested social media tools.

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.