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"EDUCATOR TOOLKIT News & Media Literacy In today's 24/7 digital world, we have instant access to all kinds of information online. Educators need strategies to equip students with the core skills they need to think critically about today's media. We teach foundational skills in news and media literacy through our Digital Citizenship program, specifically through our Creative Credit & Copyright and Information Literacy topics. Built on more than 10 years of expertise and classroom testing, these lessons and related teaching materials give students the essential skills to be smart, savvy media consumers and creators. From lesson plans about fact-checking to clickbait headlines and fake news, we've covered everything. To learn more about our approach, read the Topic Backgrounder on news and media literacy."

A Google Search Education site with literacy lessons. "On this page, you'll find Search Literacy lessons and A Google A Day classroom challenges. Our search literacy lessons help you meet the new Common Core State Standards and are broken down based on level of expertise in search: Beginner, Intermediate, or Advanced. "A Google A Day challenges help your students put their search skills to the test, and to get your classroom engaged and excited about using technology to discover the world around them. "

"An Open Resource on Digital Literacy for Educators, Teachers and Schools" This site has links to ways to practice digital literacy, teacher, example of practice, etc.

"Students will practice syllabification, reading, storytelling, and vocabulary when playing these games! This product contains directions and material for four different types of games to use during literacy centers: clapping out the syllables, vocabulary battle game, vocabulary flashcards, and storytelling. The games focus on the daily five activities pertaining to word work and writing. Each game would last 30 minutes."

"Students will practice syllabification, reading, storytelling, and vocabulary when playing these games! This product contains directions and material for four different types of games to use during literacy centers: clapping out the syllables, vocabulary battle game, vocabulary flashcards, and storytelling. The games focus on the daily five activities pertaining to word work and writing. Each game would last 30 minutes."

"This screencast was created to present four ideas for how teachers and students can use Evernote during the K-5 literacy block." Good ideas for using this useful app.

"This summer, PBS LearningMedia turns the spotlight on our spectacular collection of resources supporting literacy skills development in grades PreK-12. Educators are invited to visit our new summer literacy collection with featured resources from Martha Speaks, Poetry Everywhere, and The Electric Company! " Learning Media offers access to tens of thousands of classroom-ready digital resources -- video, games, photos, lesson plans, etc. All free. For K-12 students, though not specifically for ELLs.

"One of the most important information literacy skills for students is learning how to critically evaluate information found on the Web. This page includes forms for teaching the process, articles for learning about the aspect of literacy, and a list of bogus sites to use to showcase that all things on the Web are not real."

Excellent lesson plan suggestions for this important item in education. Collaborative, creative, connective, communicative. Includes film, print, and online media.

Offers 4 different tools than can help you and students with video and Web work: Scrible to annotate electronic texts lets students work collaboratively and teachers can use annotations for formative assessment and comments; VideoAnt lets you use video as texts to timestamp video for access later, type up notes in a sidebar, and share annotations; Kaizena Shortcut is a Google extension that allows detailed feedback, and can also be used for recordings; EDPuzzle lets teachers create lessons for instructional videos like Khan Academy and give feedback on students progress. These all sound worth a try.

For adult learners, mainly in the U.S., but also of generally wide application. These teacher training videos use the Whole-Part-Whole approach to teaching literacy.

Neat idea, though not free. Post-its saved into Evernote may be a help for some teachers. The process described here is one-on-one.

A nice collection of apps for iPads for younger learners. Includes writing, telephony, geography, maths, and literacy.

Learn about adult literacy education here, including English language learning, numeracy, and adult basic and secondary education.

The Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal is a peer-reviewed professional journal with an editorial board of scholars in the fields of second language acquisition and applied linguistics. The journal seeks to disseminate research to educators around the world. It is interested in exploring issues related to L2 reading, L2 literacy in a broader sense, and other issues related to second language learning and teaching.

Many suggestions for writing topics, applicable to both middle school and higher. Getting ESL/EFL children to understand the pleasures of self-expression and self-definition can be an imortant motivating factor in learning a new language.

Photos can stimulate emotions, memories, and discussion. I've used photos, either cut from magazines or the local newspaper, or taken by students themselves, to teach reading and writing both overseas and with middle school students in the US. This blog article has some nice times for using photos to learn language, motivate students, and encourage reading and writing. See the companion article for online photos to inspire.

"Our research showed that lots of great tools being are used across the world in school libraries. Instead of reinventing the wheel, we decided to take some of those ideas and focus on the tools that we thought could have the biggest impact. Take a look at Facebook groups such as The School Librarian's Workshop, Future Ready Librarian and Int'l School Library Connection. All are closed groups, but can be joined on request and are full of school library staff willing to share advice and support. There is also a lot of information shared on Twitter, so if you have not headed there yet it is time to go and do some lurking. "We chose to focus on four online tools: Google Hangouts/Skype, Padlet, Flipgrid and BreakoutEdu. Although we are still using the physical Breakout boxes, we have the opportunity to move to the digital version if we need to."

"Research supports the focus on text complexity and vocabulary. "The Baseball Study" by Recht and Leslie (1988) began by identifying the correlation between reading comprehension and student knowledge. Recht and Leslie discovered that students with low reading ability but high knowledge of baseball, outscored students with high reading ability but low knowledge of baseball on tests of comprehension. Landauer and Dumais (1997) took it a step further, finding that students acquire vocabulary up to four times faster when they read a series of related texts. Combined, these studies indicate the immense possibilities when we equip our students with the necessary vocabulary, providing them with sufficient prior knowledge before tackling reading tasks." This blog entry explores 5 terrific tools to help students, including one that makes texts simpler to help lower-level readers.

Explains how innocuous-looking agreements to accept cookies lead to the revelatiion and storing of personal data. We are asking our students to use platforms that build a profile and ad-track them -- without their really being aware or giving informed consent. What is the solution?

This is "another great resource on critical thinking skills created by Microsoft and luckily provided for free..I have had a look at it some days ago and guess what? You will definitely love it. It talks about literacy in the digital age and features some great critical and web search skills students need to have.The guide is just 37 pages but is definitely worth reading. If you feel like you can't read it now then download it and read at your own leisure." The downloadable pdf file has good ideas.