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"Digital and Media Literacy: A Plan of Action, a new policy paper by Renee Hobbs, Professor at the School of Communications and the College of Education at Temple University and founder of its Media Education Lab, proposes a detailed plan that positions digital and media literacy as an essential life skill and outlines steps that policymakers, educators, and community advocates can take to help Americans thrive in the digital age."

"Like reading, writing, and arithmetic, web literacy is both content and activity. You don't just learn "about" reading: you learn to read. You don't just learn "about" arithmetic: you learn to count and calculate. You don't just learn "about" the web: you learn to make your own website. As with these other three literacies, web literacy begins simply, with basics you can build upon. For some it can lead to a profession (i.e. becoming a computer programmer) while for most it becomes part of the conceptual DNA that helps you to understand and negotiate the world you live in."

Not specific to social studies but an important article about the importance of web and digital literacies.

Teaching digital literacy using Wikipedia and the death of Osama Bin Laden

Mike Eisenberg, Dean Emeritus and Professor at the University of Washington iSchool, shares a growing series of video conversations in partnership with ABC-CLIO. The first four are on information literacy and you can view them below or on YouTube.

Great vodcasts on info lit.

"Schools continue to deliver new graduates into the workplace lacking the tech-based "soft skills" that businesses demand. Experts blame K-12's persistent failure to integrate technology."

Much to think about in this article. Much emphasis on information literacy and digital literacy

"Storify provides endless possibilities for combining media to tell more comprehensive narratives that include multiple perspectives. And while the tool has largely received attention for its journalistic uses, it's not a big leap to see how Storify might be used in classrooms for research and presentations. It's also a valuable tool for teaching media literacy and digital skills, including collaboration."

Great options for classroom use

Website for digital, information, and citizenship litereracies

interesting article on web literacy.

Interesting article. Agree or disagree shows importance of verifying information.

post about teaching students about media literacy.

Some good ideas here.

Writing Beyond Expectations

Scott I see diigo as one way of achieving this. It gets students to reflect on what others have written and they can respond to others. But there are other tools to do this as well. The conversations going on in Jen's AP class are amazing. Almost 150 conversations to date!

"an interactive site that has students analyze a historical photo and make conclusions about the photo.Their job is to figure out what is going on in the photo"

Very interesting site to learn about history and digital literacy

From the museum of moving image- presidential campaign commercials 1952-2008

This is a free online resource from the Museum of the Moving Image, with more than 300 commercials, from every presidential election since 1952 It includes lessons for teachers and links to other online resources.

Great site for teaching about the election process but about media and digital literacy as well.

"This wiki collects information about tools and resources that can help scholars (particularly in the humanities and social sciences) conduct research more efficiently or creatively. Whether you need software to help you manage citations, author a multimedia work, or analyze texts, Digital Research Tools will help you find what you're looking for."

Great list of resources

Great post by Debbie Abilock on evaluating sources and why it is so important

great way to analyze primary sources from UC Irvine

Very good easy to follow post on how to make your searches less personalized in order to break out of the info bubble!

Everyone needs to be aware of this issue. Using different search engines, databases, etc. also helps. Comparing and sharing sources also helps.

RT @ktenkely: How Tru could be huge for education- building credibility on web, digital footprints "Revealing the veracity of information through credibility HowTru enables you to share your knowledge and expertise with the crowd, working together to measure the accuracy of news, blogs and more."

New site- the wikipedia of website veracity. Could have lots of use in a class

From Richard Byrne at Free Technology for Teachers: "allows you to create a short video about the searches that you perform on Google. To create your video you enter your search terms, select some background music, and let the creator render a video for you."

So many exciting possibilities. Has many applications to DISCOVER search process