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Digital and Media Literacy: A Plan of Action A White Paper on the Digital and Media Literacy Recommendations of the Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy written by Renee Hobbs

I think we are ahead of the game on this in some regards and a good reason why we should change the name of the 6th grade class to digital literacy versus tech. Not sure if media literacy is too grand as that would include other media that they are bombarded with everyday, but it is a though

Lusanne Laptop workshop presentation from PjWoessner @ Mary Institute Country Day in St. Louis Great stuff on passion-based learning and a number of tools for inventory to learning style and a digital literacy curriculum. I admire a lot of the things this guy does.

Heard about this o@ webinar. Lots of sources for media literacy unit. Media Literace is one of the 21st century skills we should be working on.

Great Canadian site that has lessons and videos for web awareness as well as media literacy. good stuff

great idea to commerate the 50th anniversary of the book

Great source from R.Byrne created by government for all aspects of digital literacy in the academic world,work world and personal. I like that it also included Mobile/wireless.

This is a great idea. using dove beauty shorts as prompts. could probably also do with youtube and vimeos. Love this. Could be a good way to incorporate media literacy as well.

great animated summary of some of the key points of Dan Pink's Drive

An interesting article about what i would refer to as the demise of geography study in grades k-8. It is called Social sciences for a reason, but people seem to think it is just about the when and not so much the where, why and how.

Interesting article and idewas that seem to keep reappearin in a number of places by a number of people.