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Some fascinating thoughts about media literacy in this era of fake news from one of my to go resources (danah boyd) for social media info for parents & teens. "Media literacy asks people to raise questions and be wary of information that they're receiving. People are. Unfortunately, that's exactly why we're talking past one another."

Excellent short videos on the Get Real web literacy strategy.

Check out the Get Real section. Great guide for teaching web literacy from Sara Wilkie's Balance Ed Tech wiki.

Solid article by Alan November "We are in a mission-critical state of losing our democracy unless we broaden our definition of what it means to be literate today. As with reading print, web and media literacy needs to be embedded across the curriculum and within the design of assignments across all grades and subjects. Students need practice, practice, practice."

Worth looking at the lessons for your particular grade level.

Take a look at the Make tab and also the Tools under the Explore tab. These activities might be great ways to incorporate coding and web literacy into your lessons.

This is the program my husband used to teach my 8th graders how to code their text for the app. My students loved it and can't wait to code! They code on one side of the screen and see the results on the other side. It gives them instant feedback to see if their code is correct or not.

Alan suggested this site for resources for teaching web literacy (searching on the internet)

Interesting read about the challenges of addressing media literacy in school & why it is so important. "Today's schools are focusing on boosting kids' technological proficiency and warning them about the perils of the web. But something critical is missing from this education. On the other end are the skeptics, among them the adults who fear that kids are being thrusted into a world of cyberbullies and pedophiles."

This recent study is why what you are doing in your classrooms to integrate web literacy is so critical: "young people's ability to reason about the information on the Internet can be summed up in one word: bleak"

This article opened my eyes to a new tech teaching technique - the "Flip Your Lessons" suggestion is a great approach to take in MS computer labs filled with kids of different tech/computer aptitudes.

Great article that explains why we should be teaching computational thinking and coding. 

Very helpful article written by Alan November.

What does a world filled with digital orphans, digital exiles and digital heirs mean to the future?