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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."

Here are a few tips for creating your social media profile. Simple, but effective.

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.

Great list of websites for media sharing, digital storytelling, managing/organizing, social networking, content resources, and curriculum collaboration.

Great chart of search modifiers to teach students.

This is a MUST listen to episode of TED Radio Hour about the impact of social media on us and how few of people are actually part of creating it: "We're swimming in this digital environment that is created and hand-crafted by a handful of companies with deliberate goals to capture human attention. Now you have 2 billion people, 25% of population and 90% of GDP, whose thoughts are shaped by this handful of 20 to 40 year old mostly engineers and designers in CA. … This problem is underneath all other problems." Tristan Harris

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."

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

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