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Contact US Digital Literacy Today Our message: Thank you for visiting US Digital Literacy. Digital Literacy is important in education, the work force and generally for every internet user. While this site focuses on the educational side of Digital Li teracy, it also provides many resources in an all in one website to help you tap into the exponential amount of resources available via the internet.

While the word "literacy" alone generally refers to reading and writing skills, when you tack on the word "digital" before it, the term encompasses much, much more. Sure, reading and writing are still very much at the heart of digital literacy.

Teach your students vital information literacy skills with this website.

Head Start Guide to Successful Transitions to Kindergarten If you have any questions, direct them to Laura Smolkin [an error occurred while processing this directive]people have visited this page. Webbing into Literacy (WIL) is a downloadable program designed to provide rural Head Start teachers with materials and instruction that will launch America's young children on successful academic careers.

Make remote design work Online brainstorming, synthesis and collaboration. Here, I am using the platform in order to have students critically engage in an information/media literacy lesson aimed at evaluating the credibility/validity of independent and group research.

Living Online lab promoting digital and media literacy K-12 Reuben Loewy

"StudySync is a powerful digital literacy curriculum designed to advance reading, writing, critical thinking, speaking and listening skills, with optional print support for districts in transition"

Use the Wikipedia FAQ for Schools page as a resource to help teach digital literacy in your classroom! Students are going to use Wikipedia, so they need to be taught how and when it is or is not appropriate, starting in elementary school. Look, even Wikipedia warns against using Wikipedia in many instances! But it also points out what it can be good for, so explore both sides with students.

Go on a reading adventure with Reggie, the rhino who loves to rhyme. Reggoe helps children pick out words that sound alike, giving early readers an awareness of patterns in language.

Hall offers a detailed theoretical and semiotic analysis of the processes by which messages are encoded into media by the creators and decoded by the consumers. He provides a vocabulary for naming the different phases of message production and reception, and a theoretical framework for understanding how they operate. While this text might be considered too dense for many high school students, the ideas themselves are not, and a shared familiarity with these ideas creates a firm foundation on which to build future discussions of how media operates and how to discern even the most deeply coded messages and biases.

Engage your students in online literacy learning with these interactive tools that help them accomplish a variety of goals-from organizing their thoughts to learning about language-all while having fun.

The Internet Is Important To Everyone infographic explains why Americans are not using the internet or purchasing home internet service and offers actions our communities...

Free website containing kids news articles, kids current events, kids news on science, sports, and more! Great way to bring current events into the classroom and discuss credible sources. Contains comprehension questions, critical thinking challenges and vocabulary lists to push students to learn more about a topic.

A series of free lessons on Digital Citizenship. Reccomended for 4th-8th grade. Engaging videos for students that make the topics come to life.

Imagine a school where each subject, from mathematics to history, has a gaming component. That's the case at Quest to Learn (Q2L), a sixth- through 12th-grade school in New York City. The school opened in 2009, with an emphasis on integrating games into learning, such as a one-trimester gaming experience in which a scientist travels through the human body, a post on Edudemic reports.

I Keep Safe tracks global trends and issues as a professional non-profit organization. It was established in 2005 by policy leaders, educators, law enforcement, technology experts, public health experts and advocates. The research collects and generates positive resources for all who teach youths how to use new media devices and platforms which promotes safety and good health. Content from iKeepSafe maybe used by teachers or any advocate to communicate and promote digital citizenship and media literacy into local programs. Globally, iKeepSafe helps all countries implement digital citizen and lessons by informing public officials, community members and law enforcement to engage upon the universal codes of conduct.

Digital Passport is a great way to teach digital citizenship in 3rd through 6th-grade classrooms. It provides a foundation for appropriate and safe online behavior by offering fun and interactive lessons and meets Common Core and ISTE Nets Standards. Students can engage in videos, games, and quizzes about cyber-bullying, respect, digital literacy, and many other topics to promote digital citizenship. The site offers educator materials that can be utilized by simply registering for a login and password. Both students and teachers can access Digital Passport on computers, tablets, or phones in school and at home. The application can be accessed directly through the website or downloaded. One way to implement this tool in lessons is to allow students to have the opportunity to work on Chrome books or in a lab. Students can be assigned quizzes through the teacher dashboard. Once students get through the lessons, they earn badges and a "Certificate of Achievement," which allows for positive reinforcement. Teachers can monitor student progress during the activity and print reports to share with each student, their parents, and administrators. During lessons, students can be assigned to work individually on a device or as a class on a smart board, which allows for an exciting and innovative way to learn about digital citizenship.

With the materials on this site, you can help your students become skilled searchers- whether they're just starting out with search, or ready for more advanced training.

Inquiry-oriented lesson tool allowing students to analyze, synthesize, and evaluate different online resources.

Problems Worth Solving Discovery Education accelerates school districts' digital transition through comprehensive standards-based content, professional development, formative assessment, and community engagement proven to positively impact student achievement. A digital textbook series, built from scratch for today's learners and current standards, engages students with dynamic, multimodal content and an inquiry approach.