A new digital literacy platform, TIME Edge offers nonfiction text for middle school digital literacy and English Language Arts lessons. This month, educators can try a free public preview of TIME Edge. Common Core-aligned content (text accompanied by audio and video) can be accessed on all browsers and devices.
"Snopes offers clickable links to the most common or most recent legends and a search engine for the rest. This site is fun to visit even if youve never been fooled by an e-mail scam -- and are sure you never will be. It can also be the start of a great Web literacy lesson for your students!"
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This article has a list of some amusing and ridiculous sites posing as legitimate sites. They can be used to help students evaluate content on the Internet.
Cyber Safety Thought Information Literacy Teaching cyber safety in school is a tremendous challenge. Try as we may, lecturing to students who know more about technology than the teacher is not going to make our children cyber safe. On top of that, adding additional curriculum to an already overburdened teacher's job is problematic at best.