Digital & Media Literacy

Netsmartz: Internet Safety Resources for Students & Parents

Tip Sheets

Internet Safety Presentations

Digital Citizenship Curriculum

Link to Common Sense MEDIA BALANCE & WELL BEING Lessons

Link to Common Sense PRIVACY & SECURITY Lessons

Link to Common Sense DIGITAL FOOTPRINT & IDENTITY Lessons

Link to Common Sense RELATIONSHIPS & COMMUNICATION Lessons

Link to Common Sense CYBERBULLYING, DIGITAL DRAMA & HATE SPEECH Lessons

Link to Common Sense NEWS & MEDIA LITERACY Lessons

Hone Your Media Literacy Skills

This series of TED-Ed videos will help you to hone your media literacy skills by teaching you how to evaluate the information you read both on and off–line. Learn how access quality news reporting and spot clickbait, problem headlines, and misleading statistics & graphs. Playlist: 6 videos

Navigating Digital Information

Crash Course has partnered with MediaWise, The Poynter Institute, and The Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) to develop this curriculum of hands-on skills to help you evaluate the information you read online. Broken into four topics, this playlist includes 10 videos.

The Curly Fry Conundrum

"Much can be done with online data. But did you know that computer wonks once determined that liking a Facebook page about curly fries means you're also intelligent? Really. Computer scientist Jennifer Golbeck explains how this came about, how some applications of the technology are not so benign — and why she thinks we should return the control of information to its rightful owners."