Teaching Digital Literacy

 

 

Here find some great resources for teaching digital literacy

 http://www.teachhub.com/technology-classroom-what-digital-literacy:  this reliable website shows you all the steps you need to be able to teach, find and apply digital literacy in your classroom.

 

https://www.commonsense.org/education/:  Common Sense Media is already used in many school districts. They have ready-to-use material and many tutorials that will help you teach properly this subject.

 

https://digitalliteracy.gov/resource/email-scams:  the US Department of Commerce had put together a series of fun games dedicated to younger audiences.  They are secure and worth trying.

 

  http://www.plagiarismchecker.com/help-teachers.php To help higher grades teachers to quickly find out if their students copied-paste their documents from outside sources.

 

 https://www.diigo.com/list/abubnic/digital-citizenship_literacy-assessment:  DiiGo offers you: assessments, plans and a blog to communicate with other teachers. It is worth investigating.

 

 

  https://er.educause.edu/articles/2016/3/from-written-to-digital-the-new-literacy  Discussion, points of views and very good information to use with your curriculum.

 

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