Media Literacy
Find and share resources to help students learn to analyze, evaluate, and communicate in a world with countless media sources and constant access to powerful computers.
Enriching Science Curricula With Ads
Teachers can use advertisements in a variety of media to help students cement their science knowledge and develop media literacy skills.215Teaching Students to Evaluate Websites
A few pointers on how to guide middle and high school students to determine whether a website offers accurate information.716What Your Students Really Need to Know About Digital Citizenship
Ideas on how to guide students to the knowledge and experience they need to act responsibly online.11.8kA Teacher’s Guide to Copyright and Fair Use
There are rules when it comes to using copyrighted material in the classroom—and easy ways to make sure you’re always in the clear.2.9k5 Reasons to Actually Encourage Students to Use Wikipedia
Despite its drawbacks, the online encyclopedia has value, particularly for those just getting started with research.1.2k
7 Apps for Teaching Children Coding Skills
If you're concerned that a) elementary school students don't have the ability to code, b) there's no room in the curriculum, and c) you don't possess coding chops to teach programming skills, throw out those worries. Explore these free, or almost free, tools, sites and apps that require no coding background or expertise.15.7kPreparing Social Studies Students to Think Critically in the Modern World
Vetting primary resources isn’t easy—but doing it well is crucial for fostering engagement and deeper learning in a rapidly changing world.4.3kTeaching Adolescents How to Evaluate the Quality of Online Information
Use these strategies to help middle and high school students identify relevance, accuracy, bias, and reliability in the content they read.7.5k5 Apps for Making Movies on Mobile Devices
Every year at Hollywood award shows, we see fantastic movies celebrated for their rich storytelling and dynamic performances. Your students can become moviemakers, too, thanks to some powerful apps for mobile devices. With these tools, your children can take videos and edit their work to make professional quality movies using iOS devices (iPads and iPhones) and Android tablets.6.4kAn Engaging Word Game Helps Students Grasp Implicit Bias
A simple fill-in-the-blank exercise helped students understand the power of words and the way they might convey unspoken beliefs.3.8kHow to Teach Internet Safety to Younger Elementary Students
A lesson plan for helping students as young as kindergarten begin to understand how to be safe online.5.3kCommon Core in Action: 10 Visual Literacy Strategies
Visual literacy explicitly teaches a collection of competencies that will help students think through, think about, and think with pictures.8.9k3 Tips for Managing Phone Use in Class
Setting cell phone expectations early is key to accessing the learning potential of these devices and minimizing the distraction factor.4.9k4 Strategies for Teaching Media Literacy
Teachers can support students in developing skills that allow them to effectively evaluate content from a variety of media sources.671Using the Election as a Teaching Tool
With careful planning, teachers can use the election to foster social and emotional learning and connect math, literacy, and social studies lessons.970
