Media Literacy

An esports club provides students with a sense of community and can foster digital citizenship skills. Here’s what you need to know to get started.

The popular model of self-guided learning can be used to engage upper elementary students in conducting and presenting research—and learning to use new technology.

With careful planning, teachers can use the election to foster social and emotional learning and connect math, literacy, and social studies lessons.

Ideas on how to guide students to the knowledge and experience they need to act responsibly online.

Vetting primary resources isn’t easy—but doing it well is crucial for fostering engagement and deeper learning in a rapidly changing world.

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.

A simple fill-in-the-blank exercise helped students understand the power of words and the way they might convey unspoken beliefs.

Use these strategies to help middle and high school students identify relevance, accuracy, bias, and reliability in the content they read.

A lesson plan for helping students as young as kindergarten begin to understand how to be safe online.

A group of elementary or middle school students are unruly, disrespectful, and underperforming academically and socially in the classroom. They do not appreciate the value of education. The teacher, despite good intentions and passion, is viewed as an adversarial or irrelevant authority figure. The students are unwilling to participate in tutoring or traditional mentoring programs. So what can be done?

Visual literacy explicitly teaches a collection of competencies that will help students think through, think about, and think with pictures.

Whether snacking on TED-Ed videos, reading with purpose, checking into a smile backchannel, or chuckling at hashtags and memes, you're never far from relief and inspiration.

Understanding how the online encyclopedia functions helps students learn how to conduct research and distinguish fact from fiction.

Social media can enhance differentiated instruction if the tools are selected with a careful eye on individual students' readiness, interests, and learning profiles.