Lessons

This lesson focuses on what it means to produce digital content and share information using online platforms.

Students will discuss basic guidelines for maintaining privacy and security online. To help them internalize these rules, students will illustrate what it would mean to follow each guideline.

This lesson aims to help students learn to safely and respectfully participate in different kinds of digital communities.

By learning about search algorithms, students will start to understand that the information they get from searching online does not simply materialize out of thin air! This understanding will enable students to critically evaluate search results.

This lesson, part of the Digital Literacy series, focuses on teaching students to identify how writers can reveal their biases through their word choice and tone. Students will identify “charged” words that communicate a point of view. Students will understand how writers communicate a point of view implicitly by writing their own charged news stories.

This lesson, part of the Digital Literacy series, addresses the importance of locating and verifying reliable sources when working with online information.

This lesson, part of the Digital Literacy series, addresses the importance of locating and verifying reliable sources when working with online information. This lesson is aimed at a young audience and operates on the assumption that many students in the class are not yet reading and writing independently.

This accompanies the lesson Conflict Resolution and Peace.