Bridget Harvey
Here is a list of some great resources for teaching media literacy and digital citizenship to students in middle and high school.
If you are looking for lessons and activities to teach media literacy, start here! This site links to five of the best resources/lessons on the Web.
This site is geared more toward parents who wish to teach there children how to spot fake news and to evaluate resources.
Wonderful resources for school librarians struggling with how to approach teaching the difficult topic of media literacy to both students and faculty in a politically charged environment. The author offers practical suggestions for tackling the topic .
The author of this article makes a convincing case for the need to teach middle and high school students to "identify relevance, accuracy, bias, and reliability in the content they read." With links to a planning guide to plan your lesson and an online inquiry tool that helps students to identify evidence in their reading to help support or refute a claim, this article will make it easy to incorporate a media literacy lesson into your subject content teaching.
Helping students to evaluate sources and determine truth is the goal of teaching media literacy. This site includes of tools, videos, a link to a TedEd lesson plan, questions, activities and case studies to help teachers accomplish that goal.
This site has easy to edit Microsoft Word documents that can be used as templates to identify lesson objectives, and outline lessons. Included are sample lessons which make integrating these materials into your lessons simple. Be sure to look for the incredible examples of lessons created by teachers around the US. Geared toward middle school students, but could be easily adapted for high school.
The News Literacy Project's mission is "to give students the skills they need to discern fact from fiction and to know what to trust." This website gives teachers ideas for accomplishing that goal.
This is a great lesson to incorporate at the beginning of a unit on media literacy. You select two articles, one news and one opinion and have students try to identify which one is which. This can be a great springboard for discussion.
This is a fantastic resource for many article links to Media Literacy Resources. It also offers two curriculum sets with links to PowerPoints and lessons for teaching media literacy
Digital Citizenship Lesson: This site is best suited for middle school age children and allows them to play different choose-your -own -adventure type game scenarios to teach students how their choices in the digital world can affect their futures.
