The importance of teaching how to spot fake stories

This NPR article titled "Students in Ukraine Learn to Spot Fake Stories, Propaganda and Hate Speech" emphasises the importance of taking time throughout the year to incorporate media literacy techniques into ALL classes. Please, take a minute to read the article then see your Library Media Specialist (Tammy Turner) and/or Digital Learning Coach (Penney Matos) for support in how to do this in your class!

Google's Free Online Digital Literacy Courses

Google offers a variety of FREE online courses over digital literacy topics. They seem to be more business focused right now but education can definitely benefit from these!
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Digital Citizenship and Documenting Learning

This article on Digital Citizenship and Documenting Learning explores the the relationship between literacy and documenting learning. HOW does documenting learning have an effects on awareness, skills and developing habits around the so called 21st century “Now” literacies.

Newsela for today's news

Little known start-up @Newsela is a great way to keep students (and adults) informed about today's news! Read more here. Visit Newsela here.