Media and Technology Resources for Educators
Classroom Curriculum
Take control of the fastest-changing subject ever. Our curriculum is rigorous, relevant, and ready-to-use.
Parent Education Program
Click with parents like never before. Our resources help you engage and educate grateful parents, too.
Professional Development
Teach this slippery subject with complete confidence. Our online trainings show you how.
Research Credentials
Check out our DNA. Our programs are built on respected digital ethics research.
Turn wired students into great digital citizens
Get all the tools you need with our FREE Digital Literacy and Citizenship Curriculum and Parent Media Education Program. The relevant, ready-to-use instruction helps you guide students to make safe, smart, and ethical decisions in the digital world where they live, study and play.
Every day, your students are tested with each post, search, chat, text message, file download, and profile update. Will they connect with like minds or spill TMI to the wrong people? Will they behave creatively or borrow ideas recklessly? Will they do the right thing or take shortcuts?
As an educator, you can equip your students with the 21st century skills they need to thrive and survive in their wild digital world. You can also educate and empower their parents to address these issues at home. Our programs let you take on the issues of the moment – from cyberbullying to online privacy, copyright to community building – using tools that fit instruction into crowded school days, all at no cost and with no time-consuming training requirements.
Take a look around and let us know if you have any questions about finding just the right materials for your school.
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Educator Updates
Exciting news! We've partnered with Computer-Using Educators (CUE) to expand our professional development program on digital literacy and citizenship. CUE, a California-based non-profit that provides leadership and support to advance student achievement in the educational technology community, will power Common Sense Media’s training for teachers and educators through CUEtoYOU, a professional development program whose dynamic “lead learners” in K-12 and higher education hold workshops and in-person trainings for educators around issues of digital media technologies.
Common Sense's new toolkit is a one-stop shop for everything you need to teach your kids to be upstanders, not bystanders. In this kit you'll find our best classroom activities for each grade level, brand new parent engagement resources, and list of other great cyberbullying resources from organizations we respect.
Common Sense Media announced plans to create a Digital Passport, an interactive online game that will teach kids the basics of how to be safe and responsible in a digital world.
