Digital Literacy and Citizenship Classroom Curriculum
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Take the grounded approach to teaching a slippery subject
Common Sense Media offers this FREE Digital Literacy and Citizenship Curriculum to help educators empower their students and their school communities to be safe, responsible, and savvy as they navigate this fast-paced digital world.
- NO COST to your school. It's all free thanks to generous support from our philanthropic supporters.
- Research-based learning. We created the lessons with the support of leading researchers from around the country.
- Video-rich and real-world. Students engage quickly and stay plugged in because you're using kid-tested media resources to teach the new media.
- Total teaching flexibility. Integrate the modular lessons with any subject in any order. Online and print materials let you teach in any classroom and send lessons home to engage parents.
- Compliant and aligned. The curriculum helps you comply with E-Rate's education requirement, and it's aligned to ISTE, AALS, and ELA standards.
- Currently available for grades K-12.
E-rate and CIPA education package
Our new toolkit puts all of the resources you need to teach students about Internet safety, appropriate online behavior, and cyberbullying at your fingertips. In addition to lesson plans, activities, videos, and parent outreach materials, you'll find documents to track your process.
E-rate Toolkit for Administrators | E-rate Toolkit for Teachers
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Check out our blog post, which takes you through the digital citizenship teaching process. From researching the issues, to finding what type of curricula work best, this article gives you a great overview of where we are with teaching kids to be smart and safe online citizens.
Get some inspiration to teach Digital Literacy and Citizenship before the school year ends. The "Quick Tips for Teachers" videos on our professional development page are chock full of great ideas from Common Sense teachers.
We're excited to invite you to explore Digital Passport, a brand new online learning platform from Common Sense Media. It’s a web-based, interactive learning tool that teaches and tests the basics of digital life for kids in 3rd through 5th grade. Topics covered include cyberbullying, privacy, digital communication, creative credit, and search.
Digital Passport is open now for schools to use the beta version this spring. You’ll also find lots of supporting materials to expand the learning through collaborative classroom activities, and rich reporting to track student success.
