Professional Development Resources
Introducing Our Curriculum Training! Get trained on the K-12 Digital Literacy and Citizenship curriculum on your own time with our all-new tutorial! Select your grade level and topic area to customize the training to your needs. You'll walk away confident and inspired to implement the curriculum in your school. Check out the intro video to learn more about the training.
PLEASE NOTE: You need to be a registered educator with Common Sense Media to access this training. Please register or log in, then click the link above. You will automatically receive an email (at the email address you provided during registration) with a unique password you’ll need to access the training site.
NEW! Common Sense on the Common Core Videos
Common Sense Media partnered with Teaching Channel to produce this series of nine videos spotlighting how our lessons meet critical ELA Common Core standards for middle school. Check them out for inspiration from teachers and students in New York City and San Francisco Bay Area public schools. See how our lessons align and view the standards on the Common Core State Standards website. |
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Creating a Snapshot of Digital Media Use
Students log and create a chart of their media use, learning how to present data visually to enhance understanding.
Key Standards: ELA.SL.6-8.2,
ELA.SL.6-8.5
Teach it: My Media »
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Using Critical Thinking to Find Trustworthy Websites
Students learn to assess the trustworthiness of informational websites, providing reasoning and evidence for their analysis.
Key Standard: ELA.W.6-8.8
Teach it: Identifying High-Quality Sites »
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Understanding "Fair Use" in a Digital World
Students judge whether or not video remixes fall under fair use, evaluating visual content and presenting supporting evidence.
Key Standard: ELA.SL.6-8.1c
Teach it: Rework, Reuse, Remix »
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Cyberbullying: What’s Crossing the Line?
Students analyze case studies to determine if cyberbullying is taking place, evaluating speaker point of view and presenting information orally.
Key Standards: ELA.SL.6-8.1c, ELA.SL.6-8.2
Teach it: Cyberbullying: Crossing the Line »
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Improving Research Skills with Effective Keywords
Students learn how different keywords produce different search results online, and practice selecting effective search keywords.
Key Standards: ELA.W.6.7, ELA.W.6.8
Teach it: The Key to Keywords »
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Online Talk: What’s Safe and What’s Risky?
Students assess the riskiness of different scenarios about communicating with strangers online, making inferences from the text and elaborating in the discussion.
Key Standard: ELA.SL.6-8.1c
Teach it: Safe Online Talk »
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Exploring the Concept of Online Privacy
Students learn about online privacy by analyzing a website privacy policy, reflecting on how companies can use their private info.
Key Standards: ELA.RI.6.1, ELA.RI.6.4
Teach it: Whats the Big Deal About Internet Privacy? »
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Understanding the Impact of Digital Footprints
Students analyze social networking profiles, citing textual evidence for a debate about the pros and cons of having a digital footprint.
Key Standard: ELA.RI.6-8.1
Teach it: Trillion Dollar Footprint »
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The Good and Bad of Using Different Online Personas
Students read case studies to make inferences about whether playing with identity online is harmful or harmless, analyzing how characters interact in a text and drawing conclusions.
Key Standards: ELA.SL.6-8.1d, ELA.SL.6-8.4
Teach it: Which Me Should I Be? »
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These videos were co-produced by Common Sense Media and Teaching Channel and supported in part by Trend Micro.
A nonprofit organization, Teaching Channel engages teachers across the country to reinvent and revolutionize professional learning through video content and online innovation. |
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Webinars - Live and Archived!
Join one of our upcoming webinars or watch archived presentations. Upcoming topics include digital citizenship and young children and media.
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In-Person Trainings
We've teamed up with Computer- Using Educators (CUE) to offer in-person professional development with CUE's top trainers in the country.
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Join the Community
Check out case studies from exemplary teachers across the country and share your inspirational and effective digital literacy and citizenship teaching experiences with other members of our educator community.
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Parent Education
This tutorial introduces our parent media education program and provides tips for engaging and educating parents on the key issues their children face with media. Watch the tutorial »
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