In this six-minute video, you’ll get specific classroom-ready activities you can use to help students understand the fake news phenomenon, including truth or fiction bell ringers.
This bite also contains insights about how kids search for information today and emphasizes the dangers of consuming content without fully understanding the source and its context.
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The posts below from the ISTE Blog will help you grasp the “do’s” of digital citizenship -- actions that help create thoughtful, empathetic digital citizens who engage in civil discourse, connect with others to improve society, and critically evaluate information shared over digital channels as they wrestle with the important ethical questions at the intersection of technology and humanity.
We need to teach students to be vigilant about verifying information before posting it on social media. A good fact-checking site uses neutral wording, provides unbiased sources to support its claims and reliable links.
While many schools address digital citizenship through the occasional school assembly or one-off lesson plan, administrators at Rowan-Salisbury School District knew they needed to go bigger. They paid 25 teachers from around the district to develop a comprehensive K-12 digital citizenship curriculum. > READ MORE
Educator and author Kristen Mattson, Ph.D., has a bone to pick with a lot of the digital citizenship curricula. Too much of it, she says, focuses on what not to do, and it rarely addresses the opportunities and responsibilities of the digital world. Being a citizen of a community means interacting with each other, supporting one another and working together to make our corner of the world a better place. > READ MORE