Digital Citizenship and Media Literacy

Digital citizenship and media literacy are crucial skills and ideas for 21st century teaching and learning. Helping students work responsibly online and to discern media bias, research ethically, and interact in a meaningful digital world is an important part of teaching and learning in the twenty first century. These are edtech concepts that go far and behind educational technology. And these skills are crucial for elementary, middle, and high school students.
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5 Underrated Instructional Strategies for All Content Areas
As teachers, we all have our ride-or-die instructional strategies. However, some of the best strategies often get pushed aside in favor of bigger, better, brighter. Today, I want to focus on some underrated instructional strategies. These are effective, efficient, no-fuss, no-frills, and they work in every content area. These underrated strategies focus on visualization, writing, and listening skills.
Teach Your Students about the Fakeness of Social Media
With the ever growing world of social media, we are more exposed to each other’s lives than ever… or are we…? Social media is becoming an integral part of our world and most young people have some kind of social media account now, but are they equipped to handle the responsibility? This kind of topic is sadly not high priority on the curriculum but it is a huge part of students’ lives and plays a significant role in their well-being and confidence. @resourceforce
Media Literacy Education - EduLearn2Change
To support our students to become critical thinkers who can make smart choices in today’s message-saturated world, we need to develop their media literacy. Check out this post to learn about the meaning of media literacy, its skills, role and some strategies to use in the classroom to make students more media literate.#medialiteracy,#criticalthinking,#edulearn2changePin.
4 Engaging Artificial Intelligence Lessons for Middle Schoolers - A Growing Bundle | ELA Land TPT
Unlock the power of AI with this Artificial Intelligence AI Unit Bundle by ELA Land! These engaging activities are perfect for middle school students and will inspire the next generation of AI enthusiasts. Don't miss out on this exciting opportunity for growth and success. Buy now on Teachers Pay Teachers!
How to Incorporate Movement in High School Language Arts
Incorporating movement is an important part of developing engaging instruction. With meaningful, deliberate, and structured movement, students can benefit from spatial recall, collaboration, and development of their speaking and listening skills. Some of my favorite opportunities for meaningful motion in the classroom are essential to student engagement, to pairing movement with content, and to developing classroom community. With these strategies, teachers will have creative, fun lessons!
How to Build Students’ Media and News Literacy
These example lessons may spark some ideas for how you want to approach media and news literacy in your classroom lessons.| Cult of Pedagogy
The Best Sub Plans for Language Arts #mooreenglish
Over the years, I have developed a great system for leaving sub plans that are efficient and easy-to-follow. Today, I want to share with you my number one hack for getting sub plans done quickly and effectively! Furthermore, I have all the best ideas for sub plans, including opportunities for whole group learning, independent work, and partner work, so you can choose the sub plans that meet the needs of your students! Never feel crunched for sub plans again!
3 Alternatives to Traditional Syllabus Day / Moore English
The traditional syllabus is a staple in may high school classrooms. While the syllabus may seem outdated to some, it's a requirement at my school. For that reason, I try to make the syllabus as meaningful and useful as possible. In one page (no more), I include details about contacting me, the grading schedule, grading scale, late/absent/retake policies, and the course description. Many of these categories are requirements outlined by my administration.
15 Unexpected Supplies to Keep in Your Teacher Desk
As a teacher, you wear many different hats. You are confidante, mentor, facilitator, assessor, nurse, taskmaster, librarian, and everything in between. Sometimes you also feel like Mary Poppins. My co-workers are the same way; each teacher seems to have a magical drawer filled with everything a student could ever need. Today, I've gathered together 15 unexpected supplies to store in your classroom.
Using the TREE OCTOPUS to Teach Students to Evaluate Websites
When it's time to write a research paper and start finding information online, make sure your students know how to evaluate websites. Doing a quick mini lesson on the tree octopus will help your 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, or 6th grade classroom or home school students better understand to use caution with what they find, read, and learn online. Click through for an immediate lesson you can use right away.
Engaging & Fun Collaborative Technology Lesson: Dive into this Thrilling Activity!
Unearth the mysteries of technology with our captivating and interactive lesson! This engaging, fun resource sparks curiosity, fosters collaboration and demystifies tech concepts in a light-hearted way. Dive in, learn, interact, and have a blast! Perfect introducing what technology is and what is is NOT. Three part lesson with a low prep, delightful activity will be a hit in your classroom!
Why You Should Add Number Sense to ELA
I have been looking for opportunities to reach some of my math-minded students. More often than not, my students to excel at math tell me they find language arts frustrating because interpretation rarely has a finite answer. Well, I don't have a perfect way to make language arts number-based, but I have found some ways to bring number sense into the English language arts classroom. When I started looking for opportunities to incorporate number sense into ELA, my first thought was text features.
Quizzes as Opportunities for Collaborationa and Reflection
Quizzes as Opportunities for Collaborationa and Reflection