Digital Literacy Presentation

  • What is Dig Lit: Information Literacy – have conversations so the students are aware of these things:
      • What is fake and what is legit? Quality? Who is the author? Is it authentic? Who benefits? What is the bias? Is the information trying to change your opinion
      • Ethical use of digital resources
      • Understanding digital footprints – cookies, what are you leaving behind
      • Protecting yourself online – be careful how you are sharing your privacy, passwords, absolutely everything you upload is available, VPNs, hatching, have these ideas in your back pocket – teach self-regulation
      • Handling Digital Communication
      • Cyberbullying
  • Pros, cons, risks
    • Pros:
      • Quick feedback
      • promotes student participation
    • Cons
      • Not everyone has access, technology is unreliable, teacher is not experienced in technology
    • Risks
      • Cyberbullying
      • Stranger danger
      • Internet is forever – teach to have a healthy footprints
  • Teachers must be aware – strategies, tips and best practices
    • Navigating digital media series
    • Youtube: crash course navigating digital media sweries
      • Fact checking
      • Lateral reading – piece of info – read laterally across information – who is the author and who are they connected to, different than fact checking – who is writing this? Do they have bias?
      • Evaluating evidence
    • Youtube: crash course media literacy series
      • History, influence & persuasion, advertising, m edia ownership
    • MediaSmarts.ca
  • Strategies, tips and best practices
    • Student choice and voice
    • More creation than consumption
    • Include multimodalities
    • Center collaboration
    • Ensure accessibility for all learners – having access to computers – UD
    • Crowd- accelerated learning – bringing a ton of people together create and collaborate – eg. Citizen science projects – put data out there, and get other people to look at the information
    • Social media & peer-to-peer social learning – social media can be a source of learning, what you model in the class happens digitally as well-being
    • Core Competencies
  • how to talk to parents about digital literacy
    • Educate parents as they may not understand
    • Don’t assume understanding and awareness
      • families may or may not be aware of their children’s only use and footprint
    • Digital literacy is part of the BC new curriculum
    • Communication is key with parents
      • Idea: organizing a digital family night (classroom or school wide) eg. Minecraft
      • Having compassion for parents with their concerns
  • SEX ed is part of Education
    • Kids learning about sex online
    • Misconceptions, monsters, misunderstandings
    • Dick pics, masterbation, predators, porn; sugaring – getting bigger and bigger – young women selling their body for wealthy patrons
    • Educate inclusive sex ed
  • Resources:
    • FIPPA
    • Be Internet Awesome
    • House Hippos