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Lessons that Build Students’ Media and News Literacy

…to study this course myself!) Abigail Be-Meherit Dejene Hello! I am currently a graduate student completing my master’s in education with a secondary social studies teaching certificate. This is an incredibly timely topic! I love how you acknowledge that our students have access to endless resources and information with just a few clicks, a tool that wouldn’t be available even thirty years ago. Both teachers and students frequently use information found online to frame their understanding of any particular topic. However, more and more people are also creating content for consumption online, particularly on social media. I agree that it…

Episode 99: Six Strategies to Quality-Check Your Tech

…know, the assumptions or language. Yeah, so I really do feel like, maybe some of these, I think there’s a few different online programs, or online websites that kind of rate apps and things. Maybe they need to add like a “is the research valid?” GONZALEZ: Yes, Common Sense Media does, they might be able to add that piece. GUPTA: Common Sense, yeah, oh. GONZALEZ: Okay. I’ll get on the phone. GUPTA: We should totally drop them a line. Honestly. GONZALEZ: Yes. GUPTA: Because I do think if there’s like a place where you could trust a source of like,…

Are You a Curator or a Dumper?

…principles to those items. I wrote about this in a guest post for Laura Candler’s Teaching Resources (formerly, Corkboard Connections) a few years ago: Why No One Reads Your Classroom Newsletter. School or Teacher Websites: It seems that one company designed the basic template for all school and district websites around maybe 2004, and since then, far too many schools have never strayed from that. I’m not going to point fingers at any one school, but I think you know what I mean: The menu has hundreds of items, the page is broken up into dozens of little squares of…