Information and digital literacy in education via the digital path

Our students write reports from information they find on the internet, not a library book. They need to understand this type of new information source and the network it comes from. 

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This is important for students because the idea of crowdsourcing will allow them to utilize personal learning networks to gain a diversity of opinions, find outside experts and use the wisdom of a network or crowd to find more thorough answers and ask better questions.

Bloom’s Taxonomy. It sounds very high brow – however, it’s not! Bloom is simply the name of the person who devised this idea and taxonomy simply means to categorise or classify So what is being cat...

Teaching Channel presents an episode dedicated to digital literacy. Covering safe online behavior, finding reliable online sources, digital footprints and more, these 8 lessons align with the Common Core.