The Digital Citizenship Curriculum provides lesson plans and short videos for various age groups in schools that look at news and media literacy. These resources were developed by Common Sense Education who are based in the US. They address critical issues facing children in a fast-changing world of media and technology. Please click on the
The Civic Online Reasoning research-based curriculum was developed by the Stanford History Education Group. It offers lessons and assessments to help students evaluate online information that affects them, their communities, and the world. Please click on the link below to access the content: https://cor.stanford.edu/curriculum/
Checkology is a free e-learning platform with lessons on media literacy through which learners develop the ability to identify credible information, seek out reliable sources and apply critical thinking skills to separate fact-based content from falsehoods. Predominantly for secondary, some for primary aged students. Please click on the link below to access the content:
Cyber Academy is an internet safety resource for parents and teachers developed by Trend Micro that covers topics related to digital, information and media literacy. Each episode consists of a short animated video, a conversation guide to support parents / teachers, a quiz and activity sheet to reinforce learning and takes about 15 min to complete.
This is an Educational Toolkit for Social Media Literacy developed by an Erasmus+ project with institutions from Romania, Belgium, Italy and Portugal to encourage teachers to use and teach social media literacy in the classroom. 9 modules with activity plans, learning outcomes, training material, resources, learning take aways, infographics. Please click on the link below
Very Verified is an online course on Media Literacy that aims to help people evaluate the information flows in their daily lives and equip them with skills to critically navigate the digital world. This course is divided into 5 modules and can be taken as a short (up to 5min), medium (up to 15min) or
This educational resource explores key learning and issues raised in the documentary Cloud Control – Who Owns Your Data. It is designed to support teaching and learning in Digital Media Literacy, CSPE and SPHE, and may be used to provide the wellbeing programme in post-primary schools. Please click on the link below to access the resource:
MyDigiSkills is a quiz that helps people to better understand their level of digital skills based on knowledge, skills and attitude in each of the five areas of the European Digital Competence Framework for Citizens, known as DigComp. It takes around 20 minutes to complete, and people get a report on their levels of digital skills at