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Skill 2: Internet Safety

greeange — 2016-01-22 00:14:58 UTC

Students must learn to use personal and private information appropriately, understand the negative effects of cyberbullying, harassment, and threats. They also must learn strategies that help them to remain safe in an online environment. Students need to be aware of inappropriate content such as malware, phishing, viruses and more.

Skill 1: Evaluating Information

greeange — 2016-01-22 00:16:46 UTC

It is important, in my opinion for students to be able to understand the differences between credible information and those that are not. They need to be able to identify fact vs. fiction vs. opinion. Students also need to learn how to synthesize information from multiple resources to create and/or produce new digital media or content.

Skill 3: Creating/Producing Digital Media and Content

greeange — 2016-01-22 00:17:04 UTC

Students must learn to create and produce digital media and content. By doing so, they will develop critical thinking skills, problem solving skills and decision making skills. They are then eager to share their creation with others.

Digital and Media Literacy Skills and Resources for Middle School Students

greeange — 2016-01-22 00:34:59 UTC

Even though I currently do not work in a school library setting, the last three years I taught a class of 8th graders. These students visited me in my classroom every other day. I had no direction from the administration, she just said these kids will come to you every other day for nine weeks, then you'll get a new class; teach them what you think is important. So, I relied heavily upon a resource that I helped to create, I-SAIL. I-SAIL is an acronym for Illinois Standards Aligned Instruction for Libraries and is currently the statewide model library curricular framework. You can find the complete document broken up by age group on the www.islma.org website. I-SAIL provided me with benchmarks to target with my students and linked those benchmarks to the Common Core ELA, Social Studies, and Science Standards; the AASL Standards for the 21st Century Learner; and ISTE's NETs Standards for Students. I-SAIL is showcased in resources under each of my top skills taught.

Skill 1: Resources

greeange — 2016-01-22 00:51:14 UTC

Kathy Schrock's Guide to Everything includes a critical guide to evaluating all types of information

I-SAIL standards are appropriate for all three skills listed here!

greeange — 2016-01-22 00:54:15 UTC

This is the link to the benchmarks and standards from I-SAIL for 8th Grade Students

Skill 1: Curriculum Standards Part II

greeange — 2016-01-22 00:54:49 UTC

Below is the link to the P21 Partnership for 21st Century Learning Standards for Media Literacy

Skill 1: Resources Part II

greeange — 2016-01-22 01:06:22 UTC

Eduscapes compiled website evaluation tools

Skill 2: Curriculum Standards

greeange — 2016-01-22 01:19:27 UTC

ISTE's Technology Standards for Students

Skill 2: Resources Part II

greeange — 2016-01-22 01:23:39 UTC

Common Sense Media has a curriculum designed for teaching digital citizenship.

Skill 2: Resources

greeange — 2016-01-22 01:25:36 UTC

If you have never heard of Richard Byrne, you must check out his resources Free Technology for Teachers. Here is the link to his blog and many resources including lesson plans for teaching digital citizenship to middle school students.

Skill 3: Resources Part III

greeange — 2016-01-22 01:31:37 UTC

Learning Through Digital Media is a curated website with multiple articles, essays and resources

Skill 3: Curriculum Standards

greeange — 2016-01-22 01:36:46 UTC

This resource was our required reading, especially pages 8-15 "What People Need to Learn". This relates directly to Skill 3.

Skill 3: Resources

greeange — 2016-01-22 01:37:01 UTC

How Digital Learning Contributes to Deeper Learning - This resource doesn't give specific lesson plans on how to teach these skills, however provides the evidence of the importance of teaching them.

Skill 2: Resources Part III

greeange — 2016-01-22 01:45:54 UTC

Here is a web resource, NetSmartz that provides videos and other materials for students as they learn about internet safety.

Skill 3: Resources Part II

greeange — 2016-01-22 01:52:20 UTC

This resource is called Blendspace. I have never used it before, as I just discovered it today. The creators promote it as personalized learning with free interactive lessons.

Skill 4: Understanding Copyright, Fair Use and Giving Creators Credit

greeange — 2016-01-22 03:56:50 UTC

I would first and foremost like to thank Melinda Parrent for selecting this skill, when I had forgotten about it. I'm adding it as an afterthought, so I do not forget it later. As time allows, I will add resources and standards that go with this Skill.