Digital Literacy Lesson Development by

MD Digital Literacy Framework

nichiporter — 2025-09-11 14:11:28 UTC

Helpful to get a big picture idea of what digital literacy encompasses. Great for formulating objectives. A few lesson ideas.

Flippity

nichiporter — 2025-09-11 14:12:58 UTC

Free resource to create your own online activities and practices for students. Most helpful activities: manipulatives, matching games, and typing tests

Wordwall.net

nichiporter — 2025-09-11 14:14:07 UTC

Create your own digital activities. Great for vocabulary learning and mouse skills practice. Free account allows up to 5 activities.

DRAW (2022) Report on Adult Literacy Instruction

nichiporter — 2025-09-11 14:16:45 UTC

Helpful for background information and suggestions for overall instructional practices.

Rachel Riggs's Digital Literacy Action Plan (2022)

nichiporter — 2025-09-11 14:40:06 UTC

Outlines challenges with teaching digital literacy in the ESL classroom. Proposed solution for individual classroom teachers.

LINCS Brief re: Digital Literacy & ESL Instruction (2017)

nichiporter — 2025-09-11 14:41:56 UTC

Good background/foundation information about the challenges and potential solutions.

Research study from Wang et al. (2024) surveying program directors re: challenges

nichiporter — 2025-09-11 14:44:57 UTC

Survey of adult education program directors in Texas. Findings including factors that contribute to successful technology integration & common barriers.

DART: A Foundation Digital Literacy ESL Curriculum

nichiporter — 2025-09-11 14:48:05 UTC

Detailed lesson plans with teaching ideas and handouts for low-level very basic digital literacy skills. Links within the lesson plans to online digital practice. Some links may be broken.

The Digital Skills Glossary - By Theme

nichiporter — 2025-09-11 14:49:38 UTC

Slides with definitions of digital literacy terms. Several themes are verb basic (computer, mouse & keyboard, navigation) while other themes are more advanced. Copyable and free to use!

Digital Skills Glossary Instructor Guide

nichiporter — 2025-09-11 14:50:26 UTC

Digital Skills Glossary instructor guide has activity ideas with some links to external digital activities.

Classroom Routines to Build Essential Basic Computer Skills (NorthStar)

nichiporter — 2025-09-11 14:51:17 UTC

This resource has links to content that is behind paywalls/needs to be purchased, however, it also has fantastic free Google slides on basic digital skill routines. Find these links in the second column on the charts on pages 6-8.

Hubbs Center Digital Literacy

nichiporter — 2025-09-11 14:52:02 UTC

Free slides on various digital literacy skills. Some basic skills (mouse, internet, online forms). Not all links are currently working.

Northstar Digital Literacy - List of External Resources

nichiporter — 2025-09-11 14:57:02 UTC

External links to webpages, videos, and practice activities compiled by Northstar. No links are behind a paywall, but some may not be active anymore.

GCF Global Tutorials

nichiporter — 2025-09-11 14:57:28 UTC

Free online tutorials that cover various topics. Mouse Tutorial and Typing Tutorial are especially helpful for very basic learners.

Google Applied Digital Skills Lessons

nichiporter — 2025-09-11 14:58:57 UTC

Free video lessons. Not ESL focused. Many are more advanced, but some such as the basic Gmail introduction could be useful.

Flippity - Manipulatives (Spelling for Mouse work)

nichiporter — 2025-09-11 15:01:41 UTC

Manipulative activity to have low-level learners practice mouse skills by spelling

Flippity - Manipulatives (Sentence building for Mouse work)

nichiporter — 2025-09-11 15:03:13 UTC

Manipulative activity to have low-level learners practice mouse skills by making sentences

Flippity - Matching (basic computer action vocabulary)

nichiporter — 2025-09-11 15:04:53 UTC

Flippity - Typing (shift key & basic numbers and symbols)

nichiporter — 2025-09-11 15:07:04 UTC

Typing practice to practice using the shift key typing some symbols.

Wordwall - Basic computer vocabulary

nichiporter — 2025-09-11 15:08:11 UTC

Activity to practice basic computer vocabulary and mouse skills (drag and drop)

Wordwall - Symbols vocabulary

nichiporter — 2025-09-11 15:09:00 UTC

Activity to practice symbol vocabulary

Typing.com

nichiporter — 2025-09-11 15:09:42 UTC

Good for practicing proper finger position on the keyboard. Can practice without creating an account, but it can help if students create their own account to save their progress.

Dragging & Dropping Puzzle Practice

nichiporter — 2025-09-11 15:10:14 UTC

Practice with dragging and dropping. 12 short puzzles. Students can complete independently, but shouldn’t be allowed to go on to the next task as this is part of a coding practice.

Northstar - Drag and Drop practice

nichiporter — 2025-09-11 15:12:53 UTC

Direct link to a slide/short video within a larger NorthStar Digital Literacy Practice on mouse skills just to focus on drag and drop; Short activity unless student moves forward into the other slides; English level higher; May need teacher assistance

Mouse speed games

nichiporter — 2025-09-11 15:13:49 UTC

Game to practice mouse speed and accuracy. Target audience for website is K-12.

Vocabulary Matching - Web Browser

nichiporter — 2025-09-11 15:14:29 UTC

Vocabulary matching activities (5) on web browser vocabulary; Student may be able to complete independently

Vocabulary Matching - Internet Browser

nichiporter — 2025-09-11 15:14:56 UTC

Vocabulary matching activities (5) on internet browser vocabulary; Students may be able to complete independently

Comparison of Digital Literacy Curriculum Resources for ESL

nichiporter — 2025-09-11 15:19:28 UTC

Switchboard wrote up a fantastic guide evaluating the digital literacy resources for ESL learners out there.