See below for Media Awareness Network’s professional development and in-class resources for digital and media literacy. The resources are available, through a licensing arrangement to: provincial/territorial departments, school districts and boards, national, regional and local library systems, post-secondary institutions, and individual schools.
FOR CLASSROOM USE
Passport to the Internet: Student tutorial for Internet literacy (Grades 4-8)
An interactive Internet literacy tutorial that helps students develop the critical thinking skills they need to apply to their online experiences.
Using simulations of the most popular Internet environments, this interactive resource teaches students about online safety, authenticating online information, recognizing online marketing ploys, protecting their privacy, managing online relationships and dealing with cyberbullying. more
MyWorld: A digital literacy tutorial for secondary students
This interactive tutorial teaches students key digital literacy skills through a series of four thematically related chapters. MyWorld reflects teens' online experiences by providing a simulated online environment where students can move between search engines, social networking sites, instant messaging and other sites and services.
Each chapter provides a variety of tasks – some school-related, some personal – that teach students essential Internet literacy skills such as finding and authenticating online information, managing one's privacy and reputation online, handling online relationships and behaving ethically online. more
Reality Check! Evaluating Online Information
An interactive Independent Study Unit and class presentation to develop students’ information literacy and “Web smart” skills. more
FOR PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Web Awareness Workshop Series
Five PD workshops examining safety, privacy, marketing, cyberbullying and the authentication of online information.
