This resource is a learning object based on technology H5P and could be implemented in any WordPress or Moodle course. It contains a full activity aimed at exploring a dimension of the Critical Digital Literacies Framework: Information Literacies. The aim of the activities embedded in this learning object are to develop teachers’ understanding of the main problems of technology usage around the CDL subdimensions Digital media use, Online inquiry process, Online reading comprehension and Source validation and verification for the primary school level. Therefore the teachers can delve into the concepts, current research and policymaking context; they are offered questions to reflect on their teaching to deal with a critical usage of technology. Moreover, the teachers are provided with some instructions to reflect on design for learning to develop critical digital literacies in their classrooms.
Net Aware
This website is your guide to apps, games and social media sites. It allows you to search for certain apps or games and it will give you the official age rating, reviews and then a dashboard that shows an expert review of the risks in relation to Sex, Violence & hatred,
Bullying, Suicide & self-harm, Drink, drugs & crime. It then gives you advice as to how you can keep your children safe when using the apps.
It also keeps you up to date with the latest news and advice around the apps, sites and games your kids are using
Meet – Media Education for Equity and Tolerance project
This is a toolkit designed and implemented under the project MEET (Media Education for
Equity and Tolerance), an Erasmus+ project. The main aim of MEET is to promote a critical and intercultural understanding and an aware use of media among young citizens in multicultural public schools and democratic societies.
The toolkit includes: a theoretical background, 3 videos and a set of pedagogical guidelines for supporting teachers in the design of inclusive and situated media education activities.
These can be used by teachers as a self-training tool, as a teaching resource and as a design tool.
The Learning Scenarios developed in this project could be adopted in teachers’ classrooms and the guidelines permits to understand how to adapt them to local context or how to create new ones
Internet Matters
This is an online safety resource hub to access a range of information for use in the classroom and to help parents make positive changes to children’s digital lives. This website covers a wide range of topics and issues regarding internet safety and provides advice and resources for ages ranging from 0-5 to 14+. There are guides and resources and ideas for lessons.
Teaching online inquiry skills
The material package includes example materials (teaching material in the form of slide shows, assignment instructions and digital work templates) from the teaching unit, which aims to teach knowledge work competencies, especially online inquiry skills. The teaching unit consists of a group work assignment of four lessons, structured according to the phases of the online inquiry process (searching, evaluating, synthesizing, presenting), in which students’ examine a contradictory health issue using online information sources.
The package consists of the following materials (in Finnish): Teacher’s Guide, Assignment Instructions, Students’ Work Document Template, Online Working Space Model as a
OneNote Notebook, and Instructions and Teaching materials for different work phases.
The teaching experiment was planned in the ARONI research project (Argumentative online inquiry in building students’ knowledge work competences, https://blogs.sis.uta.fi/aroni/) funded by the Academy of Finland and it was implemented
in collaboration with Finnish teachers in Mother Tongue and Literature high school courses in the academic year 2018-2019. Example materials are from this experiment, but the
working methods and the pedagogical model can be applied in any course and subject as well as to different educational levels.