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Lesson Resource Websites

Google - Be Internet Awesome
Google recently created a series of easy to use digital citizenship lessons for teachers and also games for students. Lessons include activities for students to be smart, alert, strong, brave and kind.

 Common Sense Media Digital Citizenship
Common Sense Media is a website with lessons K-12 for teachers to teach a wide variety of digital skills to students. Scope and sequence is provided for each grade level as well as videos for teachers.

Google Search Education Lesson Plans
Google has created lessons for teachers to teach search skills. Lessons are leveled for beginning, intermediate and advanced student learners. Students can then test their skills with the A Google A Day challenge

Hyperdocs Lesson Plans
Hyperdocs.co is a website developed by teachers who created the "hyperdoc" which is a transformative, interactive google doc which can shift the way a teacher teaches with technology. On the webpage you will find resources to build your own hyperdoc as well as search for already created hyperdocs that you can use in your own classroom. 

Recommended Reading

Blogs

• Alice Keeler - Alice is an all around guru for all things Google and using technology effectively in the classroom.
• Matt Miller - Matt is the creator of "Ditch That Textbook" and is also another great resource for teachers using technology, specifically Google apps in the classroom. 
• Common Sense Media​ - This blog has all sorts of posts regarding digital citizenship including digital literacy. 

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Recommended Books

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Published Research Articles:

Admiraal, W. (2015). A Role-Play Game to Facilitate the Development of Students' Reflective Internet Skills. Educational Technology & Society. 18(3), 301-308.

Arke, E. T., Primack, B. A. (2009). Quantifying Media Literacy: Development, Reliability, and Validity of a New Measure. Educational Media International. 44(1) 53-65.

​Coiro, J., & Coscarelli, C., & Maykey, C., & Forzani, E. (2015) Investigating criteria that seventh graders use to evaluate the quality of online information. Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy. 59(3), 287-297

Wiley, J., Goldman, S. R., Graesser, A. C., Sanchez, C. A., Ash, I. K, Hemmerich, J. A. (2009). 
Source Evaluation, Comprehension, and Learning in Internet Science Inquiry Tasks. American Educational Research Association.  46(4) 1060-1106. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/40284747

Other Articles:

• How Teens Do Research In The Digital World 
• Knowing the Difference Between Digital Skills and Digital Literacies, and Teaching Both

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