Thing 7a

What Research Says About Teaching Media Literacy from the Committed Sardine blog has some really great ideas on teaching students the skills needed in a digital world. "Reading online demands different skills than reading print." New literacy demands we teach how to use search engines, read URLs, identify Web site publishers as well as how to identify those sources that lead to valid research. As students are spending more and more time online, our responsibility is to teach the skills they need to stay safe and glean the information needed from their sources. In this digital driven world, our literacy instruction needs to change to keep up with the skills they are already using online. The blog lists the lack training of teachers in online skills as the Number 1 barrier to teaching students in a digital world. We know that, now how do we address it?