Institute for the Integration of Technology into Teaching and Learning: Instruments
The Institute for the Integration of Technology into Teaching and Learning conducts research and implements best practices in the area of teaching and learning with technology. The institute's instruments and online data collection systems have been used to gather data from thousands of educators...
21st-Century Literacies, Critical Media Pedagogies, and Language Arts
"21st-Century Literacies, Critical Media Pedagogies, and Language Arts" by Dr. Ernest Morrell is an article from The Reading Teacher. Dr. Morrell describes the ways in which the Internet, and the literacies required to navigate it, have changed since the early 1990's. He argues that teachers need...
State Standards for Information, Media, and Digital Literacy
The following states have adopted specific learning standards related to information, digital, and media literacy. Alaska Digital Literacy Standards Arizona Educational Technology Standard Arkansas
Making Sense of Online Text
"Making Sense of Online Text" by Dr. Julie Coiro is article published in ASCD's Educational Leadership. Dr. Coiro describes why reading online requires additional skills and knowledge that are different from those required to read printed texts. She outlines some of these skills related to...
Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Civic Online Reasoning
"Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Civic Online Reasoning" is an executive summary of the Stanford History Education Group's recent project to develop and validate assessments of students' ability to evaluate information they read online. The research included students in middle schools,...
Hoax or No Hoax? Strategies for Online Comprehension and Evaluation
"Hoax or No Hoax? Strategies for Online Comprehension and Evaluation" is a lesson available on the ReadWriteThink website. Over a series of four 60-minute sessions, the lesson presents an instructional plan for teaching strategies in a cycle of planning, predicting, monitoring, and evaluating...
The New Literacies
"The New Literacies" is an article on the Reading Rockets website. The article describes the need to teach students specific strategies and skills for reading on the Internet, describes instructional models being studied by the New Literacies Research Lab at the University of Connecticut, and...
Science Technology Engineering Arts Math
The San Diego County Office of Education (SDCOE) is dedicated to increasing youth's’ experience with Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math (STEAM). SDCOE created a STEAM directory that is intended to enable the public, educators, and STEAM partners to identify valuable STEAM resources.