Today’s Theme: Integrating Digital Literacy in School Curriculums

Why Digital Literacy Belongs in Every Classroom

Today’s literacy includes locating reliable information, interpreting multimodal texts, collaborating across platforms, and making responsible choices with data. If this resonates, tell us how your students define literacy—and what surprised you most this semester.

Why Digital Literacy Belongs in Every Classroom

Moving beyond a weekly computer class, integration embeds digital inquiry, media creation, and ethical decision-making into daily lessons. Comment with one ordinary unit you could enrich tomorrow through source evaluation, data visualization, or student-produced media.

Teacher Readiness: Professional Learning That Sticks

Use standards like ISTE for Students and Educators or DigCompEdu to set shared language and expectations. Map PD to observable classroom practices, not features. Tell us which framework your school uses and where you still need clarity.

Teacher Readiness: Professional Learning That Sticks

Short coaching cycles tied to real units plus micro-credentials motivate practice. Teachers experiment, gather student evidence, and reflect. Interested in a sample coaching dossier? Subscribe and we’ll send the template our readers love.

Teacher Readiness: Professional Learning That Sticks

During a ninth-grade research project, a librarian swapped a lecture for a credibility scavenger hunt. Students ranked sources and explained their reasoning on video. Engagement soared. Share your small win so we can celebrate and learn together.

Assessment That Honors Process and Product

Have learners curate artifacts, screenshots, drafts, and reflections showing how their thinking evolved. Portfolios make growth visible across subjects. Tell us your preferred platform and we’ll share a rubric tuned for developmental progress.

Assessment That Honors Process and Product

Design rubrics around sourcing, design for audience, accessibility, data reasoning, and attribution. Use exemplars and student co-creation. Post one criterion you struggle to phrase; our community will propose concise, student-friendly language.

Equity, Infrastructure, and Sustainable Policy

Plan for devices, reliable connectivity, and assistive technologies. Use captions, alt text, readable contrast, and multimodal options. Share an inclusion tip that changed your teaching; we’ll compile a community guide for subscribers.

Equity, Infrastructure, and Sustainable Policy

Adopt clear vetting processes for tools, data minimization, and transparent consent. Maintain inventories and sunset lists. Comment with a vetting question you face, and we’ll feature expert advice in our next update.

Equity, Infrastructure, and Sustainable Policy

Start small with a focused pilot, collect evidence, refine supports, and scale incrementally. Communicate wins and lessons. Subscribe to receive our printable implementation roadmap and a case-study newsletter series following a district’s journey.