Media Literacy for the Digital Era

Trusted Resources for Navigating Modern Media

In a world of endless content streams, platforms, screen time, and generative AI, understanding and interpreting media is more important than ever. Yet, not all students have the strategies or knowledge to do so. Empower students to become informed media users with insights, strategies, key terms, classroom activities, and more.

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Media Literacy for the Digital Era

A School and District Guide to Navigating Modern Media

Empower students to become informed media users with insights, strategies, key terms, and classroom activities, including a media timeline and a crossword puzzle.

Graphic Organizers

Research Right, Think Bright!

Help students compare and evaluate sources, organize their findings, and conduct accurate, effective research with Teach Britannica’s versatile tools.

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Keep it Real: 5 Fact-Checking Tips

False information spreads quickly—whether through technology or word of mouth. Navigating truth in today’s fast-paced world requires sharp skills and smart strategies. These printable posters offer five tips to help your learners spot the truth.

Instructional Strategies

Teaching Tools, Sourced and Simplified!

Discover quick, impactful strategies to elevate student questioning and evaluation skills.

Evaluating Evidence

The Evaluating Evidence strategy encourages students to critically read and analyze information and evidence as they construct an explanation to answer a question. This strategy helps students actively read and process what they have read. It also encourages them to compare and synthesize information from multiple sources and perspectives as they form a conclusion and explain their thinking.

Question It!

Question It! is a discussion and collaboration strategy that invites students to generate and explore their questions about a text. Students create various types of questions independently and collaboratively and engage in group discussions to deepen text comprehension. This approach develops critical thinking and inquiry skills while promoting active reading.

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From Print to Pixels: Understanding Media’s Evolution

From Print to Pixels

Explore how the journey from inked newspapers to today’s instant TikTok era shapes the way we consume and create content. By reflecting on where we started, students can better appreciate how technological innovation and societal changes have transformed the media landscape—and education along with it.

Academic Toolkits

Research Ready: Your Academic Power-Up

Boost student confidence with our toolkits designed to help them master collegiate-level research.

Source Credibility, Reliability,
and Bias

This Academic Toolkit offers strategies for critically assessing sources’ credibility, reliability, and potential bias. By following this guide, you’ll learn to evaluate sources effectively, enhancing your research skills and informational literacy.

Primary and Secondary Sources

This Academic Toolkit provides essential guidance on understanding and utilizing primary and secondary sources in collegiate research. It distinguishes between these source types, explores their characteristics and applications across disciplines, and emphasizes the importance of source selection and evaluation.

A School and District Guide to Navigating Modern Media

Empower students to become informed media users with insights, strategies, key terms, classroom activities, and more.

A School and District Guide to Navigating Modern Media

Empower students to become informed media users with insights, strategies, key terms, classroom activities, and more.

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