What might it look like to teach about digital literacy in your subject area/grade range?

Being an EFL teacher from elementary to high school grants me great freedom to teach about digital literacy. If I work in a public school, I would need to follow the Ministry of Education guidelines, which will include at least one unit each year about responsibility over the World Wide Web. On the other hand, if I teach in a private school, I will have more freedom to add digital literacy to the program, it could, for instance, be introduced in a class about technology.

In the case of the goals of the NCTE framework, they can be achieved through communication skills, critical thinking abilities, and cultural competence in all classes. Specifically for the technology integration goals, making teamwork-oriented activities through a controlled environment on the internet seems the best way to fulfill these goals.

An idea for achieving the goals in a civic education class is to show an engaging video to students about fake newsn which forms it presents, and the dangers to society it implies. Afterwards, the class could go through one of the proposed activities we can find online, conversely, the one from Stanford History Education Group, which aims to teach students how to recognize real news from fake ones.