Date
Wednesday, October 14, 2026
Time
10:00 AM - 10:50 AM
Location Name
Educator Playground (G-P Atrium)
Name
Digital Literacy in Action: Crafting, Launching, and Learning from a New Curriculum
Description

For the 25/26 school year, our team developed a new digital literacy curriculum that integrates into our district’s Advisory program. With limited time available, our department created 20-minute, student-centered lessons based on the DLCS standards as well as identified high priority needs in our schools. The lessons addressed cyberbullying, misinformation, and AI literacy. During the session, we will share how we created the curriculum by pulling from resources, such as the News Literacy Project and Common Sense Media, as well as designing our own original lessons. We will discuss lessons learned in our first year teaching the lessons to students, and go over changes made for year two. All attendees will walk away with copies of the lesson slides, as well as links to several resources used in the curriculum development.

Session Type
Educator Playground
Track
Library/Media Literacy
Secondary Track
Digital Wellness/Digital Citizenship
Primary Audience
Middle/High School
Fall Conference Strands
Educate
MA DLCS Strands
Computing and Society, Digital Tools and Collaboration