Crash Course
Evaluating Photos and Videos: Crash Course Navigating Digital Information #7
When it comes to viewing videos and photos on the Internet, seeing is not always believing. With part seven from the Crash Course: Navigating Digital Information series, scholars learn that even image-based evidence can be unreliable....
Common Sense Media
What is Messenger Kids?
Time for some kid-friendly social media! Is Messenger Kids really a fool-proof app? Young techies learn the ins and outs of a popular app using a video. Part of a large digital citizenship series, the resource highlights the features of...
Curated Video
Privacy Part 2
Why is online privacy so important? Explore privacy with a group assignment for which pupils create word clouds with words they associate with privacy. A discussion and online activity follow. Learners will read articles, explore the...
Curated Video
Reporting - Safety and Abuse Tool
Keep your charges safe online with instruction on how to report problems on YouTube. After providing learners with information on the Safety and Abuse Tool, demonstrate how to use the tool and discuss the feature. In groups, learners...
Google
Avoid Scams
If an online deal seems too good to be true, it probably is! Cautious young users about Internet scams and phishing with a helpful and informative video from Google.
Google
Be Positive
Be the solution to the problems you see in the world! Middle schoolers watch a short video from Google and learn the importance of contributing to a positive Internet community, rather than being a part of the negativity.
Other
The Art of Screen Time: How Your Family Can Balance Digital Media and Real Life
In this video, author Anya Kamenetz talks about the benefits and drawbacks of technology use and how families can balance their use of digital media. [58:57]
PBS
Open Vault: Wgbh Media Library and Archives
Ever-expanding archive of historically significant video, audio, images, and transcripts produced by public educational television and radio broadcaster WGBH. Search for primary sources to support and inform studies in history, the arts...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Ruff Ruffman: Technology and You!
Watch Ruff Ruffman as he searches for an appropriate balance of technology and media use. [2 min, 33 sec]
University of California
Connected Learning: The Art of Screen Time Q&a With Mimi Ito and Anya Kamenetz
An interview with author Anya Kamenetz who wrote "The Art of Screen Time: How Your Family Can Balance Digital Media and Real Life." [44:51]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Digital Activism: shayfeen.com Film Module
This module examines the use of digital technology to further civic engagement in the face of repression. Shayfeen.com activists support the brave judges who step forward and ask for an investigation of election abuses. The women of...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Ruff Ruffman: Ask Ruff Ruffman: Squeaky Toy Edition
Focusing on searching safely on the internet, the much-loved character Ruff Ruffman addresses some of the questions kids have about technology and media use. [2 min, 28 sec]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Ruff Ruffman: Ask Ruff Ruffman: Monkey Boy Edition
Focusing on texting, the much-loved character Ruff Ruffman addresses some of the questions kids have about technology and media use. [2 min, 16 sec]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Ruff Ruffman: Photos and You!
Explore many of the ups and downs of digital photography and sharing pictures. [3 min]
Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media: Teen Voices: Presenting Yourself Online
In this video your students can hear other teens talk about the ins and outs of presenting themselves to others online, and consider what it means to be yourself in digital spaces. [2:58]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Teaching Tips: Preparing to Teach a Lesson (Cat in the Hat)
Kindergarten teacher Allison Frometa demonstrates how she prepares for teaching a lesson using online educational games on an interactive whiteboard. Using this example game from The Cat in the Hat, Allison discusses why previewing the...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Collection: Pbs Digital Studios
Explore top selections from the PBS Digital Studios library. This content is edgy and engaging, educational and thought - provoking - designed to grab your students' attention. Explore our collections curated towards design and...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Top Strategies for Transforming Professional Development
How can educators avoid professional development that is "one size fits all?" Join PBS LearningMedia in exploring the digital age tools and platforms that can help you share strategies with your colleagues to establish a professional...
Other
Western Reserve Public Media: Teaching With Tech: Tech Plus Crayons
The lesson consists of students working in groups of 3-4 to research different topics about Emperor Penguins. They will scan a QR code, which will take them to teacher-vetted websites for answers to topic questions. These topics are:...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Ruff Ruffman: Getting the Most From the Internet!
Hear about getting the most from the internet from the much-loved character Ruff Ruffman. [4 min, 21 sec]
Other
Western Reserve Public Media: Power Words (Youngstown City School District)
In this modeled lesson, second graders work in groups to create "video dictionaries," using a tablet and an app. Students complete graphic organizers then find images online to illustrate their words. They write their own sentences,...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Ruff Ruffman: Texting and You!
Watch Ruff Ruffman show that while texting can be fun, creative, and a great way to stay in touch, it also has some drawbacks. [2 min, 31 sec]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Ruff Ruffman: Privacy and You! Bonus Scene
Learn about privacy when texting from the much-loved character Ruff Ruffman. [1 min, 20 sec]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Ruff Ruffman: Privacy and You!
Hear advice on internet privacy from the much-loved character Ruff Ruffman. [3 min, 25 sec]