About This Site
Teachers wishing to foster digital literacy in their classrooms and states wishing to demonstrate it in their students face a common challenge: no comprehensive, established approach exists to guide the teaching, learning, and assessment of specific digital literacy skills. To begin addressing this challenge, we have developed this website, which was part of a two-year project funded by The Atlantic Philanthropies. The site articulates the skills comprising digital literacy with the goal of helping schools and districts implement a new approach to digital literacy teaching.
Throughout the process of developing the resources housed at this site, we collaborated with teachers who had access to the advice and expertise of the CCT team as they attempted to implement digital literacy activities in their classroom. This website represents our first attempt to recreate the benefits of this collaborative relationship in a freestanding set of resources that teachers and professional developers can access and use without the need for in-person training. To this end, the site not only presents each activity with explanatory text but also provides a rationale and an explication for the overall project of digital-literacy instruction. Return visitors, though, can bypass this instruction and go to the Flash activities directly from the pull-down menu at the top.