Google has announced it was launching 6 media literacy activities for Be Internet Awesome, “designed to help kids analyze & evaluate media as they navigate the Internet.”
The new activities, according to the Google blog post, were developed in collaboration with experts Anne Collier, Executive Director of The Net Safety Collaborative, & Faith Rogow, PhD, co-author of The Teacher’s Guide to Media Literacy & a co-founder of the National Association for Media Literacy Education.
The curriculum that will help teach kids things like how to avoid a phishing attack, what bots are, how to verify that information is credible, how to evaluate sources, how to identify disinformation online, spot fake URLs, + more.
Read about the development here.
