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Digital Literacy & Well-Being Curriculum

Common Sense Media's Digital Literacy & Well-Being curriculum gives teachers a free, research-backed framework for building students' digital literacy skills. From AI literacy and social media to cyberbullying, screen time, and digital footprint, the curriculum covers the digital challenges students face every day as well as the offline skills they need to manage them.

The curriculum is designed for grades 9-12, with more than 25 lessons that reflect what students are actually encountering today. Whether you're introducing digital literacy and well-being concepts for the first time or updating what you've been teaching for years, this is a good place to start.

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11 Resources
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AI brain made of circuits
AI Literacy · Information & Media Literacy
How Does AI Learn?
What is AI, and how does the data it learns from shape what it can do?
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AI Literacy · Information & Media Literacy
How to SIFT with AI
How do I check whether information is true when AI can make anything look credible?
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Video game character grabs the in-game item
Financial Literacy · Information & Media Literacy
Loot Boxes and the Cashless Effect
Why is it so easy to spend money in games without noticing?
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Media Literacy · Information & Media Literacy
Critical Ignoring: What's Worth Your Attention?
How do you decide what's worth your attention in a world designed to capture all of it?
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Freshman Foundations · Information & Media Literacy
Does Our AI Policy Work for Us?
What does it take for an AI policy to truly support student learning?
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Media Literacy · Information & Media Literacy
Building Your Own Perspective
What are you really looking for when you search for information?
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Young man looking at computer
Media Literacy · Information & Media Literacy
What's Real Online?
Why is misinformation so easy to fall for, and what can we do about it?
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A content creator filming himself
Financial Literacy · Information & Media Literacy
Making a Living in the Creator Economy
Can you make a living as a creator, and is it worth what you'd give up?
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Young woman playing guitar sitting on floor
AI Literacy · Information & Media Literacy
Creativity: Defining What's Yours
What makes creative work yours?
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AI Literacy · Information & Media Literacy
Creativity: Sharing It with AI
What do you gain and what do you lose when you make creative work with AI?
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someones arm chained to gambling online
Financial Literacy · Information & Media Literacy
Wanna Bet? The Betting Playbook
What makes online betting look like such a good deal?