MyWorld: A digital literacy tutorial for secondary students aims to teach students essential digital literacy skills through simulating their favourite online experiences. The tutorial is divided into four chapters, each of which focuses on a particular aspect of digital literacy: researching and authenticating online information, managing privacy and reputation, dealing with online relationships and using digital media in an ethical manner.

In each chapter, students use a variety of online tools and environments — a search engine, a social networking site, for example — to complete tasks that challenge their digital literacy skills. These tasks are based on issues youth encounter daily, relating to their friends, schoolwork and personal lives.

• an interactive online tutorial
• training presentations on each chapter for teachers
• an extensive Teacher’s Guide with detailed instructions and assessment tools
• a Classroom Activities Guide with background information, student handouts, and introductory, warm-up, follow-up and extension activities

Reality Check! Evaluating Online Information takes students in Grades 9 to 12 through a series of lesson modules that build critical thinking skills for getting the most out of the Internet while avoiding its information pitfalls. Applying a journalist’s who-what-when-where-why-and-how framework, Reality Check! focuses on teaching students to go beyond the obvious: to exercise scepticism, compare information sources and apply basic investigative tools when researching on the Net.

• a slide presentation for in-class discussion on bias, copyright, plagiarism, authenticating information and optimizing searches
• an independent study unit with interactive assignments
• a teacher’s guide with handouts and assignment sheets