We're pleased to offer a variety of free professional development opportunities this year.
Join us for one or more one-hour webinars in our spring series:
Introduction to Civic Online Reasoning
The Digital Inquiry Group’s Civic Online Reasoning curriculum, based on research with professional fact checkers and tested in classrooms across the country, teaches students to effectively evaluate online content. During this interactive webinar, participants will consider the research behind the curriculum, review free curricular materials, and discuss how these resources can be integrated into their own classrooms.
Register to attend this webinar on Thursday, March 5, at 4pm PT/ 7pm ET
Reading Like a Historian for Younger Students
Explore new Reading Like a Historian lessons for elementary classrooms. Designed in collaboration with teachers from Los Angeles Unified School District, these lessons are aligned to the themes and design principles of the Educating for American Democracy Roadmap. During this session, participants will experience a model lesson, receive access to new curricular resources, and identify strategies for teaching with primary sources.
Register to attend this webinar on Wednesday, March 18, at 4pm PT/ 7pm ET
Reading Like a Historian Lessons with Digital Literacy
Explore new lessons that embed digital literacy into history lessons. During this session, participants will experience model lessons, receive access to new curricular resources, and learn strategies for integrating evidence-based digital literacy approaches into history instruction.
Register to attend this webinar on Wednesday, March 25, at 4pm PT/ 7pm ET
Digital Literacy in Your Context
During this webinar, participants will engage with Civic Online Reasoning lessons designed for use in different academic subjects, identify opportunities for digital literacy integration in their own teaching contexts, discuss potential barriers to integration, and receive new curricular resources.
Register to attend this webinar on Wednesday, April 8, at 4pm PT/ 7pm ET
We're also offering free asynchronous online courses. Each course includes evidence-based approaches to teaching digital literacy, instructional videos and simulations, and discussion boards.
The courses will be live for seven weeks, and participants can complete them at their own pace. Participants who successfully finish a course can request a certificate of attendance that verifies the professional learning hours completed.
Reading Like a Historian with Digital Literacy
In this 2-hour course, participants will learn how to integrate digital literacy into the history classroom and explore free, research-backed curricular resources from the Digital Inquiry Group.
This course will run from February 24 to April 10. Click here to enroll in the course.
Using Wikipedia Wisely
In this 2-hour course, participants will learn how to teach students to use Wikipedia as a starting place for verifying online information. They will debunk common misconceptions about Wikipedia and explore free, research-backed curricular resources from the Digital Inquiry Group for teaching students effective online evaluation strategies.
This course will run from February 24 to April 10. Click here to enroll in the course.
Civic Online Reasoning
In this 10-hour course, participants will learn how to equip students with research-backed strategies for evaluating online information and explore free curricular resources developed by the Digital Inquiry Group. The course also addresses common student misconceptions, as well as identifies outdated approaches to teaching digital literacy to avoid. The course includes three modules:
- Module 1: Search Like a Fact Checker with Lateral Reading
- Module 2: Verifying Claims on Social Media and Click Restraint
- Module 3: Evaluating Different Types of Online Sources
This course will run from February 24 to April 10. Click here to enroll in the course.
Basics of Evaluating Online Sources
In this 3-hour course, participants will learn how to equip students with research-backed strategies for evaluating online information, with an emphasis on the skill of lateral reading. They will also explore free, research-backed curricular resources developed by the Digital Inquiry Group.
This course will run from February 24 to April 10. Click here to enroll in the course.
Important: The contents of Civic Online Reasoning (3-Module Course) and Basics of Evaluating Online Sources (1-Module Course) overlap, so learners should enroll in either but not both.
Civic Online Reasoning in Your Teaching Context
In this 1-hour email-based course, participants will adapt Civic Online Reasoning curriculum materials to integrate digital literacy into the subjects they teach.
This course will run from February 24 to April 10. Click here to enroll in the course.
If you have any questions about our webinars or online courses, please email learn@inquirygroup.org.