Media Awareness Network offers a range of media education and Internet literacy resources.

For Classroom Use:

Passport to the Internet: Student tutorial for Internet literacy (Grades 4-8) - teaches students the critical thinking skills they need to apply to their online experiences, including online safety, authenticating online information, recognizing online marketing ploys, protecting their privacy, managing online relationships and dealing with cyberbullying. Accompanied by an extensive teacher’s guide with detailed instructions, backgrounders, and classroom activities and handouts. Available through a licensing arrangement.

Reality Check! Evaluating Online Information – teaches secondary students information literacy and how to make smart and ethical decisions using the Internet. The seven modules in Reality Check! can be discussed in the classroom, completed in the school lab or sent home as assignments. Accompanied by an extensive teachers’ guide with handouts and assignment sheets. Available through a licensing arrangement.

Jo Cool or Jo Fool – an interactive online game taking students through a series of mock sites that test their surfing skills. Accompanied by an extensive teachers’ guide, a student quiz and classroom activities. Available free online.

Privacy Playground – teaches kids 7-9 how to spot and avoid online marketing ploys, as well as threats to their personal safety. Accompanied by an extensive teachers’ guide. Available free online.

CyberSense and Nonsense – takes kids 9-11 on an exploration of chat rooms and teaches them to distinguish between fact and fiction and to detect bias and harmful stereotyping in online content. Accompanied by an extensive teachers’ guide. Available free online.

For Professional Development:

Web Awareness Workshop Series - five workshops examining safety, privacy, cyber-marketing, ethics and the authentication of online information. Accompanied by extensive teachers’ guides with pre- and post- presentation activities, handouts and Webographies.