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Why I Love Teaching Cyber Civics
Peter Kelley is Cyber Civics' Outreach Director. Maybe you've had a chance to chat with him? A former high school English teacher, this...


A 6th Grader Defines Citizenship
One of our favorite lessons in Level 1 of Cyber Civics is called, "The 5 Principles of Citizenship." We love to hear students explain how...


CBC News Visits a Cyber Civics Class
We received a visit from CBC News recently because they wanted to see how we teach "media literacy" to 8th grade students in a Cyber...


Waldorf Schools and Technology: Not So Strange Bedfellows
In his new book, “Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked,” Adam Alter writes how tech...


State Legislators, Media Commentators, AND Students All Agree—Give Us “Media Literacy”!
In California, where we are based, State Senator Hannah-Beth Jackson just introduced a bill that would ensure students know “how to spot...


A Cyber Civics Lesson on Sexting
Students today use technology as easily as previous generations used a pencil. But technology is much more powerful than a pen or pencil,...


A Teacher's Guide to Digital Citizenship
Did you miss our webcast for teachers about Digital Citizenship? Not to worry, just click on the image above and it will take you to a...


Transforming Kids From Digital Citizens to Media ALL STARS
It’s obvious that we, as educators, want to embrace the good and combat the bad, right? We all want kids to develop skills that encourage t


Musings on Teaching News Literacy
Our school has just begun working with the digital literacy curriculum called Cyber Civics. While as a Waldorf school we encourage limits...


Why Students are Getting "Faked Out" By Fake News
If kids knew what to look for, how to research it, and how to guarantee its validity – fake news wouldn’t be a problem at all…most of these


Cyber Civics Offers Lessons Essential to Future Voters
How to talk to kids about this presidential election is big news (a Google search for this topic yielded 3,650,000 results). Certainly...


Cyber Civics for Your School?
A kinder, safer Internet isn't just good for kids, it's good for all of us.


Social Media and High School Students: Will They Ever Learn?
I questioned my students about whether they felt courses in digital literacy and citizenship in middle school would have been helpful in pre
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