Digital Citizenship, Media Literacy, and the ACTS Framework

Abstract

Teachers can help students develop their digital citizenship and media literacy skills by having them Analyze, Create, Then Share civic media messages.

Making Artificial Intelligence Your Friend, Not Your Foe, in the Literacy Classroom

“…Examples include a modified version of some of the techniques included in Von Gillern et al. 's (2022) Analyze, Create, Then Share (ACTS) framework for evaluating online media, such as understanding who created the digital resource and for what purpose, evaluating the evidence and credibility of the claim, evaluating how the purpose of the creator may have influenced the inclusion or exclusion of particular information, and determining what other sources say about the topic (see Von Gillern et al., 2022 for a full explanation of the ACTS framework). This framework and others would need to be modified for purposes of using it with AI since tools like ChatGPT draw information from large datasets rather than a single resource.…”

Rethinking Text Features in the Digital Age: Teaching Elementary Students to Navigate Digital Stories, Websites, and Videos

“…To alleviate this part of the website reading process, teachers may provide website links rather than asking young students to search for their own. Even when websites are provided, it is still essential that students learn how to critically evaluate websites for truthfulness (von Gillern et al, 2022). Many frameworks have been developed to guide students in this process (e.g., von Gillern et al, 2022; Zhang et al, 2011).…”

“…Even when websites are provided, it is still essential that students learn how to critically evaluate websites for truthfulness (von Gillern et al, 2022). Many frameworks have been developed to guide students in this process (e.g., von Gillern et al, 2022; Zhang et al, 2011). However, determining the validity of a website varies among academic disciplines as the purposes for accessing these websites also differ.…”

Evaluating Video Games as Tools for Education on Fake News and Misinformation

“…Other authors have proposed their own theoretical frameworks for media literacy in educational programs [16,[52][53][54], and there have also been institutional efforts toward this end, such as the Digital Citizenship Education Handbook by the Council of Europe [55], written from a theoretical perspective. These initiatives and proposals are of a general nature and do not tackle media literacy in education from a practical and implementable point of view.…”