We're pleased to offer a variety of free professional development opportunities.
We’ll be announcing more webinars soon.
We're offering free asynchronous online courses. Each course includes evidence-based approaches to teaching digital literacy, instructional videos and simulations, discussion boards, and optional webinars.
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 November 17 to January 5. 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 November 17 to January 5. 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 The course also addresses common student misconceptions and the pitfalls of outdated approaches to teaching digital literacy. 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 November 17 to January 5. 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. The course will include one module: Search Like a Fact Checker with Lateral Reading.
This course will run November 17 to January 5. Click here to enroll in the course.
Important: The content of Civic Online Reasoning (3-Module Course) and Basics of Evaluating Online Sources (1-Module Course) overlaps, so educators should enroll in either but not both.
If you have any questions about our webinars or online courses, please email learn@inquirygroup.org.