The second edition of this best-selling classroom guide helps students understand why digital literacy is a crucial skill for their education, future careers, and participation in democracy. Offering practical strategies for assessing information online, this guide provides students with the tools to locate reliable sources and websites among the clickbait and viral videos that pervade the web. The guide's hands-on activities, germane readings, and lesson plans give students strategies for reading and analyzing data visualizations; finding and evaluating credible sources ; learning how to spot fake news ; fact-checking ; crafting a research question ; effectively conducting searches on Google and on library catalogs and databases ; finding peer-reviewed publications ; evaluating primary sources ; and understanding disinformation and misinformation, filter bubbles, propaganda, and satire in a variety of sources--including websites, social media posts, infographics, videos, and more (on platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube).

What is digital literacy? -- Understanding filters and algorithms, bots, and visual manipulation -- Understanding online searches -- Conducting online research -- Go to the (primary) source! -- Surveying the conversation by reading laterally -- Exploring the credibility of sources -- Working with your sources -- Additional strategies and resources -- Composing in digital spaces -- Customizing your online experience -- Appendix: Sample lesson plans