Digital Literacies

Literacy and Learning in Digitally Connected Worlds.

Explore Tools and Platforms

Curated resource list for understanding, studying, researching, and working with digital literacy (With contributions from Educ. 5388 Students Penn GSE)

TOOLS/ PLATFORMS FOR TEACHERS
  1. Magic School AI: AI for teachers, schools, and students.
  2. EdPuzzle: Build interactive video lessons.
  3. 324 Free Tools for Teachers – Free Educational Technology
  4. Quizlet: a digital pop-quiz database. It features more than 300 million study sets, each one being like a deck of flash cards. It’s also interactive, with the ability to create your own study set, or clone and edit those of others
  5. Poll Everywhere: This tool creates an interactive classroom experience online. Teaching students at a distance can be challenging. If students aren’t comfortable sharing their cameras, instructors can’t read their body language to understand where they’re struggling. Poll Everywhere provides a safe platform for every student to ask questions, participate in group activities, and share thoughts and insights, right from their phone or computer.
TOOLS/ PLATFORMS FOR CREATIVE MAKING
  1. Pixton: Comic Strip Maker
  2. Yarn: is a platform where you can find clips of words and phrases used in TV shows and movies. It is a great resource for student learning English as their second/other language
SOCIAL LEARNING PLATFORMS
  1. Perusall : An online social learning platform for annotating text, video, and audio content 
  2. Miro. An Interactive Whiteboard Platform