Free Digital Citizenship & Media Literacy Resources
Help students think critically, stay safe, and act responsibly online — with free, teacher-created digital citizenship and media literacy lessons from nonprofit Curriki. A free course is on the way.
Explore free resources →What is digital citizenship?
Teaching students to thrive online
Digital citizenship is how students learn to use technology safely, responsibly, and thoughtfully — from protecting their privacy and managing a digital footprint to treating others with respect online. Media literacy is its close partner: the ability to find, evaluate, and question the information and media students encounter every day. Together they are among the most important life skills school can teach, and they cut across every subject and grade.
Safe & responsible
Students learn to protect their privacy, manage a digital footprint, and act with integrity online.
Critical thinkers
Media literacy builds the habit of questioning sources, spotting bias, and checking facts.
Kinder online
Empathy and respect carry into digital spaces — less cyberbullying, healthier communities.
Free & open
Every resource is free to use and adapt — no subscription, from a nonprofit.
What you’ll find
Lessons across every digital citizenship topic
Free, classroom-ready digital citizenship and media literacy lessons for every grade — browse them in the Curriki Library.
Why it matters more now
Digital citizenship in the AI age
AI has raised the stakes. Students now scroll past AI-generated text, images, and video, deepfakes, and algorithm-driven feeds every day — and telling what is real from what is synthetic is a brand-new literacy. At the same time, AI can be a powerful ally: it can help you build timely lessons on misinformation, model how to fact-check a claim, and spark real classroom conversations about using technology ethically. Teaching students to be thoughtful, skeptical, and kind online has never mattered more.
Digital Citizenship & Media Literacy in the AI Age
A free, self-paced course from Curriki on teaching digital citizenship and media literacy — privacy, online safety, and spotting misinformation in a world of AI-generated content. Join the list and we’ll send you the free resources now and an invitation the moment it launches.
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