Developing Digital Literacy Materials Using the Navigating Digital Information CrashCourse Series

Digital literacy is an ever growing key skill for university students. More than ever, they need to judge information, check sources, and avoid misinformation. This lesson plan explains how the YouTube series Navigating Digital Information from CrashCourse was used to build a course on digital literacy. The ten episodes formed the base for all the course lessons. The videos were assigned as homework and then discussed during class. With this, related activities and resources were used to promote discussion and reflection. The purpose was to give students a step-by-step process for learning how to think critically about online information and better understand the world around them.