Digital Inquiry Group
Project Title
For project support to update digital literacy resources to include navigating AI across multiple classroom subjects, such as social studies, history and civics
Date
Jun. 05, 2025
Duration
24 months
Description
While nineteen states have enacted legislation mandating the teaching of digital literacy, there is no subject for it during the school day. To satisfy these mandates, the topic typically finds its way to the desk of the librarian as a one-off session disconnected from the rest of the curriculum. Today’s students lead digital lives, spending more than eight hours a day online. If we want an informed citizenry, we need to weave digital literacy into the core curriculum so that it’s not an appendage but fits seamlessly with existing topics. The Digital Inquiry Group (DIG), a nonprofit established in 2002 by the Stanford History Education Group (SHEG), offers history curriculum and digital literacy materials with over 16 million downloads and used in all fifty states and around the globe. With support from the Corporation DIG will create and pilot AI instructional materials in Los Angeles and Chicago building on their existing digital literacy that can be implemented into history, civics, and government curricula, focusing on helping students evaluate social media claims and digital sources. They will be designing assessments, providing teachers with professional development, and engaging in a national outreach campaign to ensure widespread use of resources.