Promoting Digital Literacy with High Schoolers: From Freshman Foundations to Well-Being

Presented by Erikk Henderson-Hood, Education Content Manager, Common Sense Media; Daniel Vargas Campos, Senior Program Manager, Common Sense Media; and Eisha Buch, Experienced Educator, Head of Teaching and Learning, Common Sense Media

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What does it look like to prepare high school students to flourish in an increasingly complex digital world?

Join this edWebinar for an interactive walkthrough of Common Sense Media’s new high school curriculum, where we’ll explore a holistic approach to digital literacy organized around six interconnected pathways that address the challenges and opportunities students encounter throughout high school:

• Freshman Foundations: What core social-emotional and academic success skills help students navigate the modern high school experience?
• Health and Wellness: How can educators promote teens’ healthy relationships with technology while supporting individual and social well-being?
• AI Literacy: How can we help students engage with AI ethically, responsibly, and with discernment?
• Media Literacy: How can we strengthen students’ critical-thinking skills as they navigate an increasingly complex information landscape?
• Financial Literacy: How can we prepare students to navigate the risks and opportunities of the digital economy?
• Online Harms and Safety: How can we help students recognize, respond to, and recover from digital harms such as cyberbullying, doxxing, and deepfakes?

Whether you’re a teacher, instructional coach, librarian, or curriculum coordinator, you will leave this session with:

• A clear picture of the real digital challenges your students are navigating
• Research-informed approaches for promoting digital literacy and well-being
• Sample lesson previews you can use or share with your team
• A sense of how digital literacy instruction can fit into various subject areas or existing school initiatives

This edWebinar will be of interest to high school teachers, librarians, school leaders, district leaders, and education technology leaders.

About the Presenters

Erikk Henderson-Hood is an Education Content Manager at Common Sense Media, where he writes lessons, develops videos, and collaborates with colleagues, teachers, and students to craft an engaging curriculum. Drawing on nearly ten years of classroom teaching at the middle school, high school, and college levels, Erikk is passionate about digital literacy and opportunities to encourage students (and even his own kids) to learn through social games and activities that promote healthy habits both online and offline.

Daniel Vargas Campos is a Senior Program Manager at Common Sense Media with expertise in content operations, online safety, and digital well-being. Passionate about creating safer, healthier digital spaces, he helps develop resources that support kids, parents, and educators in navigating emerging technologies, including the Digital Citizenship Curriculum, SEL in Digital Life resources, and AI-readiness content. Previously, Daniel was a graduate instructor and researcher at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Education, where he studied the impact of educational technologies on students from non-dominant backgrounds. He holds an M.A. in social and cultural studies from UC Berkeley and a B.A. in interdisciplinary studies from Tufts University.

Eisha Buch is the Head of Teaching and Learning at Common Sense Media, where she leads the organization’s K–12 Digital Literacy & Well-Being Curriculum, a free, comprehensive curriculum now reaching millions of students, educators, and families across more than 85,000 schools worldwide. A former New York City teacher with over 15 years in education, Eisha has built a framework for helping young people stay fully human in a tech-saturated world: not by avoiding technology, but by thinking critically about its influence on their relationships, well-being, and sense of self. She is committed to making digital literacy as foundational as learning to read and write.

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