DART: A Foundational Digital Literacy ESL Curriculum

Are you looking for lesson ideas and activities for building digital literacy skills with your lower-level ESL students? The Digital Access and Resilience in Texas (DART) curriculum integrates beginning English language learning with foundational digital skills. The curriculum supplements existing English language instruction in lower-level adult English as a Second Language (ESL) classes.

"The DART curriculum provides the foundation that lower-level English language learners need to recognize and type the wide variety of characters required for most online passwords. The curriculum focuses on teaching students the skills necessary to accomplish eight major 'milestones' on the way to successfully creating and logging in and out of an online account.”

The free 20-lesson curriculum covers keyboarding, security, parts of a computer, using a computer, going online, creating accounts, safety, searching and trouble-shooting. Lessons require limited prep by teachers and tutors. They are scripted, and all the necessary handouts and materials are prepared. The lessons that focus on keyboarding skills should be especially helpful for beginning-level ESL learners.

Lessons are aligned with the CASAS and Northstar Digital Literacy standards.

To access the curriculum, go to: https://tcall.tamu.edu/dart-DL-ESL-Curriculum.html#lesson1