Digital Access & Resilience in Texas (DART)
Digital Access and Resilience in Texas (DART) is a foundational digital literacy curriculum for beginning English learners that incorporates digital literacy skills, foundational print literacy skills, and conceptual understanding of basic digital literacy topics, beginning with letter recognition and keyboard knowledge through going online, searching the internet, and using email. All 20 units and their instructional resources are available to download for free either separately or as a complete document.
As described by the authors: “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 Northstar Phone Keyboard Basics & Logging In assessment is aligned with the DART curriculum and can assess mastery of the key concepts and skills delivered through DART.
DART is available under a creative commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike (CC BY-NC-SA) license.