Common Sense Media Launches New Digital Literacy & Well-Being Curriculum for Today’s Classrooms
Revamped curriculum features lessons on online safety, building healthy mindsets, managing screen time, AI literacy, and more
Common Sense Media
Monday, August 18, 2025
SAN FRANCISCO, August 18, 2025 — Common Sense Media today released its brand-new Digital Literacy & Well-Being Curriculum for K-8 students. This new curriculum is more than a simple update to Common Sense Media's trusted and widely-used K-12 Digital Citizenship Curriculum — it's a reimagined understanding of what digital literacy and well-being education needs to be, identifying the essential knowledge, skills, and mindsets students need to thrive in a tech-filled world.
Common Sense Media's curriculum has been the gold standard in digital literacy education for 15 years, helping educators across the globe teach their students how to navigate a complicated and often confusing online world. The curriculum now reaches 92,375 schools across all 50 states and abroad, 53 percent of which are registered as Title I.
Common Sense Media undertook a major overhaul of its curriculum in response to growing concerns about the challenges kids face in our rapidly changing digital world. Tech use continues to age down — kids are digital from day one, and the skills and mindsets they need to be taught are continuing to evolve. Additionally, a rise in mental health challenges among young people has necessitated a greater focus on mental well-being in digital literacy education. On top of this, schools continue to grapple with phone and AI policies in order to ensure responsible tech use and support student learning.
