AR HB1283

Division of Elementary and Secondary Education must establish K-12 digital media standards by the 2026-2027 school year, embedded into existing English language arts and library media standards.

Required instruction covers digital citizenship, media literacy, artificial intelligence usage, and internet safety including identification of cyberbullying, predatory behavior, and human trafficking.

Digital wellness instruction must address both positive effects of social media (communication, research, business) and negative effects (mental health impacts, addiction, misinformation, behavior manipulation, permanency of shared content).

Division must create or endorse curriculum to implement the standards and establish parental resources supporting implementation.

Bill defines key terms including artificial intelligence, digital citizenship, media literacy, news literacy, information literacy, and social media literacy.