This program offers rich learning experiences on a wide range of topics and issues related to digital literacy in the context of K-12 and higher education, librarianship, community, and democracy.  We explore topics including:

 

Literacy in a Digital Age

• increasing relevance by connecting media, culture, and classroom

• ​designing and implementing online learning in a post-pandemic world

• integrating inquiry learning practices into instruction

• strategies for scaffolding students' independent learning 

• online reading comprehension strategies

• digital writing and multimedia composition pedagogies

 

Responses to Cultural and Technological Change​​

• balancing synchronous and asynchronous online learning

• best practices in online learning in K-12 and higher education

• strategies for promoting empathy, mindfulness, and relaxation 

• the role of popular culture & digital media in the lives of children and teens

• creative media production as a form of inquiry learning

 

Literacy, Education, and Democracy

• addressing digital inequalities in education and society

• analyzing contemporary propaganda and disinformation

• civic agency and empowerment

• curation and collaboration 

• algorithmically personalized search, persuasion & entertainment 

• unexpected implications of digital media on the democratic process.