NEWS, STRATEGIES, TIPS & STORIES
Keep up-to-date with useful instructional strategies, tips, and personal reflections
about digital literacy from our team of facilitators and past participants.
EDC 532: SEMINAR IN DIGITAL LITERACY AT URI (FALL 2024)
Professor Julie Coiro is offering a fully online 13-week graduate class on digital literacy
for teachers, librarians, and college faculty. Join us to explore new research in digital
literacy, learn strategies for teaching students of all ages how to locate and evaluate
online information, and network with others in five virtual meetings across the
semester.
WHAT'S NEW?
GENERATIVE AI IN THE WRITING CLASSROOM: MY NEWEST FAVORITE FRENEMY
by Frank Romanelli
Curious about how generative AI is reshaping the teaching of writing? Join Frank Romanelli at the Summer Institute in Digital Literacy for a thought-provoking workshop where we’ll explore how to use these tools critically, ethically, and creatively.
SUMMER INSTITUTE IN DIGITAL LITERACY? YES, PLEASE!
by Susan Unger
Find out why Susan's transformational experience at the Summer Institute in Digital
Literacy brings her back for a FOURTH time this summer!
HAIKU HIKES: POETRY, SCIENCE, AND DIGITAL STORYTELLING IN ACTION
by Kara Clayton
Join us at the Summer Institute in 2025 for this workshop with Kara Clayton to learn how a simple haiku walk can blossom into a vibrant, multimodal storytelling project that strengthens language development, content knowledge, and creative expression.
FIRST-PERSON: ONE PARTICIPANT’S JOURNEY
by Tara Nathan
Our program changes every year, but here's how one participant experienced the
intellectual, social, and emotional journey that was the 9th Annual Summer Institute
in Digital Literacy, July 11 - 16th, 2021.
PIQUE STUDENTS' CURIOSITIES WITH PERSONAL DIGITAL INQUIRY (PDI)
by Julie Coiro
Fueled by personal curiosities and needs, Personal Digital Inquiry (PDI) practices can
help connect with people of any age and discover new ways of thinking about living,
teaching, and learning. Learn more about the student-centered inquiry practices we
use to frame our work at the Summer Institute Institute in Digital Literacy.
LEADING STUDENTS TO BECOME CITIZENS IN A DIGITAL WORLD
by Amy Fiske
Amy is a school librarian at the Dr. Albert D. Holland High School of Technology
in Boston, serving grades 7-12.
DAILY DOSES OF LITERACY TO FUEL READING AND THINKING
by Kristin Ziemke
Just like we might take daily vitamins to maintain health, we give students a daily
dose of digital literacy so they develop into informed citizens who can navigate, access,
and use the information around them and that which they have yet to encounter.
VIDEO PRODUCTION AS A METHOD FOR INCREASING READING
COMPREHENSION
by Kara Clayton
Moving images have always helped us capture meaning. It only makes sense then, by
creating moving images and creating sound, learners will understand the meaning
much more clearly.
EDC 534: SEMINAR IN DIGITAL AUTHORSHIP AT URI (SPRING 2025)
Learn with Professor Renee Hobbs in a fully online 13-week graduate class on digital
authorship that begins in January, 2025. The course examines how AI tools can be
used for creative expression and communication, considering some of the legal,
ethical, and social issues of human-machine collaboration.
EDC 532: SEMINAR IN DIGITAL LITERACY AT URI (FALL 2024)
Professor Julie Coiro is offering a fully online 13-week graduate class on digital literacy
for teachers, librarians, and college faculty. Join us to explore new research in digital
literacy, learn strategies for teaching students of all ages how to locate and evaluate
online information, and network with others in five virtual meetings across the
semester.
GLOBAL IMPACT: A PROGRAM TO GROW WITH
by Mariana Ochs
Here's how the University of Rhode Island's Summer Institute in Digital Literacy has
had a powerful impact on digital and media literacy education in Brazil.
