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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. 

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WHAT'S NEW?

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. 

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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.

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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.

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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. 

 

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. 

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. 

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