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.
WHAT'S NEW?
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.
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.
