The Summer Institute in Digital Literacy is the world's longest-running professional development program in digital literacy. The program is a week-long interdisciplinary gathering that includes K-12 educators and school leaders; higher education faculty and researchers; school, public and academic librarians; media literacy educators working in non-school contexts; and journalists and creative media professionals.

During this intensive 42-hour program, you will get inspired by experts in literacy, learning, media and technology and have frequent opportunities to advance your digital literacy competencies through hands-on, minds-on learning experiences.

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At the Summer Institute in Digital Literacy, everyone learns from everyone! All week long, you will: 

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• Participate in meaningful conversations and develop collaborative relationships.

• Create a meaningful digital resource that you can implement or use in your own work context.

• Share ideas for how to integrate digital inquiry and creative production into K-12 classrooms, libraries, and/or maker spaces through intentional planning, experiential learning, collaboration, and innovative assessments of student learning.

• Design and reflect upon culturally responsive teaching practices that empower learners as you examine the intersection between digital and media literacy, social justice and democracy.  

• Discuss how to restore critical attention to the strategic power of emotional response to digital texts, tools, technologies and help people how to distinguish between education & indoctrination  

• Develop competencies as a media literacy entrepreneur or discover or enlarge your identity as a leader in digital literacy.

• Learn about research that supports your strategic planning process and meet with others facing similar challenges to brainstorm creative approaches to find funding for digital and media literacy initiatives.