URI offering fourth annual Summer Institute in Digital Literacy

PROVIDENCE – The University of Rhode Island will offer its fourth annual Summer Institute in Digital Literacy from July 24-29 at the Providence Feinstein Campus, 80 Washington St.

The Summer Institute in Digital Literacy is a six-day educational technology conference designed to support the learning needs of educators. More than 150 teachers, college professors, librarians and media professionals will attend this intensive program.

According to information from URI, the Institute is part of a 12-credit graduate certificate program offered by Renee Hobbs and Julie Coiro that was recognized by the U.S. Department of Education as a model of teacher education.

Digital media tools for learning, such as Google Apps for Education, as well as web, video and multimedia production are explored through the program. Participants are given the option to choose from more than 40 workshops and explore free or low-cost digital tools including Storify, FlipGrid, Padlet, WordPress and Evernote.

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“By applying knowledge and skills in using digital texts, tools and technologies, participants advance their digital literacy through collaborative, practical hands-on creative activity,” Renee Hobbs, professor of communication studies and co-director of the program, said in a statement.

The idea is for those who participate in this program to understand how media and technology have resulted in a change in literacy and how this cultural and technological shift implicates teaching and learning at all levels of education.

“Through project-based inquiry and curriculum design, we show how to integrate digital literacy into existing academic programs,” Julie Coiro, associate professor of education, said in prepared remarks.

Principal of the Science Leadership Academy in Philadelphia, Chris Lehmann, will be the keynote speaker on July 27. Lehmann co-authored the book, “School 2.0: How to Create the Schools We Need.”
Workshop faculty will include Jill Castek of Portland State University, Kara Clayton of Lee M. Thurston High School in Redford Charter Township in Michigan, Charles Coiro of the Coast Guard Leadership Academy, Rhys Daunic of The Media Spot in New York, Yonty Friesem of Central Connecticut State University, Troy Hicks of Central Michigan University, Kristin Hokanson of Inquiry Schools in Pennsylvania and Maria Ranieri of the University of Florence, Italy.

The Institute is co-sponsored by URI’s School of Education and the Media Education Lab at the Harrington School of Communication and Media.

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