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?
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.
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.
