Digital Literacy Workshops for Teachers - 2021
Registration Information
Registration link (space is limited)
Zoom link sent via email to attendees one week before workshop
1 University of Utah credit
For questions, please contact Kristen Lindsay, kristen.lindsay@utah.edu
What is Digital Literacy and Why Do Students Need It?
Most of us know that literacy is the ability to read and write. But what does it mean to be digitally literate? And why does it matter? While reading, writing, and critical thinking are still crucial elements of digital literacy, today’s complex information environment requires additional competencies that go beyond traditional literacy skills.
As the name suggests, digital literacy sits at the intersection of literacy and technology, and includes a wide range of skills that include creating and sharing digital content as well as the ability to find, evaluate, and use digital content. Digital literacy improves our ability to navigate a complex, and often polluted, information environment. It helps us think about different ways of disseminating information to a broad audience through a variety of mediums such as websites, blogs, videos, podcasts, social media, games, and more. Digital literacy also gives us the skills to think critically about the impact of technology on our lives, privacy, inequality, attention spans, relationships, and mental health.
The University of Utah’s Urban Institute for Teacher Education in the College of Education, English Department, and Digital Matters invite you to join us for a two-day series of workshops to introduce 7-12th grade teachers to a mix of practical and theoretical Digital Literacy skills and concepts. Participants will work with University of Utah faculty and staff to learn more about podcast production and multi-modal writing/video essays to help your students move beyond the traditional research paper. As a group, we will gain a framework for thinking about timely topics such as misinformation, news integrity, and digital citizenship. To facilitate 21st century teaching and research, we will delve into effective online teaching and ethical use of digital resources. We also welcome the chance to hear from 7-12 grade teachers about what skills and concepts you would like to learn about to help your students become digitally literate.
Join us in June for this series of interactive and collaborative workshops!
Schedule
Tuesday, June 8, 2021, 9 am – 4 pm | Workshop | Presenters |
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9:00 am – 9:30 am | Introduction | Mary Burbank Scott Black |
9:30 am – 9:50 am | What is Digital Literacy? | Rebekah Cummings David Roh |
10:00 am – 11:50 pm | Podcast Production Podcasting in education: What is podcasting? Podcast listener demographics. Equipment and software for podcast production. Best practices and bad habits of podcasts. Types of podcasts generated by students, instructors, and staff. | Robert Nelson Avery Holton |
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm | Lunch | |
1:00 pm – 2:50 pm | Effective Online Teaching Research on digital learning environments suggests that learning outcomes are improved when students perceive themselves as part of a learning community. This workshop will examine strategies for fostering online learning community and student engagement. | Natalie Stillman-Webb |
3:00 pm – 3:50 pm | Ethical Use of Digital Resources During this session of the workshop, you will learn about details of copyright ownership, exceptions relevant to teaching both online and off, and ways of managing reuse of copyrighted works when the exceptions don’t apply. | David Roh Allyson Mower |
Thursday, June 10, 9 am – 4 pm | Workshop | Presenters |
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9:30 am - 10:00 am | Recap and Reflection on Day One | Rebekah Cummings David Roh |
10:00 am – 11:50 pm | Multi-Modal Writing / Video Essays We’ll cover several types of digital and multimodal compositions, to suit a variety of learning situations—from Google Maps essays, slide-based essays, video storytelling, to Adobe Spark as a free composing tool. You'll leave with resources to support your teaching. | Paisley Rekdal Lisa Bickmore Tony Sams |
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm | Lunch | |
1:00 pm – 3:20 pm | Misinformation, News Integrity, and Digital Citizenship Explore misinformation and news literacy through the lens of digital citizenship. Discuss fact checking, critical reading, and types of misinformation, develop strategies for identifying and evaluating misinformation. Develop misinformation and digital citizenship exercises to make the Internet a more positive force in students’ lives. | Avery Holton Rebekah Cummings Anne Jamison |
3:30 pm – 4:00 pm | Final Thoughts and Discussion | Mary Burbank Scott Black |
Presenters
Lisa Bickmore
Interim Assoc. Dean
English, Linguistics, and Writing Studies
Salt Lake Community College
Allyson Mower
Librarian, Head of Scholarly Communication & Copyright
Marriott Library
University of Utah
Mary Burbank
Asst. Dean College of Education
Director of The Urban Institute for Teacher Education
University of Utah
Natalie Stillman-Webb
Prof. (Lecturer), Coordinator of Online Writing Instruction
Writing and Rhetoric Studies
University of Utah
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