Summer Institute Strengthens Educators' Digital Literacy

July 17, 2012

July 28, 2012   |   8:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.

This July, New York City’s public and parochial school teachers will learn new ways to engage students with 21st-century media and technologies during a one-day institute that boasts in-depth, hands-on workshops at St. John’s University’s Staten Island campus. 

The Digital Literacies Summer Institute 2012 features “practical, hands-on experiences” that shows K-12 teachers “what it really means to teach, guide, and communicate with students, helping them to make meaningful connections between their school work and their digital lives,” said Sandra Schamroth Abrams, Ph.D., an Assistant Professor in The School of Education at St. John’s. “The workshops will demonstrate ways for teachers to integrate technologies using the range of resources available at their schools.” 

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