Integrating Digital Literacies Into Traditional Instructional Settings

Catalog description

This course will examine ways in which educators can bridge the gap in engagement in school settings by addressing the integration of popular culture, outside of the classroom/social aspects and digital literacies within the traditional academic learning setting. The course will address strategies and emerging technologies to make the curriculum relevant and authentic, as well as teach course participants to use skills and technology tools within and beyond ELA. Best practices in using technology as teaching and learning tools will be presented, and students will define and explore current uses of digital literacies to create, as well as improve literacy and content area lessons and classroom experiences.