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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