UPEI to host Digital Pedagogy Lab institute, July 13-15
UPEI's Faculty of Education is proud to be hosting PEI's inaugural Digital Pedagogy Lab institute (#DigPed) from July 13-15, 2016. The #DigPed model brings educators together to engage hands-on with key digital tools, concepts, and leaders to build sustainable and innovative educational practices. The three-day event aims to foster collaborative learning community across all levels of PEI education, building critical capacity in technology integration and digital literacies across our system.
Teachers, faculty, learning designers, librarians, and educational decision-makers from PEI and beyond will all contribute to #DigPed. Participants choose between one of two tracks—Networks and Digital Literacies—and work collaboratively in small workshop-style classes to apply ideas to their own professional contexts.
The keynote for #DigPed PEI will be delivered by celebrated education technology writer and critic Audrey Watters, at 3 pm July 13 in UPEI's Alex H. MacKinnon Auditorium, Don and Marion McDougall Hall. Watters’ essays have appeared in venues including The Atlantic and The Chronicle of Higher Education, and her thought-provoking talks have been published in a number of collections. Watters' #DigPed keynote is free and open to anyone interested in PEI education.
“#DigPed is a powerful way to break down silos and build PEI's digital leadership capacity,” said event coordinator Dr. Bonnie Stewart. “The event will involve educators from K-12, from higher ed, and even from the US and UK, scaffolding ongoing conversations around this critical area of change and growth.”
“Our province is in a unique and exciting position to affect positive educational change,” said Dr. Ron MacDonald, dean of education at UPEI. “Optimism abounds within and across educational stakeholders groups, which is resulting in many fruitful collaborations. The #Digped Lab is proving to be an excellent example of one such multi-sectoral collaboration.”
See details at the #DigPed website. To register, click here. Join in the social media conversation at the hashtag #DigPed.
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