This podcast episode will answer five essential reflection questions about my leadership journey. I'll provide an organized response to each question that synthesizes my week long experience attending the 2023 Summer Institute in Digital Literacy in Providence Rhode Island at the University of Rhode Island as a Tier 2 participant learning about leadership. This professional develop experience also included the fourth course in pursuit of the Graduate Certificate in Digital Literacy, EDC 535 (Leading with Digital Literacy).

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In this podcast I will center my thinking around my learning experience at the 2022 Summer Institute in Digital Literacy (SIDL) and four published articles about digital literacy. I’ll first guide us into the concept of digital literacy by sharing some definitions and insights I have gained over the last two weeks, synthesize what I’ve learned over the past two weeks, and provide ideas and personal action steps I can take with my students for the future to advance digital literacy competencies.

In today's episode Danielle Williams and I sit down to explore an inquiry question: How can we best prepare educators to become creative collaborators and support culturally relevant pedagogy by fostering student authentic voices? Together we explore this concept of authenticity in voice and the empowerment and engagement that comes when students are given that opportunity to digitally document and share their authentic voice.  

Whom and what to trust? This is a constant battle but we can work at it.

With more content choices available than ever before, deciding which types of media to use (and when not to use them) is an important one.  We continue to apply this essential information by making key daily decisions for our mental health, maintaining positive social relationships, and career prospects. This is the module that allows us to explore how people, profit, and platforms shape the choices we make using all forms of media.

We are living in the most challenging and complex information landscape in history. News literacy education empowers people with skills to successfully navigate this landscape. This module will allow us to focus on how we get the news, how framing and partisanship affects the news we receive and begin to focus on ways we can become better-informed and more engaged participants in our media saturated world.

Wrapping up Module 7 of the COMM 2300 Media Literacy Online course, the instructor provides a quick summary of mediated content deemed as violent and the implications explored in this module.

Wrapping up Module 5 of the COMM 2300 Media Literacy Online course, the instructor summarizes the mass media business and the pattern of government deregulation and the consolidation of media ownership.

Wrapping up Module 3 of the COMM 2300 Media Literacy Online course, the instructor summarizes the individual's selective processing and search personalization models embedded in our digital media experiences.