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A Growing Understanding of Digital Literacy

This post was written by Martin Wolske, DL4ALL Principal Investigator & Project Manager, for his personal weblog. The post has been republished on this site and includes links to other areas of this website. Literacy is a set of competencies and knowledge within a certain domain. Digital literacy, then, is literacy within the realm of digital information […]

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Site Update: Urbana Neighborhood Connections Center

Just like Champaign Public Library, work at the Urbana Neighborhood Connections Center (UNCC) hasn’t stopped with the end of the grant. Community Ambassador, Hailley Fargo, continued with UNCC, stepping into a slightly different, yet still digital literacy focused, role. The big highlights include. (more…)

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Site Update: Champaign Public Library

Sarah, our Community Ambassador at Champaign Public Library, has stayed at CPL and continues to work with teens. She has provided us a short update on the progress since the grant concluded in April 2015. (more…)

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Ricardo’s missing piece: Evaluation from Kenwood Elementary

Editor’s note: Both during and after the Digital Literacy for ALL Learners grant, we had two educators, Robert Stake and Hui-Lien (Sharon) Hsiao, observing the work happening at Tech Time at Kenwood Elementary School. Based on their observations and data gathering, they put together an evaluation story that demonstrates the work that was done during Tech […]

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Revival of DL4ALL Website

Hello! It has been a while since we wrote a blog post. Our grant funding ended in May 2015, and the DL4ALL project shifted into a new phase. This meant our work at the five sites did not stop. For some sites, the Community Ambassador stayed on, shifting into a new role but still grounded […]

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“We have arrived!”

Last week, our Hardware Friday workshop was a bit weird: Family Night was over, but this was still session one, and on Monday (5/11) started a new four-week session. Despite this weird place, something wonderful happened. Miriam, Kenwood’s librarian, had another engagement to attend and Amy, Kenwood’s volunteer coordinator who had recently begun working with us, […]

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Apollo

We had just wrapped up K-1 Monday, and I sent the Kids Plus students back to the after-school program after everyone else had been picked up. Remus, Romulus, and Cassandra (not their real names), three of the four helpers I’d had that day, were helping Mrs. Lamb clean up while waiting for the Kids Advisory […]

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Playing Roblox at UNCC

Last Friday I was reminded the importance of stepping back from being a teacher and instead, being a co-learner. On Fridays, the kids have the entire two hours for free time. The normal bunch headed straight for the computers (some even by-passing snack they wanted to play Roblox that badly). It was a quieter day […]

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Collaborating with IPA at Kenwood’s Tech Time

In January, we started collaborating with the International Preparatory Academy, a bilingual school in its first year that is currently sharing a building with Kenwood Elementary. Kenwood’s own building is having construction done this year, so they and IPA share the old Carey Busey building and IPA will expand into the rest of the building […]

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CPL Update (with photos!)

Lots of great work has been happening in the Teen Space at the Champaign Public Library. Our Community Ambassador, Sarah, has been able to capture these moments on camera. Enjoy! (more…)

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