Digital Gardening: Cultivating Digital Literacy in Higher Education

Dec 12 2024 13 ep. 43 mins 59
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A podcast exploring how educators and educational institutions are embracing the opportunities of today’s technology-saturated landscapes and preparing students for complex, interconnected digital futures. This podcast is a project of the Digital Gardener Initiative at Indiana University, a multi-campus, interdisciplinary endeavor to promote integrating digital literacy, digital creativity, and digital learning into the curriculum. It is geared toward higher education teachers, leaders, and researchers interested in digital ways of knowing, doing, and making in the classroom and beyond.

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