Center for Digital Literacy

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Syracuse University's Center for Digital Literacy

Promoting Research and Development for the Information Age. CDL partners three schools, the School of Information Studies, the School of Education and the S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communication.


We Welcome Faculty, Students, And Organizations Within And Outside Of Syracuse University Who Wish To Work With Us On CDL Projects And Activities.

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The Center for Digital Literacy, in partnership with Syracuse University's School of Information Studies and Burton Blatt Institute, has received a 2010 IMLS Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian grant for Project ENABLE (Expanding Nondiscriminatory Access By Librarians Everywhere). Project ENABLE provides a high quality, comprehensive, train-the-trainer continuing education program for school librarians in effective library and information services for students with disabilities. [more information]

2010 Distinguished Lecture presented by Dr. Stephen Krashen is scheduled for Monday September 27, 2010 at 4:30pm in the Katzer Collaboratory, 347 Hinds Hall. Dr. Krashen with share proven techniques used to promote language acquisition and literacy as well as lesser-known non-traditional measures.

 

[Recap available: click here]

THE CENTER FOR DIGITAL LITERACY (CDL) and Syracuse University’s iSchool is happy to announce the release of From the Creative Minds of 21st Century Librarians, the first e-book published by CDL for K-12 teacher-librarians. This 275-page free downloadable resource is full of lesson plans that implement AASL’s Standards for the 21st-Century Learner.