Responsible and level-headed Americans must develop “digital literacy skills” to sort through the flood of “biased or false misinformation” in today’s information age.
The blend of digital technology and traditional merit badges, such as those earned by Boy and Girl Scouts, would provide an opportunity to both motivate and measure learning, according to new research by University at Buffalo education professor Sam Abramovich.
University at Buffalo Graduate School of Education master’s student Jules Orcutt thought that they would become an attorney while studying for their bachelor’s at SUNY Geneseo. Their experience as an undergraduate student had been difficult as the COVID-19 pandemic hit full swing during the spring semester of their freshman year, but they had pressed on with plenty of credits and they were set to graduate early in the spring of 2021.
Alumna Keba M. Rogers, BA ’00, MA ‘04, PhD ‘10, has recently made waves in the field of psychology and education with her successful business ventures.
University at Buffalo Graduate School of Education alumna Pauline Skowron Schmidt, EdM ’99, PhD ’09, received the Divergent Publication Award for Excellence in Literacy in a Digital Age Research from the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) in recognition of her book, “Reimagining Literacies in the Digital Age: Multimodal Strategies to Teach with Technology.”
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