CA UDL Summit

Teaching and leading for critical digital media literacy now includes cultivating generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) literacy to decipher fact from misinformation and disinformation, identifying those perpetuated by bots, countering messages and systems that reinforce stereotypes and harm, and exploring new ways of learning. Preparing youth for democracy with civic engagement strategies include creating digital media content as part of project based learning (PBL), universal design for learning (UDL), culturally relevant and critical digital pedagogy. How might we facilitate learning in which youth reimagine and create the future?

In this session, education leaders will cultivate critical digital leadership with UDL to counter oppression and co-design systems that are responsive to learner variability and the rapidly changing contexts of digital media and generative AI. Critical digital leadership leads to learning that critically interrogates power, representation, agency, digital media, and technologies by decoding, meaning-making, analyzing, persona (exploring identity), and using digital tools for critical digital consumption, production, distribution, and invention. Example lessons and supporting resources will be provided.