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Microsoft New England Research Center, Cambridge MA
** Learning, working and living in a digital networked world requires a new set of literacies: Online Content Creation, Online Reading Comprehension, and Online Collaborative Inquiry. The Massachusetts New Literacies Institute is a week long event that prepares educators with the skills necessary to integrate these new literacies into their content. **  ** The Institute will include: keynote speakers who are leaders in the field, workshops to learn specific digital tools, digging deeper sessions that help teachers learn to integrate new literacies in the MA Framworks, and design studio time to work on group projects. **
 * For the past 2 years, Microsoft hosted the MA New Literacies Institute for the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education and the Lower Pioneer Valley Educational Collaborative at the NERD Center in Cambridge and it has been hugely successful. Over 200 teachers from 50 districts have participated and become New Literacies teacher leaders in their schools. **

** During the week in Cambridge you will: **


 * ** Develop networks with teachers from around the state **
 * ** Develop skills with digital tools you can use in your classroom **
 * ** Become a New Literacies teacher leader in your district **
 * ** Learn how to integrate New Literacies and Frameworks **