WISIT Summer Institute 2026: Full Schedule

WISIT Summer Institute 2026

August 3 to 7, 2026
Washington International School, Tregaron Campus

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1:45pm EDT

Intro to Digital Thriving: Essential Tools for Educators Living & Teaching in a Tech-Filled World

LIMITED

Thursday August 6, 2026 1:45pm - 3:45pm EDT

The Gallery - Le Centre Brown

Limited Capacity seats available

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Technology is both helpful and harmful, connecting and dividing, inspiring and dispiriting. Our students’ experiences with technology are multi-faceted and our approach needs to be, too. In this mini course, you’ll get hands-on with resources from the Center for Digital Thriving and engage specific mindshifts that help you go from assuming to asking, from referee to coach, from an abstinence model to agency. We’ll engage in activities that are designed to surface values, make our thinking visible, and support digital agency for educators and students alike. You'll experience these activities yourself and explore how to adapt them for your context where you can use them right away.

Speakers

Dr. Carrie James

Co-Director of Project Zero, Center for Digital Thriving

Dr. Carrie James (she/her) is a sociologist, researcher, and the current Co-Director of Project Zero. Emphasizing qualitative methods, her work focuses on young people’s digital experiences, including opportunities and challenges for their well-being, social connections, and civic... Read More →

Dr. Beck Tench

Center for Digital Thriving

Dr. Beck Tench (she/her) has deep and abiding curiosities about how to live well in a radically connected world. She is a Principal Investigator at Project Zero, where she serves as a senior researcher, designer, and co-leader of the IMAGINE AI portfolio of work at the Center for Digital Thriving. Her research explores how people find hope and digital agency, individually and collectively. Beck also teaches at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.Beck earned her Ph.D. in Information Science at the University of Washington, where... Read More →

Dan Be Kim

Center for Digital Thriving

Dan Be Kim is a startup founder turned educational technologist, committed to reimagining how we teach and learn in the age of AI. Her current work centers on designing human-centered AI literacy programming for educators and learners. As a third culture kid with a multicultural upbringing... Read More →

Thursday August 6, 2026 1:45pm - 3:45pm EDT
The Gallery - Le Centre Brown

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WISIT Summer Institute 2026

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