Explore & More – The Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Children’s Museum and AT&T have collaborated to create and bring an innovative hands-on experience in digital literacy to 3,000 Buffalo and Niagara Falls area third-grade students that attend tier-1 schools.
The AT&T Digital Enrichment Experience launched Thursday, September 29th with 45 students being the first participants engaging in digital literacy activities across the museum. The digital literacy education program has been designed to address equality issues in technology education and to help local students impacted by the digital divide gain digital literacy knowledge and skills which are key barriers to broadband and device adoption, while helping to narrow the digital divide. Designed to help improve student readiness, this program will help students build skills and confidence using technology and utilizing the internet in safe and educational ways. To eliminate economic barriers, the programis being offered at no cost thanks to support from AT&T, which is part of the company’s $2 billion nationwide commitment from 2021-2023 to help bridge the digital divide.
Explore & More’s AT&T Digital Enrichment Experience is a free, no cost opportunity for groups of students from Buffalo and Niagara Falls public and charter schools to visit the museum to participate in this digital literacy program. The program guides students through age appropriate digital and technology focused activity stations throughout the museum’s seven interactive play zones and three educational studios, with different fun and engaging digital activities at each stop. In addition, the program provides an educational video to be viewed in their classroom with their teachers prior to students beginning the Digital Enrichment stations. The areas of education will cover computer programming, robotics, digital safety and more.
Students will also receive a certificate of completion. In addition, AT&T is providing all students in the program and their schools access to The Achievery, a free digital learning online platform created by AT&T designed to make digital learning more engaging, entertaining, and inspiring for K-12 students.
“It is an honor to work with Explore & More to develop this innovative digital literacy education program which will help young students develop critical skills that will prepare them for success inside and outside the classroom in a wonderful learning and fun environment,” said Amy Kramer, President, New York State, AT&T. “AT&T is also proud to be collaborating with the local public school districts to allow even more students across region to visit and benefit from this outstanding museum, while helping to bridge the digital divide for these remarkable third graders.”
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