Leveraging the popularity of Garfield the Cat to support K-5 teachers and students in their digital literacy efforts
How might we build an age-appropriate, standards-based, cross-curricular digital literacy curriculum that is fun and accessible to educators?
The new Professor Garfield website, written and designed by a team of EMDD students, offers interactive video lessons on digital literacy starring Garfield the Cat himself. This website gives teachers free access to learning tools and games for teaching digital literacy in their own classrooms. The project and its findings were presented at the 2016 International Society for Technology and Education conference and the 2018 World Conference on E-Learning.
Our Team.
The Professor Garfield Foundation is a non-profit educational collaboration between Ball State University and Paws Inc., the global headquarters for Garfield the Cat. The mission of Professor Garfield is to be a world leader in the direct, free delivery of innovative and motivational digital learning content with a primary emphasis on children’s literacy and creative expression.
