Please be informed that there is an SSE event happening at both campuses during the afternoon of Friday, June 14. This means all the full-time staff from the SWEL offices, TAS, and Athletics will be unavailable. Most services will remain open during this time, however.

SWEL Offices including Health Services, Counselling, Accessible Learning Services, Student Connection and Community Care, Residence Life, and Testing Services will be closed as of noon on June 14 for the day.

As you may have noticed, Humber’s homepage has changed. As part of ongoing DXP work, there will be incremental updates to our homepage that align with feedback received during the process. These changes will streamline and curate content, focus on search, connect with in-market campaigns and reduce the length of the homepage. Updates will be interim steps before the new homepage and website is launched and demonstrates the direction of the new site. Visit the updated homepage at www.humber.ca.

When we launched the Academic and Digital Campus Plans together a year ago, we did so to underscore the important connection between our academic mission and technology. Digital Fluency is one of the major intersections of the work of these two plans.  

This work is focused on what is necessary for the success of our people – both learners, graduates, and employees. Many individuals within our community were consulted on how to articulate digital fluency for Humber, and we also conducted environmental scans of 234 Canadian and 35 U.S. institutions, along with global institutions, to identify best practices.  

Following this, a Digital Fluency Framework was developed and 163 digital initiatives and resources already available across Humber were catalogued to help support institutional capacity building and professional development. 

One of the important findings of our work so far is that developing or strengthening digital fluency should be done as a collaborative community. To achieve success, it needs to be a shared process in which individuals each seek to learn and bring back insights to their team to help move Humber forward.  

For learners, there is the perception that since many of them grew up with technology, they know how to use the digital tools they encounter in their academic journey at Humber. The reality is there is wide diversity of familiarity with digital tools for study and work and that we need a strategic approach to helping learners develop the digital skills they need for success. Digital fluency skills enable individuals to confidently balance and navigate the use of digital tools, manage data and content, and communicate in digital and online professional communities. 

Our ways of teaching, learning and working are evolving, and we need to ensure that our learners and employees have the resilience to adapt as technology changes as well as the ability to engage in the digital workplace effectively and ethically. 

Next Steps 

• We will transform the Digital Fluency Framework into a dynamic website to support the visibility of the framework and provide a hub for the resources that will support the development of digital fluency across the college.  
• We will integrate the Digital Fluency Framework into the talent management practices within People(s) and Culture for application across Humber.  
• We are preparing to test a new action plan that will support teams to assess and develop digital fluency capacity and training needs. Once the action plan is completed, we will begin testing it within designated teams.  

In the coming days and weeks, we will continue sharing the progress made in year one of the Academic and Digital Campus Plans.  

We are excited to invite you to Barrett CTI's STEAM Summer Camp, designed to foster creativity and innovation in children and youths ages 8-18. Our camp offers a blend of STEAM activities, outdoor adventures, and leadership development, inspiring a love for learning and exploration.

Camp Details:

Schedule (Monday to Friday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.):

• STEAM Engineers: 15-18 years old from July 15-19
• STEAM Innovators: 11-14 years old from July 22-26
• STEAM Engineers: 15-18 years old from July 29-August 2
• STEAM Pioneers: 8-10 years old from August 6-9

Location: 

Humber College North Campus and Barrett Centre for Technology Innovation. Enjoy incredible facilities, including state-of-the-art robotics equipment, an arboretum, and a sports gymnasium.

Humber staff receive a 10 per cent discount. Please email jener.gurrea@humber.ca for more information.

Registration

Please note: Lunch and transportation are not included. Join us for an unforgettable summer experience!

Contact info:

askbarrettcti@humber.ca
416.675.6622 x75766