Prepare Students for a Digital World That Is Changing Faster Than the Classroom
Practical AI literacy, digital readiness, and career preparation workshops for college students — and the faculty who support them.
Schnelle Acevedo
Founder, BAM Digital Media
Digital Readiness Is Now a College Success Skill
Students are expected to research online, communicate professionally, use artificial intelligence appropriately, evaluate information, and protect their digital identities — while preparing for careers being rapidly reshaped by technology.
Many students have never received formal instruction in these skills.
- They already know how to use technology. The question is whether they know how to use it strategically, responsibly, and confidently.
- AI tools are being used in coursework without the critical thinking skills to verify, evaluate, or apply them effectively.
- Digital footprints are forming before students understand what they mean for future opportunities.
- Attention and focus are increasingly difficult in environments designed to compete for both.
“Students are navigating AI, misinformation, and digital distraction every single day — without a roadmap. BAM Digital Media workshops give them one.”
BAM Digital Media workshops bridge the gap between how students use technology and how they need to use it — combining digital literacy, career readiness, AI education, media literacy, and real-world experience into sessions students can immediately apply.
Workshops are interactive, accessible, and designed around the digital environments students actually navigate every day.
Campus Workshops for Students
Six focused workshops — each addressing a dimension of digital life that directly impacts academic success, career readiness, and personal wellbeing.
Workshop 01
AI Literacy for College Success
How to use AI effectively while developing the judgment to recognize its limitations. Covers responsible use, prompting, verification, research support, hallucinations, bias, academic integrity, and practical AI workflows for learning.
Ideal For
First-Year Experience, academic success programs, libraries, orientation, TRIO programs, student affairs
Workshop 02
AI & Career Readiness
How AI is changing careers and practical ways to use emerging tools for research, brainstorming, job preparation, and professional development. Addresses the human skills that become more valuable as AI becomes more capable.
Ideal For
Career centers, workforce development, business schools, senior seminars, internship programs
Workshop 03
Build Your Professional Digital Presence
How to think intentionally about how students appear online. LinkedIn, search results, professional digital identity, showcasing skills, and building an online presence that supports future opportunities — before an employer meets them in person.
Ideal For
Career services, graduating seniors, internship programs, communications programs, student leadership
Workshop 04
Misinformation, Algorithms & Your Digital World
How algorithms influence attention, information, opinions, and behavior. Echo chambers, misinformation, AI-generated content, source verification, and practical techniques for evaluating what students encounter online.
Ideal For
Libraries, journalism programs, communications departments, first-year seminars, general education
Workshop 05
Digital Wellness & Reclaiming Your Attention
Practical strategies for becoming more intentional with technology. Digital distraction, attention management, doomscrolling, sleep habits, notification design, social media habits, and building healthier relationships with screens.
Ideal For
Student wellness, residence life, counseling initiatives, orientation, student affairs
Workshop 06
Cybersecurity & Digital Privacy
Practical cybersecurity habits students can use immediately — password security, phishing awareness, scams, account protection, privacy settings, personal information management, and recognizing common digital threats.
Ideal For
Orientation, residence life, campus technology initiatives, libraries, student success programs
Workshops for Faculty & Staff
Students are navigating a changing digital environment. Faculty are navigating it too. BAM Digital Media provides professional development designed to help higher education professionals use emerging technology thoughtfully and practically — including AI tools, prompting strategies, academic integrity conversations, NotebookLM, and designing learning experiences for an AI-supported world.
Programs Can Be Customized for Your Campus
Every institution has different goals. Programming is customized around your students, department, learning outcomes, and campus priorities — not delivered as a one-size-fits-all module.
60–90 Minutes
Focused Workshop
Engaging sessions for campus programming, classes, orientation, professional development, and student events.
Multi-Session
Workshop Series
A Digital Readiness or AI Literacy series for students throughout the semester — sustained learning with deeper impact.
Half-Day or Full-Day
Faculty Professional Development
Customized professional learning experiences for departments, faculty senate, or teaching and learning centers.
Orientation
Orientation Programming
Digital readiness sessions built for first-year and transfer student orientation — setting students up with AI literacy, cybersecurity habits, and digital wellness strategies from day one.
What Students Walk Away With
Students leave workshops with more than information. Depending on the program, participants may leave with:
The goal: help students become more capable decision-makers in the digital environments shaping their education, careers, and lives.
Who We Partner With
Schnelle Acevedo
Schnelle Acevedo is the founder of BAM Digital Media, a Brooklyn-based digital literacy education company helping students, families, educators, and organizations navigate today’s digital world with greater confidence.
Her work draws from more than 15 years of experience in digital publishing, content creation, digital strategy, curriculum development, and education. She has spent years working inside the online platforms, creator systems, algorithms, search environments, and AI tools students are now being asked to understand — and her workshops translate that experience into practical learning students can use.
- Founder of BAM Digital Media LLC — NYC & NYS MWBE Certified
- 15+ years as a professional digital publisher and content creator
- Creator of Smart With Screens® — nationally licensed digital literacy curriculum
- Host of the Smart With Screens podcast
- Continuing professional learning through Google for Education and Microsoft Education
- Master’s in Public Administration · BFA in Creative Writing
Digital Literacy Cannot Be Taught as a List of Warnings About Technology
Students need opportunities to understand the systems influencing their digital lives — and to practice making thoughtful decisions inside those systems.
Real-World Digital Experience
More than a decade of hands-on experience in digital publishing, content creation, online audience development, and emerging technology — not theory from a distance.
Education-Centered Programming
Workshops are designed around learning outcomes rather than technology demonstrations. Every session connects to something students can apply.
Current, Relevant Topics
Programs address AI, algorithms, digital identity, cybersecurity, misinformation, career readiness, and digital wellness — updated regularly to reflect what students are actually navigating.
Practical Application
Students leave with strategies and tools they can immediately apply to school, work, and everyday digital life — not slides to forget.
BAM Digital Media LLC provides AI literacy workshops for colleges and universities, including sessions on digital readiness for college students, professional digital presence, misinformation and algorithms, cybersecurity, and digital wellness. Faculty professional development programs cover practical AI tools, prompting strategies, academic integrity in the age of generative AI, and designing learning for an AI-supported world. Available for career services, First-Year Experience, student affairs, TRIO programs, libraries, and residence life. Programming is customized for each campus. Serving higher education institutions in New York and nationally through virtual delivery.
Bring AI & Digital Readiness Education to Your Students
Whether you’re planning orientation, First-Year Experience programming, career readiness events, faculty development, digital wellness initiatives, or an AI literacy series — programming can be customized around your campus goals.