We're excited for You to join us at san josé state university for the digital literacy summit.
Preparing for the Summit
Below is information about travel, the Summit agenda, our plenary speaker, key contacts, and more, so please scroll through. Our goals for the Summit will be to develop shared goals and understandings, build community together, and get ourselves in a good position to launch CSU + Adobe for All projects as soon as we head home. We hope you'll have chances to learn new things, see potential models, experience some of what your students will experience, and walk away with new ideas and fresh excitement!
Travel to San José
If you are flying, San josé international airport (sjc) is your best bet.
Other local airports, including SFO and OAK are at least a 45-60 minute drive from San José State University.
You can also arrive by amtrak or cal-train to diridon station. bart services san josé's Berryessa / North San Jose station.
Diridon Station is approximately 1.6 miles from SJSU's campus. The Berryessa/North San Jose BART station is approximately 3 miles. The Rapid 500 bus travels from the BART station to SJSU in approximately 20 minutes.
driving is another option. however, it will be significantly harder to arrive by ocean liner, hot air balloon, or pack animal (owing to parking restrictions).
Recommended Hotels
Four Points by Sheraton San Jose Downtown
Hotel Website Average Nightly Room Rate: $208 - $269 6 Minute Walk to Campus
The Westin San Jose
Hotel Website Average Nightly Room Rate: $239 - $269 6 Minute Walk to Campus
San Jose Marriott
Hotel Website Average Nightly Room Rate: $364 - $429 8 Minute Walk to Campus
Signia by Hilton San Jose
Hotel Website Average Nightly Room Rate: $348 - $436 9 Minute Walk to Campus
Hyatt Place San Jose/Downtown
Hotel Website Average Nightly Room Rate: $169 - $206 16 Minute Walk to Campus
Hotel De Anza
Hotel Website Average Nightly Room Rate: $220 - $250 18 Minute Walk to Campus
Things to see
Our official time together will be pretty tightly scheduled, but if you arrive early, leave late, or find yourself with some free time in San José, below are some local favorites.
Tourist destinations
Food and Drink
Culture
- Municipal Rose Garden
- San José Civic Auditorium
- San José Giants (minor league baseball)
- San José Museum of Art
- SAP Center
- SoFA District
A word of awareness about Downtown san josé
San José is one of the safest major cities in the country, but it’s still a major metropolitan area with all the affordances and potential risks of any city center. We don’t recommend that you navigate the city with fear or trepidation, but we do recommend care and attention.
Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Pre-work before the Summit
There will be some pre-work that everyone will need to complete before arriving at the Summit. More information coming soon!
Plenary
Designing for Risk: Putting Relationships at the Center of Technology Integration
Angela Laflen, Sacramento State University
Adobe tools, multimodal assignments, and digital storytelling initiatives promise to expand what students can create and how they can think. These projects invite experimentation and reward creativity. But creativity requires risk, and risk requires trust. In this keynote, Angela Laflen argues that technology cannot produce transformation on its own. Drawing on qualitative research with 270 students navigating emerging technologies, this talk explores how new technologies can intensify faculty–student tensions rather than relieve them. If overwhelmed faculty default to policing rather than coaching, students can retreat into strategic silence. The success of any technology initiative depends on cultivating the relational conditions that make risk feel possible. Laflen offers practical strategies for building pedagogical trust and invites attendees to consider how prioritizing relationships might strengthen their own projects. Technology intensifies the existing relational climate in a classroom. This keynote is an invitation to ensure the foundation we design is one worth building on.
Summit Leadership Team
Key Contacts
For questions about the CSU + Adobe for All program or curriculum, please contact Ryan Skinnell (ryan.skinnell@sjsu.edu). For questions about Adobe, please contact Todd Taylor (ttaylor@adobe.com). For questions about the transfer, organization, and spending of funds from the CSU to your home campus, please contact Leslie Kennedy (lkennedy@calstate.edu).
Credits:
Created with images by Daniel Prudek - "Ama Dablam on the way to Everest Base Camp" • valiantsin - "Agenda word on yellow background with copy space for text." • nose - "a whimsical arrangement of origami stars and a crescent moon against a dark background" • Nicholas - "white city skyline paper sculpture long panorama background layout." • Alexey - "Panoramic View of Silicon Valley., Hiking Trail at Mission Peak."