Hiller A. SpiresHiller Spires , who has been on the NC State faculty since 1986, is a Professor of Literacy and Technology in the Department of Teacher Education and Learning Sciences. She received her Ph.D. in literacy education with a cognate in English from the Uiversity of South Carolina. She served as the founding director of The William and Ida Friday Institute for Educational Innovation from 2002-2006 and currently serves as FI Senior Research Fellow. Dr. Spires received NC State's Outstanding Alumni Award in Outreach and Service for providing professional development seminars for K-12 teachers in NC. In 2011 she received NC State’s Jackson A. Rigney International Service Award for her work with Chinese teachers and students. In 2012, she received NC State's Alumni Graduate Professor Award. Dr. Spires studies the integration of emerging technologies in order to illustrate research-based, best practices for digital literacy learning. She co-directs the Friday Institute’s New Literacies Collaborative (newlit.org). She helped create a state-of-the-art high school in Suzhou, China. See the documentary at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCk79xVNHls. Read More Read Less