Digital Literacies and University Strategy: Hugh Davis

CENTRE FOR INNOVATIONIN TECHNOLOGIES & EDUCATION

University Strategy and Digital Literacies

March 2014

Hugh Davis @HughDavisProfessor of Learning TechnologiesDirector of EducationDirector of CITEDirector of PDU

HEA: Changing the Learning Landscape - Mobile learning and Bring Your Own Device (BYOD): Gaining better use from familiar technologies and those already owned


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RESEARCHWeb and Internet Science GroupPedagogic & TEL ResearchHorizon Watching

ACADEMIC SERVICESInformation Services (iSolutions)LibraryStudent Services

UNIVERSITY EDUCATIONFacultiesAcademics and Teaching StaffStudents

COMMITTEESTechnology Enhanced Living and Learning (TELL)Education (EAG)University Systems Strategy (USSPB)


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Our students will be equipped to live, thrive, learn, work, collaborate, influence and lead in the increasingly digital and connected world

Part of Educational Strategy?

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We need to develop digital literacies

We must provide learning experiences that encourage DLs

We need a real word learning environment (including own devices)

We must ensure our strategies and policies support the above

Digital Literacies?

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InformationLiteracy

Networks(of People)

Collaboration

SocialNetworking

Communication

Digital Academic Practices

DigitalWorkpractices

Beliefs andPractices

BusinessModels Digital

Citizenship

ICT Skills

Media Literacy

Identity and Reputation

Street Wisdom on the Digital

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EvaluatingAffordances

Finding,evaluating,processing,organising,analysing,presenting

Using applications and services

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InformationLiteracy

Networks(of People)

Collaboration

SocialNetworking

Communication





Citizenship

ICT Skills

Media Literacy



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• The learner is given the stuff via the network• The learner finds stuff on the network• The learner finds stuff from the network (of

people)• The learner is part of the network and

contributes• Stuff• ontology

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InformationLiteracy

Networks(of People)

Collaboration

SocialNetworking

Communication





Citizenship

ICT Skills

Media Literacy



Highway


Digital Literacies are the skills needed to live, learn, work, collaborate, influence and lead in the virtual and digital world

We are preparing students for jobs that don’t yet exist, using work-practices we don’t yet know supported by tools not yet invented.


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VLEs embody outdated views of teaching as “push”

put the teacher at the centre rather than the student or the network

do not integrate with the tools and environments students or lecturers use.

are fundamentally closed - they do not have any understanding of networked learning

lock you in

don’t encourage learners to take responsibility for their own learning, tools or digital literacy

What’s Wrong with VLEs?

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The VLE is Dead – long live the PLE

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Learning has not changed

but expectations of how its done may have

Recent research shows that although students may not be scared of technology and may live in Facebook, they have increasingly naïve understandings of finding and evaluating information

White and Le Cornu suggest a better distinction might be Digital Visitors and Residents

An aside on “Digital Natives” argument

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White, D.S. and Le Cornu, A., ‘Visitors and Residents: A New Typology for Online Engagement’, First Monday, Vol 16 No 9, 5th Sept 2011

How do digital residents behave?

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They have their own toolkits

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Profile

Blogs

Tweets

Web site

Search Engine Recognition

Contributions (e.g SlideShare)

What does the web think of you (pipl.com, zoominfo.com)

Badges and Stars

They build On-line Identity and Reputation

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Using texts?

Using Facebook?

Uing LinkedIn

Using Twitter?

PLN Tools emergingthat use semanticsto connect rightpeople

They have their personal learning networks

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And they have their own devices

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Which theyadminister themselves!

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An Aside on the Mobile Issue

Mobile devices work all day on one battery charge

Issues?

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Most of the time people only want access to the internet (including University intranet sites)

When accessing university systems we need a password challenge (and single sign on)

We already have perfectly good policies for • Acceptable Use• Virus Protection• Password Protection of devices

The problem is they are not enforceable

It’s a social thing!

Policy and Security

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Some of the Issues a University must decide

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How we will support those devices?

What devices we will support?

Who will pay for software / apps required?

If the University supplies hardware, who own it? (whose AppleId etc?)

Which devices can access University systems (as opposed to internet/intranet)?

There will certainly be more discussion about this today.

Plenty of potential to alienate your users!


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Ensure curriculum has real world problems that need real world technology

• Group projects with remote collaborations• Solving authentic problems with authentic data• Digital ethnography• Creating stuff, creating ontology• Simulations

Curriculum

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Summary

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Develop digital literacies

Provide learning experiences that encourage DLs

Ensure students have a real word learning environment (including own devices)

Ensure our strategies and policies support the above

Thank youAny Questions?

Hugh Davis@HughDavishttp://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/[email protected]