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Embedding Digital Skills into Education – Increasing Employability and Lifetime Prospects Sue Beckingham | @suebecks | Sheffield Hallam University Inside Government Digital Inclusion 2014: Ensuring the Delivery of ‘Digital by Default’

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Page 1: Embedding Digital Skills into Education – Increasing Employability and Lifetime Prospects

Embedding Digital Skills into Education – Increasing Employability and Lifetime Prospects

Sue Beckingham | @suebecks | Sheffield Hallam University

Inside Government Digital Inclusion 2014: Ensuring the Delivery of ‘Digital by Default’

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• develop confident face to face and online communication skills1

• work collaboratively both synchronously and asynchronously2

• develop a professional online presence 3• use digital tools responsibly and

effectively4

We want our students and graduates to

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What do we mean by digital?

“What is at stake isn’t just great technology and innovation, it’s about helping people to

build their own future”

"By ‘digital’, we mean content or communication that is delivered through the internet – whether the user is on a desktop

computer, laptop, tablet, mobile phone or a digital device not yet invented."

Prime Minister David Cameron

DFID 2012

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Using digital tools to develop confident communication skills

Students created digital 'About Me' videos.

Choice of: video to camera (the majority used their own mobile phones) or a screencast with voiceover

Example used http://www.screencast-o-matic.com/

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Online group meetings and interview simulation

Google Hangouts or Skype meetings were captured using screencast-o-matic. Students then embedded the

videos into their individual reflective journals.

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Developing digital collaboration skills

Students used Google Drive to record group meeting minutes and agendas, writing reports, diagrams and more. This was done both synchronously and asynchronously.

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Student led digital newsletters and how to guides

http://shutech.wordpress.com/

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shu.ac.uk/venturematrix

Working with real clientsStudents also develop employability skills such as communication, time-management, project management, relationship building, confidence and professionalism

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Developing digital skills to enhance graduate employment prospects

Understanding the value of a professional

online presence

Being aware of the negative

implications of thoughtless

open sharing online

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Raise awareness that social media interactions leave digital footprints…

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93% of recruiters are likely to look at a candidate’s social profile (Jobvite 2013). Employers may reject those that come across in a negative light

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Discussing the implications of a negative digital

footprint

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Students can access these four resources at http://go.shu.ac.uk/socialmedia

Creating guidance for students

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30,000,000 are students and recent graduates

There were 5.7 billion professionally-oriented searches undertaken by LinkedIn members on the platform in 2012 alone

Understanding the value of

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LinkedIn workshops

Creating a positive impression

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ConnectCommunicateSeek information

Personal profile | Groups | Company pages

Help othersCollaborate

Share information

Manage your professional identityLook for job opportunities

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Understanding the potential of 2nd and 3rd degree connections

Reid Hoffman 2012 LinkedIn

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Potential to share:blogs, web folios, presentations, project work, e-portfolios

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The Networked Learner

Alec Couros 2008

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The Learner

experiences

inquiry based

learning

questions

problem based

learning

interests

work based learning

community

family

academics

peers

workplace

Connected Learning

flexi

ble

lear

ning

formal learning no

n-fo

rmal

lear

ning

informal learning

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Maximise the potential affordances of digital technology

Mobile learning

Place-based learning

Self-directed learning

Competency-based

learning

Social learning

Active learning

Personal learning networks

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The advances in mobile technology afford us with numerous apps to

connect, communicate and collaborate

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https://edshelf.com/profile/suebecks/

Create your own digital toolbox

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Filtering through my personal learning network

Twitter

LinkedIn

Google+

Blogs

Key Social Spaces for Online Learning (SSOL)

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Designing your PLN

• Low profile • Low communication

• High profile • Low communication

• Low profile • High

communication

• High profile• High

communication

Adapted from Joyce Seitzinger

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Global digital connectedness

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Research

Guidance

Training and skills

Events and conferences

Publications

Leadership development

Business engagement

Community engagement

Digital connections share information and opportunities

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Critical analysis and evaluation

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Ongoing digital skills development

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Digital Inclusion

BYOD (Bring your own devices)

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futurelab 2010:19

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Digital literacy anatomised: access, skills and practices

(JISC 2011)

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Digital literacy anatomised: practices in context

(JISC 2011)

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Embedding Digital Skills into Education Increasing Employability and Lifetime

Prospects

Sue Beckingham | @suebecksSheffield Hallam University

http://socialmedia4us.wordpress.com/