mobile and social media: the power of the learning network and digital literacy
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I presented this at MobiLearnAsia 2013 on 2 October, 2013 in Singapore.TRANSCRIPT
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Mobile and Social Media:The power of the learning network and digital literacy
Terese [email protected] Technologist and SCORE Research FellowInstitute of Learning InnovationMobiLearnAsia 2013Singapore2-3 October, 2013 Photo by cindy47452, Flickr
What shall we talk about?
• Digital literacy
• Academic Digital Literacy
• Digital Learning Literacy
• Examples of tools
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http://www.le.ac.uk/manufacturingpasts
Example of digitally-literate research project
Digital Literacy• “Digital literacy is the ability to understand and use information
in multiple formats from a wide range of sources when it is presented via computers.” (Gilster, 1997)
• Technology such as mobile devices and social media are now part of our life and language, and should be included in learning: – 24/7 flexibility & efficiency– Further reach to experts – Ethos and Ethics– Lifelong learning– Careers
Careers
• “As mobile platforms become more complex, employers are increasingly looking for people who can demonstrate a foundation of mobile specific skills and experience to be sure of delivering success.” – CWJobs.co.uk
http://www.v3.co.uk/v3-uk/news/2276691/it-job-seekers-under-pressure-to-learn-mobile-development-skills
Photo by TheDEMO
Conference on Flickr
Academic Digital Literacy• “Knowledge and insight to strategically utilise
the institutional, public social, and various hardware technologies in personal academic learning and research.” TBird
Academic Digital Literacy
• Learning skills
• Research skills
• Social media skills
• Academic digital profile
• New hardware skills (mobile, webcam, microphone, video camera)
• Insight to recognise and utilise benefits of these for own development
Recent research: Manufacturing Pasts
Wordpress
Academic Digital Profile: Cristina Costa on Flickr
The academic research cycle
Social media: A guide for researchers (2011), p15
Historical research tasksON THE INTERNET
• Community• Digital materials• Discover• Disseminate
Sengaw.wordpress.com
What tools to do these tasks?
• Knowledge creation – offline research, blogging
• Discussing – Twitter, Facebook, Google+
• Curating – Scoop.it, Pinterest, Flickr
• Presenting – Prezi, Slideshare
• ‘Advertising’ – all of the above
Private / Professional / Collective Uses
Learning literacy of 1973
• Library search (card catalogue)
• How to take notes
• Citing and referencing
• Numeracy
• Discussion and debate
• Writing (essays and reports)
• Laboratory skills and equipment knowledge
• Presenting (often reading a paper in front of others)
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Learning literacy 2013
• Library search (online and various journal searches)
• How to take notes annotate e-books, recorded lectures
• Citing and referencing articles, blogs, YouTube vids
• Numeracy (including apps, games, programmes)
• Discussion and debate (offline and online)
• Writing (offline and online: blogging, microblogging)
• Laboratory equipment (added technology)
• Presenting (Powerpoint, Prezi, Slideshare, Webinar)
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‘Networked learner’ (Drexler, 2010)
Institutional Environment
Modules: • Documents• Activities
• Admin• Library
Instructor
Student
University Library• Book
s• Eboo
ks
• Subscribed journalsSpecial
collections (digitised)
• Special collections
AsynchronousSharing
knowledge, discussion,
organisation
• Institutional open-access articles, theses
• Articles via Google Scholar• Open
Courseware
• iTunes U• YouTube• TED
Talks
• Slideshare (Presentations)
• LinkedIn (business)
• Academia.edu
• Facebook for learning
• Pinterest/Flickr (Images)
• Twitter (API)
• Scoop.it Curated sites, blog posts, articles, researchSynchronous
Sharing knowledge, discussion,
organisation• Webinar
s • Skype
• Blogging
Digital Learning Literacy(Bird, 2013)
Face-to-face connection
Fellow students
Digital Literacies Development Framework (Beetham, 2013)
Twitter – personal or collective account
Twitter• Follow experts
• Ask a question, get answers from experts
• Get ideas
• Hottest news (use the search)
• ‘Faster’ than email
• Announcements
• ‘New post’ tweets
• Include the world
• Attend conference virtually
Facebook - Page
Facebook – Group
Wikipedia – no promotion allowed
Vimeo – longer than 10 minutes
Slideshare (‘Slideshare tbirdcymru’) for these slides
Academia.edu
Feeling overwhelmed? Try one new thing“No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow
you progress, you are still way ahead of everyone who isn’t trying.”
-- Tony Robbins
Thank you! –Terese Bird [email protected]
• Beetham, H. (2013). The Design Studio / Literacies development framework.doc. The Design Studio Wiki. Retrieved October 02, 2013, from http://jiscdesignstudio.pbworks.com/w/file/40474958/Literacies development framework.doc
• Cann, A. J., Dimitriou, K., & Hooley, T. (2011). Social media: A guide for researchers | Research Information Network. Retrieved from http://www.rin.ac.uk/our-work/communicating-and-disseminating-research/social-media-guide-researchers
• Drexler, W. (2010). AJET 26(3) Drexler (2010) - The networked student model for construction of personal learning environments: Balancing teacher control and student autonomy. Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 26(3). Retrieved from http://www.ascilite.org.au/ajet/ajet26/drexler.html
• Gilster, P. (1997). digital literacy (1st ed.). New York: John Wiley & Sons.