Digital Literacies and University Strategy: Hugh Davis presentation at HEA Workshop on BYOD

1. University Strategy and Digital
Literacies
HEA: Changing the Learning Landscape - Mobile learning and
Bring Your Own Device (BYOD): Gaining better use from familiar
technologies and those already owned
Hugh Davis
@HughDavis
Professor of Learning Technologies
Director of Education
Director of CITE
Director of PDU
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2. CITE
UNIVERSITY EDUCATION
Faculties
Academics and Teaching Staff
Students
RESEARCH
Web and Internet Science Group
Pedagogic & TEL Research
Horizon Watching
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Technology Enhanced Living and
Learning (TELL)
Education (EAG)
University Systems Strategy (USSPB)
ACADEMIC SERVICES
Information Services (iSolutions)
Library
Student Services
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3. Part of Educational Strategy?
Our students will be equipped to live,
thrive, learn, work, collaborate, influence
and lead in the increasingly digital and
connected world
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
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4. Digital Literacies?
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5. Finding,
evaluating,
processing,
organising,
analysing,
presenting
Beliefs and
Practices
Street Wisdom
on the Digital
Highway
Business
Models
Digital
Citizenship
Using applications
and services
Digital
Workpractices
Information
Literacy
Digital Academic
Practices
ICT
Skills
Identity and
Reputation
Communication
Media
Literacy
Social
Networking
Collaboration
Networks
(of People)
Evaluating
Affordances
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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
Business • ontology
Beliefs and
Practices
Street Wisdom
on the Digital
Highway
Models
Digital
Citizenship
Digital
Workpractices
Information
Literacy
Digital Academic
Practices
ICT
Skills
Identity and
Reputation
Communication
Media
Literacy
Social
Networking
Collaboration
Networks
(of People)
Evaluating
Affordances
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7. Digital Literacies are the skills needed to live, learn, work, collaborate,
influence and lead in the virtual and digital world
Beliefs and
Practices
Street Wisdom
on the Digital
Highway
Business
Models
Digital
Citizenship
Digital
Workpractices
Information
Literacy
Digital Academic
Practices
ICT
Skills
Identity and
Reputation
Communication
Media
Literacy
Social
Networking
Collaboration
Networks
(of People)
We are preparing students for jobs that don‟t yet exist, using work-practices we
Evaluating
don‟t yet know supported by tools not yet invented.
Affordances
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8. What’s Wrong with VLEs?
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
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9. The VLE is Dead – long live the PLE
(above image is from a generator at http://generator.kitt.net/) (Thanks Dave Millard)
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10. An aside on “Digital Natives” argument
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
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
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11. How do digital
residents behave?
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12. They have their own toolkits
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13. They build On-line Identity and Reputation
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
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14. They have their personal learning networks
Using texts?
Using Facebook?
Uing LinkedIn
Using Twitter?
PLN Tools emerging
that use semantics
to connect right
people
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15. And they have their own devices
kindle
Which they
administer
themselves!
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16. An Aside on the Mobile Issue
Mobile devices
work all day on
one battery charge
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17. Issues?
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18. Policy and Security
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
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Acceptable Use
Virus Protection
Password Protection of devices
The problem is they are not enforceable
It‟s a social thing!
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19. Some of the Issues a University must decide
How we will
support those
devices?
What devices we
will support?
Who will pay for
software / apps
required?
Which devices can
access University
systems (as opposed
to internet/intranet)?
If the University supplies
hardware, who own it?
(whose AppleId etc?)
There will certainly
be more discussion
about this today.
Plenty of potential to alienate your users!
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20. Curriculum
Ensure curriculum has real world problems that need real world
technology
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Group projects with remote collaborations
Solving authentic problems with authentic data
Digital ethnography
Creating stuff, creating ontology
Simulations
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21. Summary
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
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Thank you
Any Questions?
Hugh Davis
@HughDavis
http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/hcd
hcd@soton.ac.uk
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