Originally presented in Cincinnati, Ohio, at the annual conference of the Great Lakes Association of College and University Housing Officers in November of 2016. This session provides a overview of college student learning in digital contexts as well as suggested draft learning outcomes to guide in education around digital issues.
4. 89%
of adults 18-29 years old use social media
67%
access it on mobile
98%
of adults ages 18-29 are on the internet
70
70
70
43%
60%
89%
65+
50-64
30-49
70
78% 18-29
social media use
by age
younger generations
are using the internet,
social media, and mobile
technologies at a high rate
6. Digitized Development
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is the underlying developmental
processes that inform how we
understand ourselves and our
behavior in digital spaces.
Digitized development can carry
unique properties from offline
development.
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10. Student explores and experiments
openly with social media. This is
strongly influenced by authorities
(parents/guardians) through access
and peers through peer culture.
Student does not understand how
online and offline interactions can
impact each other or possess a
sophisticated understanding of
context.
Student makes conscious choices about
social media usage and how it fits into life
desires, outlook, and goals.
Student realizes that one’s online life
requires constant renegotiation as one’s
goals, needs, contexts, and
circumstances change.
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37. Digital Reputation
One’s digital reputation is how one is viewed by others based on the
information that can be found online. Digital reputations can be
curated and actions can be taken or avoided in order to craft a
desired reputation.
• Describe their current digital reputation.
• Describe what they want their digital reputations to be.
• Explain how actions and posts can influence one’s digital reputation.
• Analyze how their current digital reputation is reflective (or not) of the
reputation they want.
• Develop a plan for crafting a desired digital reputation.
• Repeatedly critique and adjust their digital reputations as necessary.
38. Digital Literacy
Digital literacy is the ability to consume and apply critical thinking
skills to information and news found online. It entails the ability to
identify and evaluate the credibility of digital content.
• Identify and evaluate reputable and accurate sources for online
news and information.
• Identify phishing and other online scams and questionable activity.
• Investigate the veracity and sources of digital information, news,
and rumors.
• Evaluate one’s own role in consuming and sharing reputable
information.
• Produce and share digital content that is researched and vetted.
39. Digital Citizenship
Digital citizenship skills include the ability to interact with others civilly, and
towards productive ends. Digital citizens respect the rights of others,
understand issues of ethics and privacy, and laws governing online
behaviors.
• Apply social media skills for activism and the public good.
• Identify and intervene when individuals are indicating self-harm or
damaging behaviors online.
• Produce and share digital content that respects copyright and enhances
dialogue.
• Explain the nature of privacy online and the types of information that is
collected and shared online.
• Change one’s privacy settings and modify behaviors to fit one’s desired
level of engagement online.
40. Digital Communication
Being able to successfully communicate on digital
platforms includes the ability to engage in dialogue with
others in a constructive and mutually beneficial way.
•Recognize civil behaviors online and the effects of uncivil
behavior.
•Use and post to social media in a reflective and
responsible way.
•Demonstrate how to engage in dialogue across difference
online and employ strategies to manage conflict.
41. Digital Collaboration
Collaboration online requires an awareness of appropriate
tools, how to use these tools, and how to set goals and tasks
that allow for all to participate.
•Identify collaborative online tools that enable one to
accomplish tasks.
•Demonstrate the ability to use collaborative features of
software to achieve personal and shared goals.
•Apply information and engage others in the wider digital
world to group tasks, problems, and solutions.
•Plan and organize teams and teamwork online.