1. Digital literacies in your workplace
Myles Danson (Jisc)
Phil Wolstenholme & Catherine Lillie (AUA)
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2. Welcome and aims
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3. • understand the breadth of Jisc digital literacy work
• explore digital literacies administrators need to be
successful in their current roles and beyond
• describe how AUA and Jisc support the development of
these capabilities, and generate ideas on how they could
better support them
• identify priorities for action once back in the office
In order to
• help achieve an excellent digital experience for all
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4. Digital literacy defines those capabilities which fit an individual
for living, learning and working in a digital society
• Jisc and their digital literacies programme
http://bit.ly/jisc_digi_lit
• What AUA are trying to achieve in the area
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5. Let’s get moving!
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6. Please introduce yourself at your table
• Tell everyone your name, work area and one digital device
or service you could not live without
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7. Quick round of feedback
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8. A digitally literate administrator –
what does one of those look like?
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9. At your table, take 10 minutes to:
• Draw your administrator (or a representative something)!
• Label your drawing with the qualities and attributes you
would expect of someone with ‘digital literacy and the
ability to use ICT effectively’ as an administrator
• You might consider: devices, services and software;
strategies and preferences for ICT use; attitudes towards
technology; communication and networking habits; digital
identity; time and task management……
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10. Jisc and Digital Literacy
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11. ‘capabilities that fit an individual for living, learning and working in a
digital society’
• ICT/Computer Literacy: the ability to adopt, adapt and use digital
devices, applications and services in pursuit of scholarly and
educational goals.
• Information Literacy: the ability to
find, interpret, evaluate, manipulate, share and record
information, especially scholarly and educational information
• Media Literacy: the ability to critically read and creatively produce
academic and professional communications in a range of media.
• Communication and Collaboration: the ability to participate in digital
networks and working groups of scholarship, research and learning
• Learning Skills: the ability to study and learn effectively in technologyrich environments, formal and informal
• Digital scholarship: the ability to participate in emerging
academic, professional and research practices that depend on digital
systems
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12. The digitally literate workforce
• Is flexible, confident and capable of selecting appropriate
digital tools, services and networks for effective personal and
professional use to
• Manage time and tasks
• Discuss and collaborate
• Find relevant information
• Organise their ideas
• Create new representations of subject matter
• Practice skills
• Record aspects of their CPD
• Participate in social/professional networks
• Project a positive digital identify or profile
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13. Revisit your drawings
Consider whether you need to add (or take away/modify) features
of your digitally literate administrator and finalise your
representations now
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14. Feedback as plenary
Photo opportunity
If we have time – present each ‘in just a minute’
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15. We know that forward thinking universities are
• Embedding digital literacy issues into high level strategies
• Building on existing/past change initiatives
• Engaging students as partners and change agents
• Moving towards a ‘bring your own device/service’ model with
appropriate support
• Enabling a diversity of digital practices to flourish
• Designing learning spaces to support networked learning
• Making expectations clear, raising awareness, and signposting
resources
• Investing (time/support) in the digital CPD of staff
• Supporting, valuing and rewarding digital pioneers
• Embedding authentic digital activities into courses
• Supporting digital scholarship
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16. Now we want to know what you think
Working in groups decide on some key actions to help you
enhance and embed digital literacies into your work;
• What should teams, leaders, departments, your university as a
whole do to support staff in their roles?
• What could the AUA do to help?
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17. AUA and digital literacies
Live walk through of AUA resources created to date and offer to
attendees
Attendees to capture pertinent ones for their diagrams on post it
notes
Stick post it notes to posters
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18. AUA digital skills page
• Introductory resources
• Getting started
• Online networking
• http://www.aua.ac.uk/career-9
(or search for:‘digital skills’)
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19. AUA Digital Toolbox
• External sites and services
• More depth /detail
• Categorised by area and
professional behaviour
• http://www.aua.ac.uk (or
search for:‘digital toolbox’)
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20. A few favourites
• Google Drive (formerly Docs)
– collaborative working, quick
forms
• Dropbox – sync, backup files
• Evernote – note taking, CPD
portfolio
• Doodle – meeting planning
• Jisc netskills guides – under
training, then ‘share’ on netskills
site.
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21. Jisc and digital literacies
Quick look at Jisc plans for communication outputs….
Jisc shortcuts for AUA Development Conference attendees
http://bit.ly/aua-jisc-shortcuts-oct13
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22. Action Planning
Write down what three things you will do as a result of what
we’ve learned today
Shout out one from each table?
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23. © Jisc 2013
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