Presentation on the dynamic digital landscape, digital citizenship, digital literacies, digital futures - collaborative research network

1. Digital Opportunities in
Agriculture
Partners Influencing Digital
Productivity: Agriculture
November 22, 2013
Professor Mike Keppell
Executive Director
Australian Digital Futures Institute
Director, Digital Futures - CRN

2. Overview
nDynamic
nDigital
landscape
citizenship
nFacilitating
nVirtual
mobility
extension
nConnected
learning

3. Dynamic Landscape

4. Horizon Report

5. Will 3D Printing Change the World?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5AZzOw7FwA

7. Connectivism
‣
Knowledge has changed to
networks and ecologies
(Siemens, 2006).
‣
Need improved lines of
communication in networks.
‣
“Connectivism is the assertion
that learning is primarily a
network-forming process” (p.
15).

9. Digital Citizenship

10. What is Digital Identity?
n Safe
and engaged digital
citizenship
n Appropriate
and responsible
technology use
n Digital
wellness
n http://digitalcitizenship.net/
Home_Page.html

11. What is Digital Identity?
n How
you portray,
represent yourself
online
n Rich
ways of
communication
n Digital
etiquette
n Digital
ethics

12. Digital Identity Spaces

17. Digital Footprints

18. I can see a day in the not too
distant future (if it’s not
already here) where your
“digital footprint” will carry
far more weight than
anything you might include in
a resume or CV (Betcher,
2009)
!
http://chrisbetcher.com/tag/
digitalfootprint/

19. Digital Literacies

20. Rapport with technology
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXV-yaFmQNk

21. Digital Literacies
n Literacy
is no longer “the
ability to read and write”
but now “the ability to
understand
information however
presented.”

22. Wheeler Digital Literacies
n
Social networking skills
n
Transliteracy skills
n
Maintaining Privacy
n
Managing Identity
n
Creating content
n
Organising and sharing content
n
Reusing/repurposing content
n
Filtering and selecting content
n
!
!
Self broadcasting
http://steve-wheeler.blogspot.co.uk/2010/11/what-digital-literacies.html

24. http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/

25. Europe - Digital Agenda
Scoreboard 2012
n
73% of EU 27 households had access to the internet
n
A lack of skills is the second most important reason
for not having access to the internet
n
Only 53% of the labour force - confident that they
had sufficient digital skills to change jobs.
n
Age, gender, and education remain the key
challenges. Older people, women, those with lower
levels of education tend to have lower level digital
skills.
n
http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/sites/digitalagenda/files/scoreboard_digital_skills.pdf
!
!
!

26. Literacy is a contested
concept
n There
is currently no universally accepted
definition of media literacy, information
literacy, digital literacy, or even of “media”
itself.
n The
digital divide is much more than a
‘technology access’ divide; without the skills
to use the technologies an even greater
divide emerges – the information literacy
divide.
n
http://www.unesco.org/new/fileadmin/MULTIMEDIA/HQ/CI/CI/pdf/
unesco_mil_indicators_background_document_2011_final_en.pdf

27. Digital Futures Collaborative Research
Network
!

28. Research Capacity Building
Partnership with ANU & UniSA
$5.1 million
91 Researchers
5 projects
Leadership Development Program

31. Project 1: Facilitating Mobility
n Developing an evaluation
framework for mobile learning
!
Goal: This project will form the
foundation for a program of research in
mobile learning that will support
exploration of the changing nature of
learning in a connected age.

33. Project 3: Virtual Extension
n Investigating
the impact of a webbased, 'discussion-support',
agricultural-climate information system
on Australian farmers' operational
decision making
n Goal:
To develop and test the
effectiveness of a technology rich
learning environment to help farmers
make complex decisions around
climate risk management.

34. Supporting Decision-Making in the Sugar Industry
with Integrated Seasonal Climate Forecasting
Roger C Stone1
Shahbaz Mushtaq1 Torben Marcussen 1
Yvette Everingham2
Neil Cliffe1
Lynda Brunton 1
1. ACSC, University of Southern Queensland (USQ) , Toowoomba, Australia;
2. James Cook University (JCU), Townsville, Australia
Introduction
The Australian sugar industry is strongly influenced by both the
impacts of daily weather and also seasonal climate variation. The success
of the sugar industry depends heavily on capitalising on the opportunities
and minimising the risks associated with climate variability along the
supply chain.
The excessive rainfall events and climate of the 2010/11 season have
highlighted the critical need for improvement in more consistent and
reliable delivery of accurate and useful climate forecasts with the aim of
minimising the risks associated with sugar delivery and harvest
management along the supply chain.
Sugar production in Australia mainly occurs in discontinuous regions
spanning 2100 km along the coast of eastern Australia within 50 km of the
coastline. This region experiences extreme seasonal and annual variability
in temperature and rainfall. Much of this inter-annual variability is due to
the Pacific Ocean El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) phenomenon.
The ability to more precisely forecast the extremes in our seasonal
climate patterns for all key sugar growing regions and to fully develop
knowledge on how this relates to industry planning is of vital practical
and financial importance to the Australian sugar industry.
Research objectives
Harvested cane forecasting
Develop appropriate climate forecast methods
that also incorporate utilization of a discounted
Targeted climate forecasting for key sugar
producing regions
Provision of regularly appraised and improved
Targeted support tools and systems
Development of appropriate decision support planning tools
for 'harmonising' sugarcane harvesting management along

36. Project 5: Connected Learning
n Agricultural
n
Identifying opportunities and ways forward
n Intelligent
n
knowledge management
Using technology to collate and synthesize
existing farm data to inform decision making
n Intelligent
n
digital literacy
eExtension
Using farm input data to profile information needs
(Known/Unknown) on farm – improved extension
services tailored to needs

37. National Centre for Engineering in Agriculture

38. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7FIvfx5J10

39. The Digital Rural Futures Conference 2014
Hosted by the University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba
25 – 27 June 2014
Regional Futures - maintaining healthy, resilient and vibrant regional
communities.
Agricultural Futures - increasing productivity, sustainable use of resources and
embracing digital technologies to optimise Australia’s farming future.
Digital Futures – building capacity to design and utilise emerging digital
technologies and embrace their opportunities
The conference is a Regional Universities Network (RUN) initiative
For more information now, visit: http://www.usq.edu.au/digital-crn/drf-conference
Official Conference Website: (Go Live from December 2013)
http://www.usq.edu.au/digital-rural-futures/