‘the virtual world is human in design but is it human in experience or the ability to deliver better social outcomes’

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Virtual Spaces: Designing
for Opportunities
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Southern Cross University
‘Social Justice and Social Media’
Community Driven Seminar Series
October 9 2014 - Gold Coast Campus
Professor Mike Keppell
Executive Director
Australian Digital Futures Institute
Director, Digital Futures - CRN

2. ‘the virtual world
is human in design
but is it human in
experience or the
ability to deliver
better social
outcomes’
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3. Overview
n Context
n Next generation
students
n Virtual world is human
in design…
n …But is it human in
experience
n …Deliver better social
outcomes
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4. …the virtual world is
human in design

5. 2014 NMC Technology Outlook for
Australian Tertiary Education

8. Formal
On-campus
Informal
On-campus
Informal
Off-campusPersonalised
Learning
Strategies
Face-to-face ‘Campus’

9. Next Generation
Students

12. …but is it human in
experience

13. Pub BBQ
Boardroom Slide Night
Scrapbooking Journal

14. BBQ

15. Pub

16. Boardroom

17. Scrapbooking

18. Slide Night

20. Journal

22. Digital Identity Spaces

23. 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
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24. What is Digital Identity?
n How we portray,
represent ourselves
online
n Rich ways of
communication
n Digital etiquette
n Digital ethics
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25. …literacies for
the future

26. 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
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http://steve-wheeler.blogspot.co.uk/2010/11/what-digital-
literacies.html
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27. Developing Literacies
n Employable graduates
need to be digitally literate
n Learners need to be
supported by staff to
develop academic digital
literacies
n Professional
development is vital in
developing digital literacies
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28. Cognitive
Technical
Social-
Emotional
Information literacy
Critical literacy
Multi-literacies
Socio-emotional
literacy
Critical literacy
Operational
literacy
Critical literacy
Digital literacy
NG (2012)
Can we teach digital natives digital literacy? Computers & Education 59 (2012) 1065–1078

29. Mindfulness (Rheingold, 2010)

30. Learning Space Literacies
nLearning space literacies
are the knowledge, skills
and attitudes that are
required to recognise,
utilise and adapt
distributed learning
spaces so that they allow
the personalised learner to
engage with their learning
(Keppell, 2014).
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31. Seamless Learning
nContinuity of
learning across a
combination of
locations, times,
technologies or
social settings
(Sharples, et al,
2012, 2013).
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32. Physical Virtual
Formal Informal InformalFormal
Blended
Mobile Personal
Outdoor
Professional
Practice
Distributed
Learning Spaces
Academic
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33. Virtual Learning
Spaces

34. ….ability to deliver better
social outcomes

35. Reducing anxiety in
children going to hospital
‣ Marijke Shanley
(2005) - Master of
Nursing Thesis
entitled: A
multimedia
approach to
preparing children
and their families
for hospitalisation.
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42. Being a Personalised
Learner

43. Being a Personalised
Learner
n Be a lifelong learner in
physical and virtual
networks
n Build a robust digital
identity as your future
CV
n Play with new
technology like you’re
back in kindergarten
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44. Being a Personalised
Learner
n Constantly enhance and
elaborate your digital
literacies
n Fine-tune your
knowledge of diverse
spaces to determine
their suitability for
different activities.
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45. 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)
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http://chrisbetcher.com/tag/
digitalfootprint/

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