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Mobile and Social Media: the power of the learning network and digital literacy
1. www.le.ac.uk
Mobile and Social Media:
The power of the learning network and
digital literacy
Terese Bird
tmb10@le.ac.uk
Learning Technologist and
SCORE Research Fellow
Institute of Learning Innovation
MobiLearnAsia 2013
Singapore
2-3 October, 2013 Photo by cindy47452, Flickr
2. What shall we talk about?
• Digital literacy
• Academic Digital
Literacy
• Digital Learning
Literacy
• Examples of tools
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4. Digital Literacy
• “Digital literacy is the ability to understand and use
information in multiple formats from a wide range of sources
when it is presented via computers.” (Gilster, 1997)
• Technology such as mobile devices and social media are now
part of our life and language, and should be included in
learning:
– 24/7 flexibility & efficiency
– Further reach to experts
– Ethos and Ethics
– Lifelong learning
– Careers
5. Careers
• “As mobile platforms become more
complex, employers are increasingly looking for
people who can demonstrate a foundation of mobile
specific skills and experience to be sure of delivering
success.” – CWJobs.co.uk
http://www.v3.co.uk/v3-uk/news/2276691/it-job-seekers-under-pressure-to-
learn-mobile-development-skills
Photo by
TheDEMO
Conference
on Flickr
6. Academic Digital Literacy
• “Knowledge and insight to strategically utilise
the institutional, public social, and various
hardware technologies in personal academic
learning and research.” TBird
7. Academic Digital Literacy
• Learning skills
• Research skills
• Social media skills
• Academic digital profile
• New hardware skills
(mobile, webcam, microphone, video camera)
• Insight to recognise and utilise benefits of these for
own development
12. What tools to do these tasks?
• Knowledge creation – offline research, blogging
• Discussing – Twitter, Facebook, Google+
• Curating – Scoop.it, Pinterest, Flickr
• Presenting – Prezi, Slideshare
• ‘Advertising’ – all of the above
Private / Professional / Collective Uses
13. Learning literacy of 1973
• Library search (card catalogue)
• How to take notes
• Citing and referencing
• Numeracy
• Discussion and debate
• Writing (essays and reports)
• Laboratory skills and equipment knowledge
• Presenting (often reading a paper in front of others)
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14. Learning literacy 2013
• Library search (online and various journal searches)
• How to take notes annotate e-books, recorded lectures
• Citing and referencing articles, blogs, YouTube vids
• Numeracy (including apps, games, programmes)
• Discussion and debate (offline and online)
• Writing (offline and online: blogging, microblogging)
• Laboratory equipment (added technology)
• Presenting (Powerpoint, Prezi, Slideshare, Webinar)
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hugovk on
Flickr
19. Twitter
• Follow experts
• Ask a question, get answers from experts
• Get ideas
• Hottest news (use the search)
• ‘Faster’ than email
• Announcements
• ‘New post’ tweets
• Include the world
• Attend conference virtually
29. Feeling overwhelmed? Try one new thing
“No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow
you progress, you are still way ahead of everyone
who isn’t trying.”
-- Tony Robbins
30. Thank you! –Terese Bird tmb10@le.ac.uk
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• Gilster, P. (1997). digital literacy (1st ed.). New York: John Wiley & Sons.