Report on developing a digital literacy for staff project.

1. Digital Literacy
It's not just for students...

2. Layout
Introduction
The project beginnings
What digital literacy?
The project today
and u can't
see me
I iz in ur mind

3. Introductions
Who am I?
Nigel Robertson
Waikato Centre for eLearning
Centre for Tertiary Teaching
& Learning
Waikato University

4. Introductions
Also known as easegill
@easegill
about.me/easegill

5. Introductions
Where did I come
from?
Edinburgh
By Stuart Caie from Edinburgh, Scotland (Flickr) [CC-BY-2.0
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

6. Introductions
Where did I come from?
Via the Yorkshire Dales
http://www.flickr.com/photos/acradenia/2580545327 Ingleborough by
Acradenia, on Flickr CC-BY

7. Introductions
Now living in Hamilton
Kirikiriroa
The Tron
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bluepolaris/4588591079 Waikato Hospital by
blue polaris CC-BY-NC-ND

8. Why did we start?

9. The workplace environment
Conceptual thresholds
We all have gaps in our understanding.
For some staff these gaps are sometimes significant

10. The workplace environment
Transferability
There exists a block
in ability to transfer
skills from one
discipline to another
...or from application
to application

11. Responsibility Locus
"We have a
responsibility for
what we do, but
also for what we
don't do."
There was an
attitude among
some that
suggested they felt
no responsibility for
their own digital
literacy

12. http://scoop.intel.com/what-happens-in-an-internet-minute/

15. Or social software being
used in education ...

16. Horizon Report NZ 2011
Digital literacy is a key skill in every discipline
and profession
Most academics are not using new and
compelling technologies for learning & teaching,
nor for their own research
The abundance of resources & relationships
easily accessible via the Internet challenges us
to revisit our roles as educators

17. What is digital literacy?Some rights reserved by hugojcardoso

18. http://youtu.be/-ikL9479YDg

19. "Digital Literacy is about mastering ideas, not
keystrokes" Gilster, 1997

20. "Digital Literacy is a condition, not a threshold"
Martin, 2006

21. <literate></illiterate>
"It is really not possible to speak of illiterate and
literate persons as two distinct categories"
(unesco 1957)
Source http://dougbelshaw.com/blog/2011/11/22/how-to-develop-digital-literacies-in-yourself-and-others-presentation/#.UGEM26T9F60

22. "Digital literacy defines those capabilities
which fit an individual for living, learning and
working in a digital society" JISC

23. Elements

24. Preparing the ground
Observation and
Discussion
Engaged key senior
leaders
Project Proposal
Steering Committee

25. Digital Literacy Project - Intentions
Develop staff digital literacy
Confident & agile
Lifelong learning
"This is critical
for our university
today"

26. Senior Management Support
Vice Chancellor
Deputy VC
Assistant VC Operations
Directors and Deans
“The university is a learning
organisation - we want agile, curious,
playful, enquiring, confident staff and
students who embrace technology as
part of a life-long journey.” Vice Chancellor,
Roy Crawford

27. Focus on Staff
"But you're not doing anything for students!"
• Students will not automatically
be digitally literate
• Student engagement and access to learning
will inevitably involve some technology
• Staff need to be role models for our students

28. We are all Natives

29. Structural change
Internet charging
Job descriptions
IT - From Min to Max

30. Support shift
- encouraging self agency
Do I already know the
answer?
Self paced video help
Just in time support
Explicit help
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31. Workshops
Not 'training'
Participatory, conversational, task based
Topic change
Help me, help myself - Finding answers in a digital world: Helping you to find
answers to your computing questions.
Social Media: Find out how Social Media, Facebook, Twitter and Yammer are
being used for Teaching and Learning, Research and PD.
Net Safety: Understand what the online risks are, and the clues that will help
you identify scams and potential online threats.
Mobile Technologies: Where do they fit?
Google Docs - The Whole Story: Learning through narrative

32. Speed Seminars
Short 101 taster sessions
e-books
Twitter as a learning and teaching feedback tool
Google Drive - What is it?
Twitter as a professional learning network
Creative Commons - What is it?
Databases and Course packs
Developing the web profile of your research.
Referencing software
QR codes – why should I care?
The World Wide Web and I

33. Coffee Course
Short daily activity
At your desk
In the cafe
Fun

34. Digital Literacy Awareness Week
Workshops
Speed Seminars
Coffee Courses
Multimedia Resources
7 Things

35. Digital Literacy Framework
Enabling document
Makes commitment explicit
Permissions & responsibilities:
- for staff
- for managers
- for the University

36. Digital literacy themes
Openness
Participation
Sharing
Online identity
Permission
Wonder & curiosity

38. Thank you
Tracey Morgan -
Digital Literacy
Advisor
Anna Bounds -
Assistant Vice
Chancellor
(Operations)

39. Questions?
Stay social, keep sharing
@easegill
#flds13
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