Digital Literacies - an introduction for our e-learning support agents

1. STUDENT DIGITAL LITERACIES
An introduction

2. “Wits will position itself as an IT-savvy university that
uses technology to enhance all its core processes,
including providing new and innovative ways of engaging
students and staff in academic activities.”

3. What does eLSI want?
• Helpdesk Assistants • Tech Savvy Students

4. "I can make confident and critical use
of information and communications
technologies to manage, collaborate
and share information and enhance
my academic, personal and
professional development.”

5. How do we develop such students?

6. Where can mentors and champions
be deployed?
• Student support
• Staff support
• Policy Matters
• IT infrastructure
• Development Projects

7. Student Support
• We want to students to address the digital
capacities of other students. To both
understand the digital capabilities students
need and then provide students with clear
signposts to training, support and guidance

8. Staff Support
• We want to staff to be comfortable with
working with students in a digitally-rich
environment and we want to engage and
reward students for supporting other students
and reverse-mentoring staff.

9. Policy Matters
• We want students to assist us create
opportunities for digital issues to be discussed
and work towards a campus that has digital
embedded in its ethos

10. IT infrastructure
• We want students to be able to support
students to use computing devices and
services on campus for e-learning

11. Development
• We want students to assist with creating
digitally-rich activities that reduce staff
workload (e.g. audience response systems,
peer assessment, lecture capture, open
education resources, etc)

12. How do we get there?