Presentation at #OEB18, Online Educa Berlin Conference, 5-7 Dec 2018, Berlin, Germany

1. Digital capabilities Now
and in the World to Come
World Café session, Online Educa Berlin
6-7 December 2018, Berlin, Germany
Tünde Varga-Atkins
PhD candidate in TEL, Lancaster University and
Senior Educational Developer, University of Liverpool

2. Outline
1. Introductions
2. Context
3. Your ‘signature pedagogies’
4. Your (& organisation’s) digital capabilities
5. Future
6. Action plan

3. 1. Introductions

4. Your sector, organisation and profession
/ discipline / field of expertise?

5. 1. ICT proficiency
2.
Info/data/media
literacy
3. Digital
problem-solving,
creative
production
4. Digital
collaboration/
communication
5. Digital
learning/
development
6. Digital identity
and wellbeing
Sector:
Organisation:
My role / profession /
field of expertise in a
tweet
A successful X in my
area is:
Adapted from JISC & ABC Learning Design
Digital Capabilities

6. 2. Context
I, Daniel Blake and
William Blake

7. *
Image from imdb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5168192/mediaviewer/rm1212744960 British release poster (Wikipedia)

8. I, Daniel Blake (2016) by Ken Loach
*
Screenshot from trailer: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5168192/videoplayer/vi2130490905

9. William Blake, artist, poet (1757-1807)
By Thomas Phillips

10. I must create a system
or be enslaved by
another man’s;
I will not reason and
compare: my business
is to create. (1804)

11. William Blake
Songs of Innocence and
of Experience (1789)
image: Wikipedia

12. 3. Your signature pedagogies
(or how we learn best to be
what we are/want to be)

13. Signature pedagogies
“the types of teaching that organize
the fundamental ways in which
future practitioners are educated
for their new professions”
(Shulman, 2005, p. 52).

14. Signature pedagogies: William Blake
creativity
romantic
visionary
freedom
artistic expression
painting
Implicit values
Deep knowledge structures
Teaching, learning activities
radical
originalityexperimentation
writing
copying
observing imagining
reading
exhibiting
Re-drafting

15. Signature pedagogies: engineers
creative problem-
solvers
inquisitive
curious
for the
human good
science & mathematics
& realisation
collaborative, open-ended
projects from day 1
Implicit values
Deep knowledge structures
Teaching, learning activities
global

16. Describe a successful
[professional in X]*
*your own profession or those you support
Think-pair-shareTask

17. 1. ICT proficiency
2.
Info/data/media
literacy
3. Digital
problem-solving,
creative
production
4. Digital
collaboration/
communication
5. Digital
learning/
development
6. Digital identity
and wellbeing
Sector:
Organisation:
My role / profession /
field of expertise in a
tweet
A successful X in my
area is:
Adapted from JISC & ABC Learning Design
Digital Capabilities

18. 4. Your (and/or your people’s)
digital capabilities

19. “…capabilities
which fit
someone for
living, learning
and working in
a digital
society” (JISC)
Digital
capabilities

20. Engineering & Management
cc: Stuck in Customs - https://www.flickr.com/photos/95572727@N00 cc: casipphotos - https://www.flickr.com/photos/31450657@N08

21. Signature digital capabilities: engineering
Digital
problem-solving
Digital
collaboration /
communication
Info-/data- and
media literacy
3D- CAD
Video-
conferencing
File-sharing
Simulation,
modelling
WhatsApp
Word, PPT
Excel
Matlab
Assembly
BIM
Google
databases
*abridged
*based on 4 HE modules,
interviews with engineers,
students and lecturers

22. Engineering
Digital
problem-solving
Digital
collaboration /
communication
Info-/data- and
media literacy
Signature pedagogies ~>
signature digital capabilities

23. Poem as artistic expression
as data analysis method
(Bazeley 2013)
cc: lw5315us - https://www.flickr.com/photos/13456893@N04
ISBN 9781849203036

24. We open boxes. Pull things apart.
Bikes, trimmers, spark plugs, cars.
We simulate and model with graphs
Solve problems with applied maths.
We collaborate from day one,
On all things complex and human.
we draw on global resources,
join forces,
Just like in the real world.
Although, CREO, CAD, Rivet are core.
You don't need to be the master-of-all.
After baptism by a 5-day Wildfire,
Fight your way through the digital mire,
Armed only with wit and the need to enquire.
Just like in the real world.
Play audio
Engineering

25. We open boxes. Pull things apart.
Bikes, trimmers, spark plugs, cars.
We simulate and model with graphs
Solve problems with applied maths.
We collaborate from day one,
On all things complex and human.
we draw on global resources,
join forces,
Just like in the real world.
Although, CREO, CAD, Rivet are core.
You don't need to be the master-of-all.
After baptism by a 5-day Wildfire,
Fight your way through the digital mire,
Armed only with wit and the need to enquire.
Just like in the real world.
Play audio
Engineering

26. We open boxes. Pull things apart.
Bikes, trimmers, spark plugs, cars.
We simulate and model with graphs
Solve problems with applied maths.
We collaborate from day one,
On all things complex and human.
we draw on global resources,
join forces,
Just like in the real world.
Although, CREO, CAD, Rivet are core.
You don't need to be the master-of-all.
After baptism by a 5-day Wildfire,
Fight your way through the digital mire,
Armed only with wit and the need to enquire.
Just like in the real world.
Play audio
Engineering

27. We open boxes. Pull things apart.
Bikes, trimmers, spark plugs, cars.
We simulate and model with graphs
Solve problems with applied maths.
We collaborate from day one,
On all things complex and human.
we draw on global resources,
join forces,
Just like in the real world.
Although, CREO, CAD, Rivet are core.
You don't need to be the master-of-all.
After baptism by a 5-day Wildfire,
Fight your way through the digital mire,
Armed only with wit and the need to enquire.
Just like in the real world.
Play audio
Engineering

28. Signature
pedagogies
~> signature
digital
capabilities
Management

29. My (profession’s/organisation’s)
digital capabilities and
practices
Task

30. 1. ICT proficiency
2.
Info/data/media
literacy
3. Digital
problem-solving,
creative
production
4. Digital
collaboration/
communication
5. Digital
learning/
development
6. Digital identity
and wellbeing
Sector:
Organisation:
My role / profession /
field of expertise in a
tweet
A successful X in my
area is:
Adapted from JISC & ABC Learning Design
Digital Capabilities

31. Find someone who…Task
Find someone to…

32. 5. Future

33. Transformational / disruptive
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34. *
Which technologies are relevant
to your context?
Any others?
Task

35. 6. Action plan

36. *
Write an action plan…Task
e.g. Who (else) do I need to talk to?
What areas I (or my organisation)
would like to work on…

37. Thank you
@tundeva
with acknowledgments to my supervisor Professor Don Passey, Lancaster University,
colleagues at University of Liverpool, Helen Beetham, Professor Rhona Sharpe
(expert interviews) and my participants.