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Mobile and Social Media:The power of the learning network and digital literacy

Terese Birdtmb10@le.ac.ukLearning Technologist and SCORE Research FellowInstitute of Learning InnovationMobiLearnAsia 2013Singapore2-3 October, 2013 Photo by cindy47452, Flickr

What shall we talk about?

• Digital literacy

• Academic Digital Literacy

• Digital Learning Literacy

• Examples of tools

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http://www.le.ac.uk/manufacturingpasts

Example of digitally-literate research project

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

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

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Conference on Flickr

Academic Digital Literacy• “Knowledge and insight to strategically utilise

the institutional, public social, and various hardware technologies in personal academic learning and research.” TBird

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

Recent research: Manufacturing Pasts

Wordpress

Academic Digital Profile: Cristina Costa on Flickr

The academic research cycle

Social media: A guide for researchers (2011), p15

Historical research tasksON THE INTERNET

• Community• Digital materials• Discover• Disseminate

Sengaw.wordpress.com

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

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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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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‘Networked learner’ (Drexler, 2010)

Institutional Environment

Modules: • Documents• Activities

• Admin• Library

Instructor

Email

Student

University Library• Book

s• Eboo

ks

• Subscribed journalsSpecial

collections (digitised)

• Special collections

AsynchronousSharing

knowledge, discussion,

organisation

• Institutional open-access articles, theses

• Articles via Google Scholar• Open

Courseware

• iTunes U• YouTube• TED

Talks

• Slideshare (Presentations)

• LinkedIn (business)

• Academia.edu

• Facebook for learning

• Pinterest/Flickr (Images)

• Twitter (API)

• Scoop.it Curated sites, blog posts, articles, researchSynchronous

Sharing knowledge, discussion,

organisation• Webinar

s • Skype

• Blogging

Digital Learning Literacy(Bird, 2013)

Face-to-face connection

Fellow students

Digital Literacies Development Framework (Beetham, 2013)

Twitter – personal or collective account

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

Flickr

Pinterest

Facebook - Page

Facebook – Group

Wikipedia – no promotion allowed

YouTube

Vimeo – longer than 10 minutes

Slideshare (‘Slideshare tbirdcymru’) for these slides

Academia.edu

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

Thank you! –Terese Bird tmb10@le.ac.uk

• Beetham, H. (2013). The Design Studio / Literacies development framework.doc. The Design Studio Wiki. Retrieved October 02, 2013, from http://jiscdesignstudio.pbworks.com/w/file/40474958/Literacies development framework.doc

• Cann, A. J., Dimitriou, K., & Hooley, T. (2011). Social media: A guide for researchers | Research Information Network. Retrieved from http://www.rin.ac.uk/our-work/communicating-and-disseminating-research/social-media-guide-researchers

• Drexler, W. (2010). AJET 26(3) Drexler (2010) - The networked student model for construction of personal learning environments: Balancing teacher control and student autonomy. Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 26(3). Retrieved from http://www.ascilite.org.au/ajet/ajet26/drexler.html

• Gilster, P. (1997). digital literacy (1st ed.). New York: John Wiley & Sons.