I am Curious Digital

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I am Curious; #Digital

What the Digital Native did nextA timely intervention by nefg #2 – October 2012

Seems we are surrounded by technology

Pushing new affordances at us

• Samsung Galaxy S III• 16GB Marble white. • The stunning Samsung Galaxy S III lets you

make a call without pressing a button using the Direct Call feature.

• Huge 4.8" HD Super AMOLED display• Super-fast 1.4 GHz quad-core processor• Android™ 4.0 operating system

(Ice Cream Sandwich)• 8 megapixel low-light camera with auto-

focus and LED flash• Full HD video recording and playback• Up to 16GB internal memory• S Voice recognition system • Available in Marble White or Pebble Blue

Software to do this

Networks to do that

Are we moving into a connected world?

Or one of digital utilities? #FB

Are you Curious about the future?

So are we…

A long time ago Mark Prensky named Digital Natives

”now we are all co-creating in Net connectedness"

Participation is in permanent beta

Communication became really fastSo what happened next?

The Digital Natives went to college

& used their digital curiosity creatively

Curiosity lets us use our empathy to generate dialogical opportunities

Staff need to search, provide and evaluate

Level Responsibility Aim

Strategic Senior Managers

Technical Infrastructure

Enabling Platform

Staff Course Team Learning Resources

Learning Ecology

Students Students Union New Technologies

Resource Discovery

as Technology Stewards in Digital Habitats

learners need to play, discover & share

So, how can we encourage curiosity?

With performance-targets & benchmarks?

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By getting hold of the latest gadgets?

Or through reflection & feeling?

& communicating with our peers?

in intentional Communities of Practice   

Well! How did we get here?

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We surveyed 1000 practicing college professionals

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Higher level thinking Indicative description1 Drive to think & work flexibly The ability to use technology in different ways than originally covered in training or

the Manual. Making technology bring learning to life. Personalising learning through the use of technology

2 Ability to adapt technology to purposeful pedagogy

The ability to make technology contribute to learning for learners rather than seeing technology as an end in itself. Includes widening participation, increasing retention, particularly amongst hard-to-reach learners

3 Vision to create imaginative blended learning design

Learning and demonstrating the skill of redesigning teaching and learning by blending in technology to other forms and methods of teaching and learning. This refers to skills developed through practice and engagement with peers and learners rather than in formal sessions or using formal learning resources

4 Curiosity to involve learners in curriculum delivery & design

The Learner Voice. Involving learners in the design and personalising of learning. Student e-learning monitors in classes. Involving learners in the experience of learning in the widest sense

5 Imagination to develop future learning plans

Using technology in helping learners to develop management of their own journey, to account for their learning and plan future learning. Improving the tutorial process, making learning more relevant to the needs of each individual learner

6 Desire to account for personal and purposeful effectiveness

Using technology to develop the skills of reflective thinking. Capturing ideas and themes to inform teacher learning journeys through personal learning space. Developing professional accountability

7 Capacity to develop collaborative and cooperative working

To look across and out of the organisation to work with and for others. An open mindedness. Working adaptively to accommodate the ideas of others. Assimilation of the best ideas.

to reflect on their feelings bout using technology

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Turns out they were curious digital

so what did their curiosity reveal?

Curiosity leads to “flexible & adaptive thinking”

Jonathan Mugan – The Curiosity Cycle

Starting with their personal experiences of using technology

They enhanced their professional practice with confidence

They were student-centred, reflective practitioners

Developing new teaching and Learning strategies

In their lives, Moodle is a given

Apps offer opportunities

Ideas emerge from exploring technology personally

Transformation comes from;

Designing “Artfully-constructed, student-centred learning experiences”

We found that Digital Practitioners; Explore; • With Confidence• Think Divergently

Trust in;• A Tapestry of Technology• Student Play• Bring Your Own Device

Use; • Personal curiosity to Discover resources& Collaborate confidently

The personal is professional

Confident digital practitioners will help create e-mature institutions

How will you develop your practice?

• Digital Practitioner • (http://www.slideshare.net/fredgarnett/digital-practitioner-2011

• Craft of Teaching

• http://www.slideshare.net/fredgarnett/the-craft-of-teaching-2011

• Technology Stewards• http://www.slideshare.net/fredgarnett/heutagogy-technology-stewardship

• Co-creating Open Scholarship• http://www.slideshare.net/fredgarnett/cocreating-open-scholarship

• mlearning • http://prezi.com/kr94rajmvk9u/mlearning/

• Networked Learning

• http://www.scoop.it/t/networked-learning-learning-networks

Further Resources• Web 2.0 tech for Learning; Charles Crook et al• What is Web 2.0? O’Reilly• Digital Habitats; Etienne Wenger• Intentional Communities of Practice; Thomas Cochrane• Social Networks of Learning; Caroline Haythornthwaite• Open Context Model of Learning & the Craft of Teaching• Aggregate then Curate with xtlearn.net• Architecture of Participation

• Images Fred Garnett, Naomi Grew, Geoff Rebbeck as well as creative commons via Google Images, let us know any errors - thanks

What’s Next? The curious, digital practitioner,needs new forms of adaptive institutional support

Fit for context to be continued nefg#3

I am Curious Digital

timely

I am Curious; #Digital

What the Digital Native did nextA timely intervention by nefg – October 2012

@fredgarnett LKLNigel Ecclesfield JISCGeoff Rebbeck & Naomi Grew LSIS