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Virtual Spaces: Designing for Opportunities

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‘Social Justice and Social Media’ Community Driven Seminar Series

October 9 2014 - Gold Coast Campus

Professor Mike Keppell Executive Director

Australian Digital Futures Institute Director, Digital Futures - CRN

‘the virtual world is human in design but is it human in experience or the ability to deliver better social outcomes’

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OverviewnContext nNext generation

students nVirtual world is human

in design… n…But is it human in

experience n…Deliver better social

outcomes

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…the virtual world is human in design

2014 NMC Technology Outlook for Australian Tertiary Education

Formal On-campus

Informal On-campus

Informal Off-campusPersonalised

Learning Strategies

Face-to-face ‘Campus’

Next Generation Students

…but is it human in experience

Pub BBQ

Boardroom Slide Night

Scrapbooking Journal

BBQ

Pub

Boardroom

Scrapbooking

Slide Night

Journal

Digital Identity Spaces

What is Digital Identity?

nSafe and engaged digital citizenship

nAppropriate and responsible technology use

nDigital wellness

nhttp://digitalcitizenship.net/Home_Page.html

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What is Digital Identity?nHow we portray,

represent ourselves online

nRich ways of communication

nDigital etiquette

nDigital ethics

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…literacies for the future

Wheeler Digital Literacies

n Social networking skills n Transliteracy skills n Maintaining Privacy n Managing Identity n Creating content n Organising and sharing content n Reusing/repurposing content n Filtering and selecting content n Self broadcasting

!!http://steve-wheeler.blogspot.co.uk/2010/11/what-digital-literacies.html

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Developing Literacies

n Employable graduates need to be digitally literate

n Learners need to be supported by staff to develop academic digital literacies

n Professional development is vital in developing digital literacies

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Cognitive

TechnicalSocial-

Emotional

Information literacy Critical literacy Multi-literacies

Socio-emotional literacy

Critical literacy

Operational literacy

Critical literacy

Digital literacy

NG (2012)

Can we teach digital natives digital literacy? Computers & Education 59 (2012) 1065–1078

Mindfulness (Rheingold, 2010)

Learning Space LiteraciesnLearning space literacies are the knowledge, skills and attitudes that are required to recognise, utilise and adapt distributed learning spaces so that they allow the personalised learner to engage with their learning (Keppell, 2014).

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Seamless Learning

nContinuity of learning across a combination of locations, times, technologies or social settings (Sharples, et al, 2012, 2013).

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Physical Virtual

Formal Informal InformalFormal

Blended

Mobile Personal

Outdoor Professional Practice

Distributed Learning Spaces

Academic

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Virtual Learning Spaces

….ability to deliver better social outcomes

Reducing anxiety in children going to hospital

‣ Marijke Shanley (2005) - Master of Nursing Thesis entitled: A multimedia approach to preparing children and their families for hospitalisation.

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Being a Personalised Learner

Being a Personalised LearnernBe a lifelong learner in

physical and virtual networks

nBuild a robust digital identity as your future CV

nPlay with new technology like you’re back in kindergarten

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Being a Personalised LearnernConstantly enhance and

elaborate your digital literacies

nFine-tune your knowledge of diverse spaces to determine their suitability for different activities.

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I can see a day in the not too distant future (if it’s not already here) where your “digital footprint” will carry far more weight than anything you might include in a resume or CV (Betcher, 2009)

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http://chrisbetcher.com/tag/digitalfootprint/

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