#altc2013 slow & steady wins the race

SLOW & STEADY WINS THE RACE: DEVELOPING DIGITAL LITERACIES DR BEX LEWIS, RESEARCH FELLOW IN SOCIAL MEDIA & ONLINE LEARNING, CODEC, ST JOHN’S, DURHAM UNIVERSITY

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ODHE: Organisational Change & Development; Higher Education

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Technology? New!Devices; Software; Digital Media; Communication

I made some assumptions about the terminology you used in this survey - something in that?! I wonder how many of us do that? Learning the basics of when to use what tool would be good and save hours trying to use something where another tool would serve better.

TERMINOLOGY

“many OD practitioners are not comfortable with digital literacies…”

POSSIBILITIES FEARS

EXERCISE

As an older worker and a senior manager I have tried hard to be enthusiastic and engage with new tools despite the fact that most of them are not needed in my role. I am also hugely frustrated at the lack of discipline in the use of these tools by others and the tendency to drop face-to-face conversations in favour of remote discussion. Tools need to be fit for purpose and fit for the people using them. The language needs to be simple and understandable and the tools themselves easy to use and reasonably obvious. My experience of 'technology' is that it has added endless amounts of time to my working day instead of making it quicker. It also provides me with the greatest source of negative stress.

FRUSTRATION!

Self-Taught, Experiment, Play

Altruism? Compliance? Business Case?

“I try to choose the tools that will help me achieve what I need to do in the fastest possible time and in the easiest way. That is a mistake as the IT group only tend to roll out tools they get excited about instead of asking us how we would work with them and over what time period.”

Desktop 91.7%22Laptop 87.5%21Netbook 16.7%4Tablet Device 37.5% 9E-Reader 20.8%5Smartphone 75.0% 18

The majority of members of the group now have iPads…

•E-Surveys•Google Docs•University proprietary systems

Reliability: Eduroam; other networks Multiple log ins: “It can take me up to 20 minutes to get everything up and running.”

HTTP://WWW.YOUTUBE.COM/WATCH?V=IHDXFDHVIMK

HTTP://WWW.SLIDESHARE.NET/

DRBEXL

LINKED-IN: HTTP://HTTP://J.MP/ODHELINKEDIN

E-MAIL LIST

Let’s Blog…

WHO TO CONNECT WITH?

• Organisational Developers

• VCs & Influencers

• Academics

• International Exchange

BLOG DISCUSSIONS• What is our ‘message’?

• What are our ‘practices’

• What are the ‘actions’ we want people to take?

• What ‘events’ do we want to promote?

• What ideas for blog posts can we generate?

• What do you like?• Catchy

headings/images• ‘Active’ Posts• Links to further

information

• What do you not like?• Ego-Profiles• Over-Sharing• Pop-Up Adverts• Long-winded

HTTP://ODHEGROUP.WORDPRESS.COM

Twitter?

WEBINAR

HAVE WE MOVED FORWARD?

• ‘Digital’ on the agenda for 2 years

• Blog online, regular content

• Tablet devices more numerous

• Simple tools/apps shared: more open to suggestions

• Group in more regular content with each other

‘BIG PICTURE’ PERSON = FRUSTRATING

GROUP HAS MADE PROGRESS

@DRBEXL @DIGITALFPRINT

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