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Embedding Digital Skills into Education – Increasing Employability and Lifetime Prospects
Sue Beckingham | @suebecks | Sheffield Hallam University
Inside Government Digital Inclusion 2014: Ensuring the Delivery of ‘Digital by Default’
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• develop confident face to face and online communication skills1
• work collaboratively both synchronously and asynchronously2
• develop a professional online presence 3• use digital tools responsibly and
effectively4
We want our students and graduates to
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What do we mean by digital?
“What is at stake isn’t just great technology and innovation, it’s about helping people to
build their own future”
"By ‘digital’, we mean content or communication that is delivered through the internet – whether the user is on a desktop
computer, laptop, tablet, mobile phone or a digital device not yet invented."
Prime Minister David Cameron
DFID 2012
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Using digital tools to develop confident communication skills
Students created digital 'About Me' videos.
Choice of: video to camera (the majority used their own mobile phones) or a screencast with voiceover
Example used http://www.screencast-o-matic.com/
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Online group meetings and interview simulation
Google Hangouts or Skype meetings were captured using screencast-o-matic. Students then embedded the
videos into their individual reflective journals.
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Developing digital collaboration skills
Students used Google Drive to record group meeting minutes and agendas, writing reports, diagrams and more. This was done both synchronously and asynchronously.
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Student led digital newsletters and how to guides
http://shutech.wordpress.com/
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shu.ac.uk/venturematrix
Working with real clientsStudents also develop employability skills such as communication, time-management, project management, relationship building, confidence and professionalism
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Developing digital skills to enhance graduate employment prospects
Understanding the value of a professional
online presence
Being aware of the negative
implications of thoughtless
open sharing online
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Raise awareness that social media interactions leave digital footprints…
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93% of recruiters are likely to look at a candidate’s social profile (Jobvite 2013). Employers may reject those that come across in a negative light
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Discussing the implications of a negative digital
footprint
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Students can access these four resources at http://go.shu.ac.uk/socialmedia
Creating guidance for students
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30,000,000 are students and recent graduates
There were 5.7 billion professionally-oriented searches undertaken by LinkedIn members on the platform in 2012 alone
Understanding the value of
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LinkedIn workshops
Creating a positive impression
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ConnectCommunicateSeek information
Personal profile | Groups | Company pages
Help othersCollaborate
Share information
Manage your professional identityLook for job opportunities
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Understanding the potential of 2nd and 3rd degree connections
Reid Hoffman 2012 LinkedIn
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Potential to share:blogs, web folios, presentations, project work, e-portfolios
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The Networked Learner
Alec Couros 2008
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The Learner
experiences
inquiry based
learning
questions
problem based
learning
interests
work based learning
community
family
academics
peers
workplace
Connected Learning
flexi
ble
lear
ning
formal learning no
n-fo
rmal
lear
ning
informal learning
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Maximise the potential affordances of digital technology
Mobile learning
Place-based learning
Self-directed learning
Competency-based
learning
Social learning
Active learning
Personal learning networks
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The advances in mobile technology afford us with numerous apps to
connect, communicate and collaborate
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https://edshelf.com/profile/suebecks/
Create your own digital toolbox
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Filtering through my personal learning network
Google+
Blogs
Key Social Spaces for Online Learning (SSOL)
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Designing your PLN
• Low profile • Low communication
• High profile • Low communication
• Low profile • High
communication
• High profile• High
communication
Adapted from Joyce Seitzinger
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Global digital connectedness
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Research
Guidance
Training and skills
Events and conferences
Publications
Leadership development
Business engagement
Community engagement
Digital connections share information and opportunities
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Critical analysis and evaluation
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Ongoing digital skills development
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Digital Inclusion
BYOD (Bring your own devices)
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futurelab 2010:19
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Digital literacy anatomised: access, skills and practices
(JISC 2011)
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Digital literacy anatomised: practices in context
(JISC 2011)
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Embedding Digital Skills into Education Increasing Employability and Lifetime
Prospects
Sue Beckingham | @suebecksSheffield Hallam University
http://socialmedia4us.wordpress.com/