Additional learning 5

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Community Challenge 2012-13

Additional Learning Lecture and Seminar Series at UCBC (Number 5)

Community Challenge Tools

email, doodle, pbworks, delicious, soundcloud, prezi, anymeeting, twitter, facebook, voicethread, slideshare, youtube, dropbox, vimeo, screencast-o-matic

Personal accounts needed

Digital literacy?

Tagging – e.g. UCBCCC

Web 3.0Semantic Web

Web 1.0The Web

Web x.0Meta Web

Web 2.0Social Web

Degree of Social Connectivity

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Connects information Connects people

Connects knowledge Connects intelligence

The eXtended Web

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Adapted from the work of Nova Spivack

Source: Kelly Hodgkins http://gizmodo.com/5813875/what-happens-in-60-seconds-on-the-internet

Angry Birds?

Every day = 5,241,600 hours

of human attention

= 600 years

1% of this time?

“60% of all Internet pages contain

misleading information.”

- Thomas Edison

Learners need ‘digital abilities’

Content isn’t King. It’s a Tyrant...

• How do I find stuff?• How do I know it’s accurate?• How do I share content?• How do I filter content?• How do I keep up with all the news?• How do I file content?• How do I categorise content?

scavenging.files.wordpress.com

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So what are the skills everyone should possess?

“future employees will find themselves in an economy buffeted by global economic forces and constant technological innovation. All employees … will be subject to the demands of new systems and technologies. Jobs will be created which do not exist now and existing jobs will require new skills”

See delicious.com and the tag UCBCCC for writing by Steven Schwartz, vice-chancellor of Macquarie University, Australia.

Therefore graduates ought to be:

• flexible• resilient• adaptable• team players• technologically savvy• able to apply skills in different contexts• life-long learners• able to make the most of new opportunities

Join all nine dotsUsing four straight Lines. Do not takeYour pen from the Paper and do not Go back over any Lines.

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Thinking ‘outside the box’ means we go beyond the fixity of our natural

perception

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What would you do, if at work you discovered that a colleague was ‘slacking off’?

Practical wisdom?

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Learning to learn

Critical thinking

Collaboration

Creativity

Reflection

Evaluation

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-No Derivative Works 2.0 UK:

International Licence.

UCBC ‘Community Challenge’ Research Group 2012 (Thanks to Steve Wheeler, Plymouth University for the majority of these slides – see slideshare for further information)