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Social Media and Digital Skills in Higher Education
Sue Beckingham MA FSEDA FHEA
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The Times They Are a-Changin’. Again...
Bob Dylan 1964
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A marked shift to being nearly always switched on
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Personal
ProfessionalTeaching
How Today's Higher Education Faculty are using Social Media report
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Annual How Today's Higher
Education Faculty are using Social
Media reportMoran, Seaman and Tinti-
Kane (Pearson)2012: 16
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Using Social
Media in HE
Research
Student Professional Development
Recruitment
Student Guidance
Teaching
Peer Support
University Comms
Academic Professional Development
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But where to start when there is so much choice?
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Personal Learning Networks
You have the choice of how and with whom you network and learn with and from
A personal perspective
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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Samuel Johnson
The Life of Samuel JohnsonJames Boswell 1775
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= my social space
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Connective Intelligence
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http://www.scoop.it/t/taking-a-look-at-moocs
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http://www.scoop.it/t/elearning
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Social tools to help organise learning
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Developing graduate skills
need which include digital literacies
and a professional
online presence
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Developing an Understanding of the impact of our digital
footprints
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Swanson 2013:6
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Professional Skills
1. Critical thinking and problem solving
2. Collaboration across networks and leading by influence
3. Agility and adaptability
4. Initiative and entrepreneurialism
5. Effective oral and written communication
6. Accessing and analyzing information
7. Curiosity and imagination
TeachThought 2013
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Creativity
Fosters deeper learning
Builds confidence
Enables collaboration
Different spaces for reflection
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9 Characteristics of 21st Century Learning
http://ww
w.teachthought.com
/learning/9-chara
cteristics-of-2
1st-century-learning/
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Social Media Policy OR
Social Media Guidance?
??????
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Who?
Where?
Why?
What?
When?
How?
Sue BeckinghamEducational Developer
!Who will look at your online profile?
What do people want to know about you?
Where will they use this information?
will find you!Why is your profile important?
When and how often do you update it?
How will you use your profile to your advantage?
The power of online connections• recruitment/job seeking• develop a personal brand• opportunity to learn and share• global connections• six degrees of separation• maintain connections• ongoing 24/7 networking• ability to be known and found
Advocateswell developed profile, active user, connected, sharing, collaborating.
Dabblersprofile partially set up, often then forgotten, sporadic visits, low contribution.
Unengagedunaware of potential, not part of the conversation.
Professional Social PresenceUsing Social Media
Questions to consider
However…. an unprofessional profile can be more damaging than not having one at all.
http://www.theconversationprism.com/
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Support and
Guidance
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The Value of Networking and Sharing
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Sharing seeds of ideas...Two heads are often better than one
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To progress we need to enable blue-sky thinking
Creative ideas that are not limited by current thinking or beliefs