An OER by nefg which summarises the Digital Practitioner Research commissioned by LSIS; teachers are now confidently curious in using a range of new digital technologies and their personal use is now informing their professional practice. We provide research information and some context and ask how people might intend to improve their digital practice professionally

1. I am Curious;
#Digital Curious Digital
I am
timely
What the Digital Native did next
A timely intervention by nefg #2– October 2012

2. Seems we are surrounded by technology

3. Pushing new affordancesat us
• Samsung Galaxy S III
• 16GB Marble white.
• The stunning Samsung Galaxy S III lets you
make a call without pressing a button
using the Direct Call feature.
• Huge 4.8" HD Super AMOLED display
• Super-fast 1.4 GHz quad-core processor
• Android™ 4.0 operating system
(Ice Cream Sandwich)
• 8 megapixel low-light camera with auto-
focus and LED flash
• Full HD video recording and playback
• Up to 16GB internal memory
• S Voice recognition system
• Available in Marble White or Pebble Blue

4. Softwareto do this

5. Networksto do that

6. Are we moving into a connectedworld?

7. Or one of digital utilities? #FB

8. Are you Curious about the future?

9. So are we…

10. A long time ago Mark Prensky named Digital Natives
”now we are all co-creating inNet connectedness"

11. Participation is in permanent beta

12. Communication became really fast
So what happened next?

13. The Digital Natives went to college
& used their digital curiositycreatively

14. Curiosity lets us use our empathy to
generate dialogical opportunities

15. Staff need to search, provide and evaluate
Level Responsibility Aim
Strategic Senior Technical Enabling
Managers Infrastructure Platform
Staff Course Team Learning Learning
Resources Ecology
Students Students Union New Resource
Technologies Discovery
as Technology Stewards in Digital Habitats

16. learners need to play, discover &share

17. So, how can we encourage curiosity?

18. With performance-targets &benchmarks?
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19. By getting hold of the latest gadgets?

20. Or through reflection &feeling?

21. &communicating with our peers?

22. in intentional Communities of
Practice

23. Well! How did we get here?

24. We surveyed
1000
practicing
college
professionals
24

25. to reflect on their feelings bout using technology
Higher level thinking Indicative description
1 Drive to think & work flexibly The ability to use technology in different ways than originally covered in training or
the Manual. Making technology bring learning to life. Personalising learning through
the use of technology
2 Ability to adapt technology The ability to make technology contribute to learning for learners rather than seeing
to purposeful pedagogy technology as an end in itself. Includes widening participation, increasing retention,
particularly amongst hard-to-reach learners
3 Vision to create imaginative Learning and demonstrating the skill of redesigning teaching and learning by
blended learning design blending in technology to other forms and methods of teaching and learning. This
refers to skills developed through practice and engagement with peers and learners
rather than in formal sessions or using formal learning resources
4 Curiosity to involve learners The Learner Voice. Involving learners in the design and personalising of learning.
in curriculum delivery & Student e-learning monitors in classes. Involving learners in the experience of
design learning in the widest sense
5 Imagination to develop Using technology in helping learners to develop management of their own journey, to
future learning plans account for their learning and plan future learning. Improving the tutorial process,
making learning more relevant to the needs of each individual learner
6 Desire to account for Using technology to develop the skills of reflective thinking. Capturing ideas and
personal and purposeful themes to inform teacher learning journeys through personal learning space.
effectiveness Developing professional accountability
7 Capacity to develop To look across and out of the organisation to work with and for others. An open
collaborative and mindedness. Working adaptively to accommodate the ideas of others. Assimilation of
25 cooperative working the best ideas.

26. Turns out they were curious digital
so what did their curiosity reveal?
26

27. Curiosity leads to “flexible & adaptive thinking”
Jonathan Mugan – The Curiosity Cycle

28. Starting with
their personal
experiences of
using
technology

29. They enhanced their professional
practice with confidence

30. They were student-centred, reflective
practitioners

31. Developing new teaching and Learningstrategies

32. In their lives, Moodle is a given

33. Apps offer opportunities

34. Ideas emerge from exploring technology personally

35. Transformation comes from;
Designing “Artfully-constructed,
student-centred learning experiences”

36. We found that Digital Practitioners;
Explore;
• With Confidence
• Think Divergently
Trust in;
• A Tapestry of Technology
• Student Play
• Bring Your Own Device
Use;
• Personal curiosity to Discover resources
& Collaborate confidently

37. The personal is professional
Confident digital practitioners
will help create e-mature institutions

38. How will you develop your practice?
• Digital Practitioner
• (http://www.slideshare.net/fredgarnett/digital-practitioner-2011
• Craft of Teaching
• http://www.slideshare.net/fredgarnett/the-craft-of-teaching-2011
• Technology Stewards
• http://www.slideshare.net/fredgarnett/heutagogy-technology-stewardship
• Co-creating Open Scholarship
• http://www.slideshare.net/fredgarnett/cocreating-open-scholarship
• mlearning
• http://prezi.com/kr94rajmvk9u/mlearning/
• Networked Learning
• http://www.scoop.it/t/networked-learning-learning-networks

39. Further Resources
• Web 2.0 tech for Learning; Charles Crook et al
• What is Web 2.0? O’Reilly
• Digital Habitats; Etienne Wenger
• Intentional Communities of Practice; Thomas Cochrane
• Social Networks of Learning; Caroline Haythornthwaite
• Open Context Model of Learning & the Craft of Teaching
• Aggregate then Curate with xtlearn.net
• Architecture of Participation
• Images Fred Garnett, Naomi Grew, Geoff Rebbeck as well as creative
commons via Google Images, let us know any errors - thanks

40. What’s Next? The curious, digital practitioner,
needs new forms of adaptive institutional support
Responsive
Supportive
Adaptive
Fit for context
to be continued nefg#3

41. I am Curious;
#Digital Curious Digital
I am
@fredgarnett LKL
Nigel Ecclesfield JISC
timely
Geoff Rebbeck & Naomi Grew LSIS
What the Digital Native did next
A timely intervention by nefg– October 2012