Invited speaker at the Inside Government Forum Digital Inclusion 2014: Ensuring the Delivery of ‘Digital by Default’ #IGinclusion14

1. 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‟

2. We want our students and graduates to
1
• develop confident face to face and
online communication skills
2
• work collaboratively both
synchronously and asynchronously
3
• develop a professional online
presence
4
• use digital tools responsibly and
effectively

3. What do we mean by digital?
"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."
DFID 2012
“What is at stake isn‟t just great technology
and innovation, it‟s about helping people to
build their own future”
Prime Minister David Cameron

4. 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/

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. Student led digital newsletters
and how to guides
http://shutech.wordpress.com/

8. Working with real clients
Students also develop
employability skills such
as communication, timemanagement, project
management, relationship
building, confidence and
professionalism
shu.ac.uk/venturematrix

9. 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

10. Raise awareness that social media
interactions leave digital footprints…

11. 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

12. Discussing the
implications of a
negative digital
footprint

13. Creating guidance for students
Students can access these four resources at
http://go.shu.ac.uk/socialmedia

14. Understanding the value of
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

15. LinkedIn workshops
Creating a positive
impression

16. Personal profile | Groups | Company pages
Help others
Connect
Collaborate
Communicate
Share information
Seek information
Manage your professional identity
Look for job opportunities

17. Understanding the potential of 2nd and
3rd degree connections
Reid Hoffman 2012 LinkedIn

18. Potential to share:
blogs, web folios, presentations, project work, e-portfolios

19. The Networked Learner
Alec Couros 2008

20. workplace
community
experiences
inquiry
based
learning
work based
learning
The
Learner
peers
interests
questions
problem
based
learning
academics
Connected Learning
family

21. Maximise the potential affordances
of digital technology
Mobile
learning
Personal
learning
networks
Active
learning
Social
learning
Place-based
learning
Selfdirected
learning
Competencybased
learning

22. The advances in mobile technology
afford us with numerous apps to
connect, communicate and collaborate

23. Create your own digital toolbox
https://edshelf.com/profile/suebecks/

25. Filtering through my personal
learning network
Twitter
LinkedIn
Google+
Blogs
Key Social
Spaces for Online
Learning (SSOL)

26. Designing your PLN
• High profile
• High communication
• Low profile
• High communication
• High profile
• Low communication
• Low profile
• Low communication
Adapted from Joyce Seitzinger

27. Global digital connectedness

28. Digital connections share information and opportunities
Research
Community
engagement
Guidance
Business
engagement
Training and
skills
Leadership
development
Events and
conferences
Publications

29. Critical analysis and evaluation

30. Ongoing digital skills
development

31. Digital Inclusion
BYOD (Bring your own devices)

32. futurelab 2010:19

33. Digital literacy anatomised:
access, skills and practices
(JISC 2011)

34. Digital literacy anatomised:
practices in context
(JISC 2011)

35. Embedding Digital Skills into Education
Increasing Employability and Lifetime
Prospects
Sue Beckingham | @suebecks
Sheffield Hallam University
http://socialmedia4us.wordpress.com/