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Virtual Spaces: Designing
for Opportunities
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Southern Cross University
‘Social Justice and Social Media’
Community Driven Seminar Series
October 9 2014 - Gold Coast Campus
Professor Mike Keppell
Executive Director
Australian Digital Futures Institute
Director, Digital Futures - CRN
2. ‘the virtual world
is human in design
but is it human in
experience or the
ability to deliver
better social
outcomes’
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3. Overview
n Context
n Next generation
students
n Virtual world is human
in design…
n …But is it human in
experience
n …Deliver better social
outcomes
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23. What is Digital Identity?
n Safe and engaged digital
citizenship
n Appropriate and
responsible technology use
n Digital wellness
n http://
digitalcitizenship.net/
Home_Page.html
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24. What is Digital Identity?
n How we portray,
represent ourselves
online
n Rich ways of
communication
n Digital etiquette
n Digital ethics
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27. Developing Literacies
n Employable graduates
need to be digitally literate
n Learners need to be
supported by staff to
develop academic digital
literacies
n Professional
development is vital in
developing digital literacies
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30. Learning Space Literacies
nLearning space literacies
are the knowledge, skills
and attitudes that are
required to recognise,
utilise and adapt
distributed learning
spaces so that they allow
the personalised learner to
engage with their learning
(Keppell, 2014).
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35. Reducing anxiety in
children going to hospital
‣ Marijke Shanley
(2005) - Master of
Nursing Thesis
entitled: A
multimedia
approach to
preparing children
and their families
for hospitalisation.
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43. Being a Personalised
Learner
n Be a lifelong learner in
physical and virtual
networks
n Build a robust digital
identity as your future
CV
n Play with new
technology like you’re
back in kindergarten
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44. Being a Personalised
Learner
n Constantly enhance and
elaborate your digital
literacies
n Fine-tune your
knowledge of diverse
spaces to determine
their suitability for
different activities.
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45. I can see a day in the not too
distant future (if it’s not
already here) where your
“digital footprint” will carry
far more weight than
anything you might include in
a resume or CV (Betcher,
2009)
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http://chrisbetcher.com/tag/
digitalfootprint/