I presented this at MobiLearnAsia 2013 on 2 October, 2013 in Singapore.

1. www.le.ac.uk
Mobile and Social Media:
The power of the learning network and
digital literacy
Terese Bird
tmb10@le.ac.uk
Learning Technologist and
SCORE Research Fellow
Institute of Learning Innovation
MobiLearnAsia 2013
Singapore
2-3 October, 2013 Photo by cindy47452, Flickr

2. What shall we talk about?
• Digital literacy
• Academic Digital
Literacy
• Digital Learning
Literacy
• Examples of tools
Photo by xdxd_vx_xdxd on Flickr

3. http://www.le.ac.uk/manufacturingpasts
Example of digitally-literate research project

4. Digital Literacy
• “Digital literacy is the ability to understand and use
information in multiple formats from a wide range of sources
when it is presented via computers.” (Gilster, 1997)
• Technology such as mobile devices and social media are now
part of our life and language, and should be included in
learning:
– 24/7 flexibility & efficiency
– Further reach to experts
– Ethos and Ethics
– Lifelong learning
– Careers

5. Careers
• “As mobile platforms become more
complex, employers are increasingly looking for
people who can demonstrate a foundation of mobile
specific skills and experience to be sure of delivering
success.” – CWJobs.co.uk
http://www.v3.co.uk/v3-uk/news/2276691/it-job-seekers-under-pressure-to-
learn-mobile-development-skills
Photo by
TheDEMO
Conference
on Flickr

6. Academic Digital Literacy
• “Knowledge and insight to strategically utilise
the institutional, public social, and various
hardware technologies in personal academic
learning and research.” TBird

7. Academic Digital Literacy
• Learning skills
• Research skills
• Social media skills
• Academic digital profile
• New hardware skills
(mobile, webcam, microphone, video camera)
• Insight to recognise and utilise benefits of these for
own development

8. Recent research:
Manufacturing Pasts
Wordpress

9. Academic Digital Profile:
Cristina Costa on Flickr

10. The academic research cycle
Social media: A guide for researchers (2011), p15

11. Historical
research tasks
ON THE INTERNET
•Community
•Digital materials
•Discover
•Disseminate
Sengaw.wordpress.com

12. What tools to do these tasks?
• Knowledge creation – offline research, blogging
• Discussing – Twitter, Facebook, Google+
• Curating – Scoop.it, Pinterest, Flickr
• Presenting – Prezi, Slideshare
• ‘Advertising’ – all of the above
Private / Professional / Collective Uses

13. Learning literacy of 1973
• Library search (card catalogue)
• How to take notes
• Citing and referencing
• Numeracy
• Discussion and debate
• Writing (essays and reports)
• Laboratory skills and equipment knowledge
• Presenting (often reading a paper in front of others)
Photo by starmanseries, Flickr

14. Learning literacy 2013
• Library search (online and various journal searches)
• How to take notes annotate e-books, recorded lectures
• Citing and referencing articles, blogs, YouTube vids
• Numeracy (including apps, games, programmes)
• Discussion and debate (offline and online)
• Writing (offline and online: blogging, microblogging)
• Laboratory equipment (added technology)
• Presenting (Powerpoint, Prezi, Slideshare, Webinar)
Photo by
hugovk on
Flickr

15. ‘Networked learner’ (Drexler, 2010)

16. Institutional
Environment
Modules:
•Documents
•Activities
•Admin
•Library
Instructor
Email
Student
University Library
•Books
•Ebooks
•Subscribed
journals
Special
collection
s
(digitised)
•Special
collections
Asynchronous
Sharing
knowledge, discussi
on, organisation
•Institutional open-access
articles, theses
•Articles
via Google
Scholar
•Open
Coursewar
e
•iTunes U
•YouTube
•TED Talks
•Slideshare
(Presentations)
•LinkedIn
(business)
•Academia.edu
•Facebookf
or learning
•Pinterest/Flic
kr (Images)
•Twitter (API)
•Scoop.itC
urated
sites, blog
posts, arti
cles, resea
rch
Synchronous
Sharing
knowledge, discussi
on, organisation
•Webinars •Skype
•Blogging
Digital Learning Literacy
(Bird, 2013)
Face-to-face connection
Fellow
students

17. Digital Literacies Development
Framework (Beetham, 2013)

18. Twitter– personal or collective account

19. Twitter
• Follow experts
• Ask a question, get answers from experts
• Get ideas
• Hottest news (use the search)
• ‘Faster’ than email
• Announcements
• ‘New post’ tweets
• Include the world
• Attend conference virtually

20. Flickr

21. Pinterest

22. Facebook - Page

23. Facebook – Group

24. Wikipedia – no promotion allowed

25. YouTube

26. Vimeo – longer than 10 minutes

27. Slideshare (‘Slidesharetbirdcymru’) for
these slides

28. Academia.edu

29. Feeling overwhelmed? Try one new thing
“No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow
you progress, you are still way ahead of everyone
who isn’t trying.”
-- Tony Robbins

30. Thank you! –Terese Bird tmb10@le.ac.uk
• Beetham, H. (2013). The Design Studio / Literacies development
framework.doc. The Design Studio Wiki. Retrieved October 02, 2013, from
http://jiscdesignstudio.pbworks.com/w/file/40474958/Literacies
development framework.doc
• Cann, A. J., Dimitriou, K., & Hooley, T. (2011). Social media: A guide for
researchers | Research Information Network. Retrieved from
http://www.rin.ac.uk/our-work/communicating-and-disseminating-
research/social-media-guide-researchers
• Drexler, W. (2010). AJET 26(3) Drexler (2010) - The networked student model
for construction of personal learning environments: Balancing teacher control
and student autonomy. Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 26(3).
Retrieved from http://www.ascilite.org.au/ajet/ajet26/drexler.html
• Gilster, P. (1997). digital literacy (1st ed.). New York: John Wiley & Sons.