ED5882 - Transformative Digital Learning
| Credit points: | 03 |
| Year: | 2017 |
| Student Contribution Band: | Band |
| Administered by: | Education |
As machines, clothing, buildings, even body parts become 'smarter', humans' digital learning practices need to be anticipatory to avoid disruption. This requires anticipatory digital literacy practices that are pre-active, not reactive to sociotechnical change. This subject helps students understand what digital literacies practices they need to acquire and/or abandon to successfully adapt to new sociotechnical realities characterised by linear exponential technological change. This subject is designed to assist students in successfully using anticipatory digital literacies practices to engage in strategic foresight exercises. By engaging with digital technologies, students will learn how to use a foresight methodology to create viable solutions to personal, local or global issues. They will also map preferable futuresover probable onesto identify the potential barriers and opportunities these futures present and engage in possibility thinking to design innovative solutions, products, services or ideas that satisfy emerging needs. A student who is pre-active can use this evidence-based methodology to aggressively identify problems before they happen and view them as viable opportunities for change from within. This kind of digital learning is about engaging in transformative practices that lead to praxis or the redesign of existing pre-active meaning-making practices from one context to another.
Learning Outcomes
- demonstrate specialised, knowledge and/or professional practice of using futures thinking in a digital age;
- learn how to foster anticipatory dispositions and engage in trend analysis to work for your preferred future(s);
- understand why acquiring anticipatory digital literacies practices is critical to understanding the interplay of linear and cyclic change to identify hard, almost certain, trends to take anticipatory action in the present;
- engage critically with futures thinkings scenario planning method and using a foresight methodology to navigate digital disruption;
- autonomously apply expert knowledge and research skills to address a complex personal, local or global challenge by designing, implementing and evaluating a preferable future(s) over a probable one(s).
| Assumed Knowledge: | Students will have high level academic literacy, including the ability to research, analyse and synthesise scholarly readings. Students will be able to formulate and communicate complex ideas in academic writing genres. |
| Prerequisites: | ALLOW CONCURRENT ENROLMENT; ED5880,ED5911, ED5914 AND ED5190 |
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| External, Study Period 1 | |
| Census Date 23-Mar-2017 | |
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| Method of Delivery: | WWW - LearnJCU |
| Assessment: | foresight project to build capacity in foresight methods application and using/acquiring proficiency in anticipatory digital literacies practices to address a personal, local or global issue identified (40%); essay: using the six pillars of futures thinking to recover agency and create the world in which you wish to live (30%); reflection on subject learning via discussion board posts (30%). |
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