Workshop Part 2: Digital Descriptors for Your Subject
AIM:
- Practise how to use or adapt digital descriptors
- Explore ways to develop digital descriptors
Depending on the context and discipline, the existing descriptors developed in the project can be used, they can be adapted, or new descriptors can be created.
Consultation with industry is recommended.
suggested content structure:
2.1. Provide an overview of different ways to develop digital descriptors for subjects
You don’t have to create Digital Capabilities Descriptors from scratch. The project has developed a number of digital descriptors for domains across Journalism, Design, Music Industry, and Engineering. You can check these first to see if any are relevant. You can use these as is or adapt them for your subjects.
If there isn’t an existing digital descriptor, you can create your own for key domains in your discipline.
2.2. Walkthrough the key parts of the learning model
Present an example/s of digital capability descriptors.
Walkthrough the project’s method of building the digital capability descriptors model.
Figure 5: Building the Model
The process to develop Digital Capabilities Descriptors for your program/subject is to:
- Identify key domains that are relevant to your program/subject in your discipline’s work practices that are critical to students’ job readiness
- Check to see if there are existing digital descriptors that fit or could be adapted
- If there are no existing digital descriptors, then identify the functional, perceptual and adaptive affordances of each domain
2.3A. Participants select domains from existing descriptors
Participants to familiarise themselves with the existing descriptors and select which ones are relevant to their subjects.
Prompt: Which of these digital capabilities are most important in your program/subject?
- Participants to look through existing domains and select which are relevant.
- Review the digital affordances for each selected domain and discuss on tables whether/what adaptation is required.
2.3B. Participants identify key domains for subject and develop digital descriptors
Note: that you can just do activity 3A or you can extend it by having participants create their own digital descriptors
Prompt: What digital capabilities are most important in your program/subject?
- Participants to write down 3 domains of digital capability for their graduates.
- Encourage participants to share their domains with their tables and/or the workshop group.
- Participants to take each domain (or select one domain) and write down what might be the functional, perceptual and adaptive affordances.
Resource: Affordance Cards
Affordance Cards have been created for you to print and use in the workshop. Print them double sided to have the card on the front and instructions on the back.
Ideas for further discussion questions:
- How do you currently engage with industry?
- What are ways that you could consult and engage industry in identifying domains and updating or developing digital capability descriptors?
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