Jason Pufahl

2 Summers Masters

Digital Age Work & Learning Skills Paper

Technology Fluency Example 1:

Below is an example of a document created by me for distribution to all IT staff at the University of Connecticut. The document shows the ability to leverage certain advanced formatting options as well as a dynamic table of content and appendices.

It most strongly supports the ISTE Standards for Coaches Item 6 Item B designed to strength others professional knowledge, however it does support ISTE Standards for teachers Standard 3 as it exhibits capabilities with MS Word.

University of Connecticut Information Technology Security

Incident Response Plan

Example 2:

The following presentation was created (and delivered) by me for the Educause Security Professionals Conference this year. The presentation is created in PowerPoint. The file documents the ability to format, embed hyperlinks, embed pictures and supports ISTE Standards for Coaches Standards 4 and 6 as both speak to development of staff. Again, it also does support ISTE Standards for teachers Standard 3 as it exhibits capabilities with MS PowerPoint and presentation creation skills.

CollaborationExample 1:

This shows that a group of people are working on components of an IT strategic plan (in my current role in UConn IT) in Google Docs. I have worked on shared documents in real time with a variety of people in this list. There are 15 people participating in this specific exercise, as indicated by the circles below. This example shows the ability to create and manage documents and an overall familiarity with Google apps. This particular example is my UConn Gmail account.

I regularly utilize Google hangouts as well. I have pasted an example (albeit canned) of a conversation below as well as brief Google+ Thread. I have also pasted, a picture of a video hangout I was participating in. These both show additional proficiency in online collaboration tools such as video and chat.

All of these technologies support the ISTE Standards for Teachers all items of Standard 3 as they specifically demonstrate fluency within a platform but also across collaborative concepts.

CommunicationExample 1

This screenshot of my Twitter front page shows that I leverage that medium for information consumption as well as for, more selectively, sharing ideas or soliciting information. This required me to take advantage of my social network contacts, understanding of social network social norms, social network utilization. The ITSE Standards for Teachers Standard 3 and Standard 5 item A. Standard 5 is met as social media networking can be effectively leveraged to disseminate information and solicit feedback. It also meets ITSE Standard 4 as it indicates my understanding of social media behavioral expectations.

Example 2

This screenshot shows the website for the Information Security Office, designed to disseminate information to a broader community. This site is a reference for most things security specific and is updated regularly. This shows basic web creation and editing skills. I consider the skills fairly basic because the site is managed in Wordpress, which is a commonly used CMS designed to have content easily added into standardized templates.

This aligns most closely with the ISTE Standards for Coaches Standard 3 Item B, Standard 4 and Standard 5 item A for very similar reasons in example 1.

Information ResourcesExample 1Utilizing Google I searched for Algebra Video Lessons:

https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=algebra+video+lessonsExample 2

I was presented with the following results:

I then viewed a couple of initial hits and determined that the Khan Academy appeared to be a reputable and content rich site:

The goal of showing this sequence is simply to show google search capabilities, the ability to distinguish site quality and the capability to find and utilize applicable data.

This example most closely aligns with ISTE standards for Teachers Standard 3 Item A and D and illustrates capabilities with search engine concepts and search collections.

Ethics ChallengeIt’s important for students/learners to understand appropriate uses for technology, especially

those technologies that can have potential impact to themselves and others. Young people have a reduced concern regarding their own personal privacy and often expose parts of their own personal lives to the public that they would potentially prefer be private. People often don’t realize that the data they post, pictures for example, can contain data that can enable people to track them, infer information about whereabouts or harass them. This exposure enables others, potentially other students, to leverage that data to engage in stalking or harassment activities.

Digital CheatingAs an educator the potential for student plagiarism is likely high, however there are plagiarism

websites designed to allow for the submission and review of documents. It is important to be able to know the students capabilities or writing style sufficiently to identify likely plagiarism or cheating.

An educator has a responsibility to make sure students understand the long term risks of misusing technology. It’s likely that most students don’t realize that technology misuse such as social media posts, cheating or computer crimes can impact them as broadly as college admissions, college graduation and even eventually future employment. The responsibility of teaching students about the positive and negative aspects of the Internet and the resources available lies with anyone that serves and an educator, their peers, teachers and parents.