Digital Productivity
Students can access a range of productivity software tools via the digital workplace.
Learning objectives
- Use basic productivity software (text editing, presentation, spreadsheet, basic image editing)
- Use digital tools to carry out tasks effectively and productively, with attention to quality
- Work fluently across a range of tools, platforms and applications to achieve complex tasks
Higher level
- Choose devices, applications, software and systems relevant to different tasks having assessed their benefits and limitations
- Manage projects, schedules and plans, using digital tools to organise self and others
- Adopt and adapt digital tools to personal requirements such as accessibility
- Critically assess how digital technology including generative artificial intelligence is changing practices in professional contexts and in society
Activities
Online tools
- Put the following questions on a slide/whiteboard
- Ask the students to pick a productivity tool they currently use and answer the questions:
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- What are the advantages and disadvantages of this technology (could be analytical about their selection) based on purpose?
- What types of productivity tools are you going to need as a future health professional?
Tool selection
- Provide students with this list of study tools.
- Split them into groups and give them a tool per group.
- Have each group assess the tool and present their answers to the class.
Reading and reflection
- Ask the students to read this paper
- Ask them to write a short reflection on how digital productivity has changed since this paper was written, and what tools they expect to use as health professionals
Resources
- QUT Software and Learning Tools (QUT Resource)
- QUT Websites and App (QUT Resource)