Digital Productivity
Digital productivity is how you use your digital skills to accomplish tasks. To use basic productivity software. At higher levels, the capacity to choose, adapt and personalise ICT applications and systems; to critically assess the benefits/constraints of ICT applications and approaches; to design and implement ICT solutions; to recover from failures; to stay up to date with ICT as it evolves; to adopt computational modes of thinking (coding, algorithms, etc).
Student learning outcome examples
- 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
- 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)
