Questions to aid IT adoption

As career practitioners, we need to stay updated with technology. Not only is this a PD requirement for being a CDANZ or CATE member under e...

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Two ways to digitally upskill

It is expected today by employers that all workers are digitally competent. There has been an "accelerated technological development in...

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Digital competence, jobs and ANZSCO

Digital agency is the collective ability of a person to be “able to use technologies for self-identified purposes and to be able to modify,...

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How to test our keyboarding speed

If you ever want to check your keyboarding speed, there is one simple site I use regularly for clients to assess their own speed on the keys...

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Keyboarding is a time skill

Following on from my last post ( here ), another element of digital competence is keyboarding. We could call it 'a key component' th...

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Digitally incompetent

Computerisation is a skill now required in most jobs available. Digital competence, or skills with computers, have transformed the tasks tha...

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The Myth of Digital Natives

Many of us drank the Kool-Aid on this one: the concept of digital natives. The idea behind the digital natives concept was that those bo...

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Assess our own typing speed

I have written about typing speed a number of times before ( here ), but I don't think I have mentioned the group of people who are ex...

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Online typing survey

I have posted a few pieces on keyboarding ( here ), but in my investigations, I found an online typing survey which is being run by three ...

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Keyboarding speed measures

Average words per minute of typists (Dhakal, Feit, Kristensson, & Oulasvirta , 2018, p. 5) While we would probably tend to think th...

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Free Online Typing Tests

Some recent research on typing speeds made me review some 60 second online free typing tests in English, so I thought I would share with y...

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Typing, typing, typing

Average Typing Speed Per Minute of All Levels (Winslow, 2014) With my interest in digital competence, I have been looking for a measu...

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Data Never Sleeps 5.0

Following on from last year, Domo has once more published internet consumption / generation / creation data by the minute. The sum of digi...

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Moving Digital Literacy to Digital Competence

We have literacy - our word competence - and numeracy - our numerical competence - as measures of our ability to function in today's s...

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What if students don't have digital competence?

As I teach both for a Uni and for a Polytechnic (the latter is similar to a Community College but we deliver applied degrees and post-grad...

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