 Felly, mae'n gŵr mewn gwirio'n mynd i weld yma i gael yma i'r ffordd, ydych chi'n gweithio'n gweithio ar y cyfnod. Felly, mae'n gweithio ar y cyfnod yn dweud, ond rwy'n gallu gweithio'n gweithio ar y cyfnod. Felly, mae'n gweithio'n gweithio ar y cyfnod. Mae'n gweithio ar y cyfnod. Mae'n gymryd yn cael ei gweithio ar gyfer deitio'n gweithio ar y cyfnod. It will be the first to welcome you here to Edinburgh and to this year's Alhanyl Conference and in the moment when I introduce this year's co-chairs we want to give them a really warm welcome. So we're going to get started by practicing straight away and waking up. So if you could just put your hands together and give a very warm welcome to everyone in the room. That was pretty good but I think we have a big hall to fill today. Hopefully in a moment when we welcome our three co-chairs we can do even better. My name is Maureen Deebwell, and together with the Board of Trustees of ALT and my staff team, welcome to this year's annual conference 2019. It was a long time ago that I first stood on the stage at a site visit on a very rainy day, and I was imagining what this room would be like filled with our community, with our delegates for three days. Now, more than 18 months later that day is here and it's become a reality, and I am so thrilled that we are able to bring the conference here this year, and that all together we'll be able to hopefully have one, two or three very interesting, thought-provoking days. I want to welcome a number of people as I introduce the co-chairs, and also give a shout out to all the volunteers that have been involved in making this conference happen. Many of you, I think more than half of you are speaking at our conference this year, and it's a real proud moment to see so many participants engage, share and bring their knowledge to this event. I sometimes get a little bit frustrated with sitting in wood panel rooms talking about the future of education that must surely arrive at some point now, but I feel in this particular venue that we can learn from history and build on what's come before in order to shape the future. I was a little bit disheartened in the last week that things have looked quite so bleak, and I'm hoping for me at least, but also for every one of you, that the next three days will be a very positive and warm experience, and that all of you can play a role in making this a welcoming and inclusive conference like our community is all year round. And now it is my privilege to introduce three people to you who have worked tirelessly for over a year, chaired every committee, approved every slide deck, set agendas, picked keynote speakers, helped us make this venue work for us, and who have been working behind the scenes trying to really build the vision at the heart of this year's conference. Now, I'm sure many of you put a lot of hours in as a volunteer in one way or another, and that you know exactly what it feels like when you work behind the scenes for a whole year to make something happen. Sometimes for a lot longer, but in this case for over a year. And so I think you can all put yourselves in the shoes of the three people I'm going to be introducing now. We've been waiting for this moment, walking up to this stage, and hoping that the conference that they are co-chairing will be enjoyable and rewarding for you as it has been for them to volunteer. So we have had a practice run, but now I hope that you can give the loudest, almost all-see welcome to our three co-chairs, Melissa Hyton, Louise Jones and Keith Smyth. Thank you very much. It's so lovely to see you all here, Louise and Keith, and I have been working, marrying us a lot of credit, but I think you all know that most of the credit goes to the old team for organizing the conference, but also to the many volunteers, the committees who've put together the social programme and the programme of workshops and presentations that you're going to see. It's my privilege to welcome you back to Edinburgh University. So to welcome you to Edinburgh University or back to Edinburgh University. We last hosted the conference at Edinburgh University in 2001. I'm very pleased that we're able to do that again. The university has a long history, but we also have a long association with ALT, and we have a long-standing relationship, a long-standing commitment to what this conference is about, and I'm very pleased that you're able to be here. So as well as providing a venue a couple of times, and this time, we've also provided some top-quality speakers over the years. So our principal, Sir Tim O'Shea, was a keynote in 2006. Geoff Haywood was a keynote in 2014. Sean Bain was a keynote in 2017. And this year there's more than 20 University of Edinburgh colleagues presenting at the conference. I'm very pleased. We also have a long-standing commitment to Seamalt. Some of us have had our Seamalts for an incredibly long time, it feels, but others are shiny new and getting their awards at the conference this year. I'm very pleased that we have so many Seamalt holders at University of Edinburgh. It's an important part of what we do in the university to ensure the professionalisation of learning technology and the professionalisation of the staff who work across the university in all the schools. And it's that discipline of reflecting on the evaluation and the context and the policy environment in which we work that ensures that they are able to work as part of a community of shared knowledge within the institution. And I think that that gives University of Edinburgh business advantage. So I see that the institution is investing in learning technologists and the professionalisation of learning technology as a profession, as a discipline, a history, one with a growing community of scholarship is very much part of what the university is committed to. I'm also very happy to welcome you to McEwen Hall. It's a fabulous venue. The name McEwen, yes it is the beer company. William McEwen paid for this building in 1897 with the profits from much pale ale, export and 80 shillings. And you may be able to tell that it's recently renovated. We had 19 miles of scaffolding in here so that the conservators could clean and restore all the paintings. So it gives us a beautiful venue. The central piece of art up above you is known as the Temple of Fame and it has in it the names and pictures of muses, philosophers and some of Edinburgh's alumni. I'm going to ask you to look up just now for a moment and see if you can see the inscription. The inscription says, Wisdom is the principal thing therefore get wisdom and with all thy getting get understanding exalt her and she shall bring thee to honour. That's Proverbs 4.7. And you might see this proverb in other places. It's around the dome of the Manchester Central Library and the Library of Congress. And it tells us something about knowledge and education and how they have their place but that it's wisdom that makes people successful. So knowledge is the accumulation of information. Understanding is the grasping comprehension interpretation of information wisdom and the application of information that one understands. So wisdom is learning how to take the knowledge given and apply it to our lives in a workable manner so that it benefits us and it benefits the lives of others. So perhaps the message of the venue for the conference is get and share wisdom and get and share beer. So I've asked you to look up and I'm also going to ask you to look down as you leave the building and you head across to the other sessions in Upton Tower as you go out of the front door of McEwen Hall look down and you'll see one of our newly commissioned pieces of public art. It's a work by Susan Collis and it's entitled The Next Big Thing is a series of little things and it's a meandering series of little shiny dots that sometimes go unnoticed. And that reminds us that although it's tempting to think about the big ideas and it's exciting to imagine a technology or a magic pill or a silver bullet finding that one thing that we're doing wrong and that can be corrected by a single change or a new technology and improve the world we work in don't ignore the small things. There's a steady drip of work that carries down the things that were set in stone and changes the shape of what we do. That's often where the success starts. I think for a lot of us working in our institutions although we try to imagine what the big new technology might be that will change things a lot of what we do every day is actually a series of quite small things just working with the people in our institutions to just make little steps and change what we're doing. So University of Edinburgh, we continue our contribution to the conference this year. I'm delighted to see so many colleagues from Edinburgh attending the conference, either colleagues who work here some students who study here and any of you who might be alumni and have graduated from here or might think that you might become students or staff in Edinburgh. Please do enjoy the venue. There's a big group of Edinburgh staff presenting and delivering sessions. Please do meet them and talk with them about their work. We'll be talking about our partnership with Wikimedia, the work we've done in lecture recording, improving our VLEs, extending our online learning, improving accessibility, the work we're doing with learning analytics and digital skills, computational notebooks and our very good friends from Idina are sponsors of the Learning Technology Awards on Wednesday night. So to just welcome you again to University of Edinburgh, I'm very pleased to be sharing with Louise and Keith. I've asked you to look up and look down and I think Louise is going to ask you to look from side to side. Good morning everyone. As you know, my name is Louise Jones and I'm delighted to be one of the co-chairs here with you all. I particularly like to say a big welcome to you all. We have 471 delegates over the three days and even more are going to be joining us online and the fact that we've got such a record number of people joining us this year is testament to the fact that you present the role that you do. The role of the learning technologist has an increased awareness now across all of the education sectors and that's something that I think that you realise is becoming a very valued and a very credible role as well. And that's also part of the work that Ulta have done as a very credible organisation championing the role of being a learning technologist. So we have a lot to say thank you to them for. So to get you warmed up and I'm quite well known for my little warm-ups I just wanted to ask you all has anybody here played ping pong? Yes, can you put your hand up? Okay. But have any of you played verbal ping pong before? I don't think so. So what I'd like you to do is I'd like you to stand up. Yeah, stand up. And I would like you to partner up with somebody and when you do I would like you to firstly shake their hand and introduce yourself so hello. How are you? Okay, you're in a dream. Oh hi. Okay. So you are now going to have again a verbal ping pong. We've looked up, we've looked down and now it's time to look side to side. So Marin and I are going to give you a little demonstration of how this is going to work. So I'm going to serve first and when I say ping pong and then when I say pong ping so now it's over to you for 10 seconds. The person on the right is going to serve first and they can say either ping and pong and then we're going to switch over. So away you go. Okay. That's fantastic. And now I would like you to switch over so the other person can serve. Fantastic. You're all doing so well. So I'm just going to spice things up a little bit and we're going to do this in a series of three. So I'm just going to demonstrate. Ping ping ping. Ping pong ping. Ping pong. Okay and again the person who served first in a series of three. Away you go. Okay and now you can switch over and have another go with the other person serving. Okay. Okay. Now the smiles and the laughs on your faces are incredible and yes this is a bit of fun but there's also a little bit of meaning behind it. So when I looked around I could see some of you thinking really hard about replying. Some of you were taking a risk and batting it back straight away and firing it back over. Some of you were like what is this all about? So the reason I mention this is because actually it's really relevant to remember that this is three days of time for you, time for you to learn something new, try something new, take a risk, open your mind to something and I want you to hold on to that as you enjoy the three days. So it's my absolute pleasure to pass you on now to my other co-chair, Keith, who's going to give you some information about the scholarship award. Thank you. Thank you very much indeed. I discovered I'm not very good at ping pong. My name's Keith Smyth from the University of the Highlands and Islands and like Louise and Melissa I'm absolutely thrilled to be co-chairing this year's conference on inclusive and convivial activity. I'd like to say something very brief about ALT and the ALT conference as an inclusive and collegiate and supportive one. This is evident in the way in which we've tried to provide a range of virtual participation opportunities for colleagues that aren't able to be with us and we look forward to engaging with colleagues who will be joining us online over the next few days. But it's also evident in the work that we do through the Doug Gowan Fellowship Scheme. The Doug Gowan Memorial Scheme was established in memory of Doug Gowan, former president and chair of ALT and it provides support to enable learning technologists who may not otherwise be able to come to the conference to attend the ALT annual conference. This year we had a record number of applicants for Doug Gowan Fellowships and we're absolutely thrilled to be able to have awarded 12 fellowships that have brought 12 learning technologists and various backgrounds working various contexts to this year's conference. So to our 12 Doug Gowan Fellows for 2019, welcome, welcome to your conference and we're going to get our colleagues around for applause. We also extend a warm welcome to our exhibitors and our sponsors. Exhibitors and sponsors are absolutely crucial to enabling the ALT conference to run. We encourage you to explore the exhibitors and the technologies demoing, the services they're offering, have discussions about what they're trying to do, to address particular challenges in the digital education space. Each of the mornings of the conference we will welcome one or more of our exhibitors. All of our exhibitors are member organisations of ALT and are playing a valuable role in contributing to the work of the association. And our first exhibitor that we'll welcome today is Vvox and we have Joe from Vvox who's going to join us. So we'll give a warm round of applause to Joe. Welcome. We'll leave you and Joe's hands for the next couple of minutes to explain a particular tool we'll be using across the conference of the next few days. Thank you, Joe. Cool, thank you. Yeah, my name's Joe. I'm the Customer Success Manager for Education at Vvox. Vvox is a student response system primarily used for Q&A and polling in lectures, in workshops, seminars, etc. Today we're going to be using it in a conference environment. So it's going to be used for Q&A and some live polling throughout the plenary sessions here today. Firstly I just wanted to thank ALT for having us back for the second year. It's a real privilege to be here. Unfortunately I wasn't able to make it last year so this is my first one and I'm really excited about being here today. In order to take part, in order to ask questions all you need to do is to join the Vvox session on your phone, on a laptop and to get connected all you need to do is open up a web browser and go to Vvox.app and then you'll be asked to enter a meeting ID to join the session. The meeting ID for the session that's happening throughout is 103 237 391 instructions with the meeting ID dotted around so there's one over there one over there and there's also one down here so if you forget it during the day it'll be there. We've also put out on all of the chairs a card that's got instructions for joining the session so again please feel free to take those with you or leave them on the chairs for the next people to come in. So yeah hopefully everyone's starting to be able to get connected now. Again all you need to do is to go to Vvox.app within a web browser and then enter the meeting ID. On the back of the cards that you'll see on the chairs we've also got a little bit of a fun alt themed crossword which is welcome for people to complete. Once you've completed those feel free to come down and visit us on our stand and return to us. I've been told there are prizes for returning completed crosswords so yeah please go about doing that. Once you're into the session you'll see a screen that looks a bit like this. You can join the Q&A by hitting the speech bubble icon that's down the bottom and that will take you to a screen where you'll be able to enter comments, ask questions. Throughout the session the chair people will have an iPad with them so they'll be able to see all the questions coming in and be able to address them accordingly. We've also put in there a feedback survey. It would be really appreciated by the event organisers if you can complete that during the course of the next three days. Yeah that feedback is really invaluable to them. We're not going to run a quick poll because we're running a little bit behind schedules so let me just finish off by saying really pleased to be back here for another year and I hope everyone really enjoys the conference. So now it's nearly time for our keynote so it just stays me to do a few last housekeeping announcements. If you haven't already voted the Learning Technologist of the Year Award Community Choice Award is open for votes until midday tomorrow so please do vote. You have a printed programme in the guide you have received when you've registered but hopefully you will use the online platform to plan your day and make the most of the sessions. All of the sessions are either here in the hall or in Appleton Tower which is a short walk. If you're not sure where to go there is a map on the back of your printed programme and when you open the back page there is a layout map of Appleton Tower and there will also be staff and helpers in hand to show you the way. As far as we know and this is something that I'm not sure we've experienced before there's no changes to today's programme at least none that we know of. There are volunteer session chairs in all the sessions so if any issues occur please do ask them in the first instance and do please come to the conference help desk and register this morning if there's anything we can do to help. When we're hosting nearly 500 people over three and a half days there's always something that's bound to go wrong so we're here to help and manage any issues that arise as well as we can. An important announcement is that no fire drills are scheduled here in Mercun Hall throughout the entire conference. If there is a fire alarm it is not a drill and please take a moment now to look around the hall and look behind you to make yourself familiar with the nearest exit. Fire stewards will be on hand to direct you to evacuate the building. There is however, excitingly, a fire drill planned for tomorrow morning at 11 o'clock in the other building more of that tomorrow morning. There's no other housekeeping announcements so I will now hand back to Melissa Hyten to in a moment introduce our keynote speaker this morning so please put your hands together one more time to welcome Melissa back to the stage. Thank you again Sue, are you ready? We're going to get the conference off to a great start. Sue is our first keynote speaker. Sue Beckingham is principal lecturer in information systems in the Department of Computing at Sheffield Hallam University. She's a senior fellow of HEA. She's a fellow of CEDA. She has her C-Molt qualification certification. You may know about her and her life because she shared a lot about herself and her personal learning journey. Through social media, she talks a lot about her personal learning journey as a lifelong learner. She has a TEDx talk that I highly recommend. Great for this venue. She's spoken a lot about wisdom and we have wisdom up around the ceiling. Wisdom understanding learning and I expect she's going to take us on a journey around that here today. She's an internationally acclaimed expert on digital networking. She specializes in leveraging the power of social networks to develop the personal learning networks and employability of students. She's the co-founder of the highly praised learning and teaching in higher education weekly Twitter chat LTHE chat which many of you may participate in. I'm sure you're familiar with and attracts participants from all around the world. In 2015, she was selected by GISC as one of the top 50 influencers in social media in higher education. She's an advocate of both informal and formal learning and today she's going to speak to us about revisiting the affordances and implications of interconnectedness and socially mediated publicness. She's been speaking for about 45 minutes and will take questions after that but please give her your full attention and as she's speaking, think about how what she's saying applies to your own lives and the places in which you work. Thank you very much. This is exciting. So, this is an overview of what I've proposed to talk about. As an advocate of social media I can and do wax lyrical about the potential of digital spaces. However, as I started to research what I was going to talk about for this conference I wanted to look at the data the dialogue and the actual doing and learning analytics is something that's becoming very popular with universities some are further ahead than others but the whole data thing really got me even more curious as I started to research my talk. So I'm going to take you on a bit of a journey some of what I'm going to talk about I'm going to skate over quite fast the resources to look at and revisit later there's a lot of guidance in there so don't think I'm trying to rush past it but I just wanted to put them in and I will share the presentation through slide share and of course it will be shared through Alts and recorded as well. References will be found in the footnotes of the presentation so I've not put references actually in all of the slides any images that aren't cited are from Pixabay and they're free for use just the people now. So in 1999 Douglas Adams gave us some suggestions about how to stop worrying and learn to love the internet I said that anything that gets invented after your 30s is against the natural order of things I think we'll all argue that we'll disagree with that although Snapchat still is something I struggle with despite all the help from Suzanne. Sheila, the chair of Ault recently blogged and said I think when our world is in such a state of flux it's important to ensure that ethics in developing criticality are at the heart of education we need to be questioning the validity and basis of everything just now and I took that advice on board so I'm going to start with some future predictions taken from the past so in 1975 Seacard said a full analysis of all its implications privacy in computers the skills of the psychologist the anthropologist, the sociologist, the lawyer the political scientist and ultimately the philosopher will be needed and I think that's very true and it's true still to this day the computer is widely feared it constitutes a threat to the middle class employment and we're talking about technology there's a fear the internet of things about is that going to replace jobs the all concerns that still continue if you've read 1984 the telescreen in the room was something that was actually going to be listening fast forward the smart TV listening into everything you say a couple of years ago there was a lot of concern about what it was actually doing and in their terms and conditions Samsung were saying please be aware and yet we're moving towards now in America, St Louis University are giving students echo dots as FAQs as a means to gathering information that they can just ask those questions how secure is all of this I think we're still trying to find out in no sense of place in 1986 Meroids imagined this situation where if all the walls were brought down and we were all in one open space what would that look like what would we hear and it gives this scenario it would be somewhere where we could hear what teachers were saying what people were saying to the children politicians having one drink too many if we fast forward we have Facebook I'll say no more on that for the minute Howard Reingold in 1993 predicted what might happen when you went into the supermarket and the data that might be collected over the course of time and then put on an optical disc and sold as a marketing tool how many people have loyalty cards that's exactly what it does whether they sell it or not well we know that there is use there and then grows in 1999 was predicting the millions of embedded electronic measuring devices that would probe and monitor what we're doing we fast forward smart technology the internet of things is happening now there are all sorts of devices that are monitoring what we're doing and people are buying these putting them in the houses fast forward there's a smart fridge I don't know whether anybody's got one now John Lewis is selling them at 2,749 pounds but they provide access to the internet you may have read it in the paper a month ago Dorothy her account which her account has now been closed down but she was a young girl if you didn't hear the story she actually had a mobile device confiscated because she wasn't concentrating when she was cooking a meal and actually set something on fire so she then tried to contact her friends through a Wii and various other devices and they were confiscated and her last resort was the fridge it's quite a bit of initiative really something my daughters would do and there's concerns about the consequences of computers and internet continue so bear with me because I'm going to just take you through a bit of a journey of some of those concerns because although the concerns about social media are apt and really relevant to today's age we've had concerns for a long time and some of those concerns are still with us and there's things that we need to be able to understand and have conversations with our students our colleagues, our family really gets the points where they know what's dangerous and what isn't so the dark web versus the deep web the dark web is the bit that we really need to concern ourselves about the deep web is where things are hidden but hidden for the right reasons and if we're thinking about online banking medical records we would hope that they would be safe and not be exposed to the public and obviously the surface web is where we're using the worldwide web ourselves and there are social consequences of the internet use and there's the dystopian view and the utopian view so on the one hand people have talked about cats and rice wrote the internet has bleak consequences but it also has overwhelming potential and there is both there is no one or the other and on privacy Weber talks about those that argue in favour of post privacy so if privacy was abandoned and we shared everything this utopian view then wouldn't that be better and yet on the other side the defenders of privacy have quite rightly fears about what that might mean talking about totality totality I can't say that word and dictatorship if anybody's read about Bentham's panoptican prison this goes back to the 1700s it was a prison where it was circular not similar to this room where the guard would be in the middle the prisoners couldn't see the guard so they never knew whether they were being watched or not watched and people have taken this concept and looked at how information systems could be using that to take our data unknowingly to ourselves I'm just skating through a few quotes over the years and these date back to the 80s and the 90s this fear of data valence, disinformation the super panoptican electronic panoptican panoptican sort are all talking about the control and the worry about surveillance and in today's age if we think about it these could be the things that are actually covertly tracking keystrokes of stuff what are they looking at on the internet it's all possible parents as you know can monitor what the children are doing and even public transport cards the monitoring the movements and tracking what we're doing and where we're going but one way to challenge this man and colleagues looked at an inverse panopticans of sous surveillance as they called it so they flipped that over from the french words below and to watch so how could these technologies help us so it may be that we become the surveyors of the surveyors surveying the surveyors so that could be customers photographing shopkeepers police officers in the news where that's actually happened people taking videos where police have enforced and been brutal to people that they've got in their hands and how could this be used in our classrooms by students something to consider students can record what we're doing hopefully we're not doing anything in the classroom that we wouldn't be proud of it's something to think about so this idea of equivalence villains or counter villains I'm sure Theresa will tell me that's not how you pronounce it if you're listening we're supposed to bring power to the people so Weber talks about google glasses I don't know if anybody managed to ever get a pair but they've kind of been and gone and done their day but people were worried people were suspicious if you walked around with google glasses are you filming me and you're looking at the pictures and then we think about the filter bubble if you've not read this book it's definitely worth looking at and this is where invisible algorithmics edit the web we know and experience all those of us that use facebook that we don't actually see everything that's posted we certainly don't see it in the order that it's been posted but the internet's exactly the same if you sit down with a friend and google something you might be quite surprised you'll not get exactly the same results you've served what the computer google thinks you ought to know based on previous searches and there's filter bubbles and echo chambers that can both increase exposure to diverse perspectives but they can also create ideological segregation and this research that Flaxman has actually found that there's both it can actually bring us the things that we see on the internet whether that's through social media or through the internet can do both and if you're not scared yet then you need to buy this book it's coming out on 17 September the permanent record by Edward Snowden so going on to data a day in data it's quite frightening and staggering the amount of data that we've got 200 million tweets 294 billion emails oh my goodness if anybody could ban anything I think it would be the email or at least revisit what that should look like and there's various others infographics that portray how much you've shared in the internet minute you may have seen these before but it's increasing when you look at it like for like over the years it's increasing the number of websites are increasing a million new internet users come online every day that's 11 people per second if we look at Facebook Facebook captures around 600 terabytes of data from its users that's absolutely huge what information is that actually capturing so to some extent we're drowning in data and I'm sure if you look at these examples the reports that we've got to read the notifications the information that we have in meetings pre-meetings, post-meetings et cetera it's a concern how many people have two screens at work I'm actually quite jealous of these two screens because the bigger than mine but the objective of showing you this is that not only do you have your screens you've probably got your mobile phone you might have other devices so this information overload is quite concerning but it's not a new concept and if we go back to the 1685 this was quoted people were a fear of books it will make the following centuries fall into a state as barbarious as that of the centuries that followed the fail of the Roman Empire and as a chasun this is a good article between technology and corporate culture that really makes me think about the technology reality what is possible and what's actually done so I'll just take you through these we've got unlimited accessibility of everyone by many communication channels everyone is expected by managers to be available 24x7 sending messages is easy to do and it's free and we sanction the unlimited sending of these messages people still send emails when no need to send emails it's affecting our attention there's no doubt about it there's cued messages my email box after going back off holiday is quite frightening I don't know how I'm going to get through those emails and do a full time job and I'm sure you're the same and yet we're supposed to keep up with those and respond promptly and working from home technology which I get an awful lot done working at home but there's still no clear understanding about the policy of where to place that work life barrier and that's something I think we've had to try and develop ourselves and it can work to your favour if you've got children or dogs you want to take those out for a walk first thing and you want to work later in the evening then that's your prerogative but that being able to turn off technology is something that we're still grappling with a belief and this multitasking that we're expected to do more increasingly not everybody is good at multitasking and neither are our students although they would give us the belief that they are technology can be distracting and that was written by Stroza so each year the Ipsos Global Survey CIGI Ipsos Global Survey is done and they've actually surveyed 25,000 users and I just want to take you through some of the responses from that social media companies were second only to cyber criminals when it comes to fuelling online distrust more than half of those concerned about their online privacy said they're more concerned than they were a year ago I certainly am I'm rethinking about what I'm doing a majority admit to fuelling for fake news I think we're getting a little bit more savvy but not all of us and it's an education it's something we need to keep talking about if it's too good to be true then it probably is be careful of those links that you're clicking on the information that you're giving being given and distrust in the internet is causing people to change the way that they behave online less than half the global citizens express at least some degree of confidence that any of the algorithms are unbiased 32% 68% obviously are the opposite and then there's I guess a bit of a contradiction to what people are saying some are saying that they feel that the lack of transparency is exploitive and yet by contracts a lack of human emotion express confidence cos it wasn't subjective so you know we're at a a point where we can't really agree so we need to remind ourselves that when we're using social media it is based on a model providing a free service in exchange for advertising and it always has been and I think as technology advances and gets more sophisticated and you get more personalised and potentially relevant adverts this could be useful but it's a double edge sword my husband certainly won't be pleased if it's telling me more things that I can shop especially if it's shoes and handbags so hope on the horizon recent headlines we've had compromises of email with Facebook and Google teachers with the hotel chain Marriott and new changes to our data protection introducing GDPR so there's lots of work going into looking at personal data protection and these are reports you can look at later if you want to go into more detail butarelli talked about part of the responsibilities enabling the individual to challenge what you do with the information and I think this is something that's really important something we need to fight for individually and collectively the right to be forgotten was a case in 2014 that actually I guess kick started a little bit to get GDPR in so that he could take his information off the internet and that's something we can now ask for and then there's cookies I think it's really important that we understand what cookies mean how many people get really annoyed when you go on a website and you see this sign up and it says accept and you just click accept and you carry on reading your article hands up if people have done that quite a lot do you ever read the cookie settings? some people will and some people haven't and it's enlightening there are different types of cookies there are the ones that are functional and really important to keep the website flowing but are the ones where we sell the data that people can sell the data, they collect the data and they'll sell them on but remember the cookie settings are an opt-in now you have the choice to accept or reject so when we're concerned about the data and people selling that and using websites or social media you have that choice to opt out of it and cookies come in different flavours so as I mentioned there's the functional ones this is a bit of a traffic light so strictly necessary the green ones the functional ones may be set up by third party providers do we know who they are what does that mean and there's a targeting cookies so they're actually gathering this information and that will follow you around the internet and certainly if you shop online you'll find the things that you're looking at follow you around with little adverts and the privacy policy and these people are really quite clear about what they're doing if you read the small print which obviously a lot of us don't it says on the wired website if you don't agree to the terms contained in this privacy policy you must immediately exit the service so it's a choice and why is privacy policy is conducted by Condonast who have 1 billion consumers and 32 markets through print, digital, video and social platforms so I'm just visiting one website what you're looking at could be shared a long way there are also optional free apps via Facebook a recent one was the one that could make you age who created this and where's that data going they're dangerous I would really suggest that people don't use these things if you don't know where your data's going unless you're happy for that data to go there and ironically when I went in to actually read the article of course I came up for the cookies supporting great journalism because this is where the advert was from so the information commissioners office can tell you about cookies small text files, the good things that you can do that they're used for the relevant things but it's the extra and you need to make that choice whether that website, that social media site is doing that the internet society is asking global leaders to prioritize digital security so there's work going on the online trust audit and honour roll does an annual survey which is quite interesting in America and it looks at top websites say top, it'll look at the most popular, it'll look at banking it's commercial and shopping and all sorts of different health websites and it looks at consumer protection site security and privacy and what's interesting is whilst websites are getting better people are getting more vigilant and caring if that's the right expression one bit in the summary because it's a very big report there's a nice infographic that brings out some of the data over 42% of these sites use web trackers to share information with third parties so even the websites you think you can believe in trust so health websites banking websites in terms of trust might be something to consider Cambridge Analytica I'm sure you've heard about this is where a Facebook app called this is your digital life information for people that were actually using that was shared allegedly people were notified if their details were involved but again if you've got a busy Facebook site do people see that, do they understand what that actually meant so the information commission's office which is also connected to GDPR reminds us that you share data constantly online but there is data protection law that they're developing and I don't think we're absolutely there yet or they're absolutely there but the idea is that it will help us and it provides information about how you can do that safely there are lots of social media fact sheets that could be useful to use with your students with family, with friends they're all available on the ICO website and there's a whole host of guidance on your rights I'm not going to go into those details but it's there to revisit afterwards and the concern is that we want to strengthen the rights of people to take back control of their personal data so this idea of being able to have data arranged if something's on there is there you have a month to request respond to requests and it's making some money in 2019 British Airways were fined they lost 500,000 names and addresses of customers and they were fined 183.4 million the Marriott Hotel they were fined 99.2 million sadly the year before when data was shared through Cambridge Analytica it was pre-GDPR Facebook were fined 500,000 pounds if it was today's time it would have been 1.26 billion pounds because it's 4% up to 4% of the revenue of the organisation and there's GDPR Coalition Ireland that's a useful resource to look at and something called the Five Rights Framework again resources to have a look at afterwards so what are the implications for education the JISC website is very informative and I know universities and those responsible for data that we hold for students will be completely on the case and it needs to be that we document why information is held how it's collected when it will be deleted or anonymised and who may gain access to it and going back to learning analytics this I think is really important that we're transparent with our students that if we are collecting the data and how we're using it is made explicit to them so that they don't have unspoken fears that they're talking about with their peers it's about being transparent before I write my name on the board I'll need to know how you're planning to use that data students are going to begin to question if they've not already started questioning so that's the data so in terms of dialogue as I say I can wax lyrical about how social media can empower individuals to become communicators, creators, curators critics, conversationalists and collaborators and to continue that dialogue face to face and I talked about that back in 2013 when I did a talk on digital scholarship at Reading University but social is a behaviour not a channel and people like social interaction and I think it's important that we don't get too worried although it is a worry about the data and those concerns that we throw the baby out with a bathwater and we don't utilise these social networking tools to have good experiences with our peers I really like this sketch note by Tame Voray and I agree that through the sharing I certainly learn every single day I get my mobile phone out and travelling into work and I learn something new from someone in my network and it's just so so powerful and it can be powerful this is an Odexcel map of FOTI 2011 was anybody there? if anybody remember the future of technology and education there's a few people you can see you see on there this conference was a free conference at ULCC and you had to tweet on Twitter to actually get a ticket but I didn't get there the year before and I can remember tweeting and saying I really would like to go to this conference this year I'm Frank Steiner who was one of the organisers picked it up but then when he picked it up he started to look at my online presence and my profile and because I'd recently done a couple of presentations put those on slideshare which then went on to my LinkedIn profile he then saw some of the things that made me to be one of the keynotes so not only did I get to the conference I actually got to talk there which was quite uncanny and there's an article in the LSE Impact blog which is a great blog to read about scientists who selfie so changing the stereotypes of the jobs that we actually do those visuals that we can share through social media can be really really helpful not just for us but for our students and our family and our children but it's directing people to the right places and connecting with the right people to make sure they're seeing the right things I always say Twitter is only as good as the people that you actually follow and it's this opportunity to develop communities where you share something in common we've done that face to face forever that's no new concept but what the internet can do and social media can do is bring people across the globe and I love this quote from Sherry Spellac it never cease to amaze us that overwhelmingly vast majority of humanity plays by the rules and means well we do have to continue to believe in people that we can share good things otherwise it's time to give up when I was looking at the idea of belongingness Stamford University I've got a belonging project which starts off really well a sense of belonging is deeply important to emotional health and personal wellbeing but it ends when it's talking about the students that they can develop a sense of belonging when they feel connected to other people especially those who share their distinct life experiences interests or goals and that I disagree with and Christina Nancy has got a really nice quote that she's got pinned on her Twitter account that says it is our variability that gives us collective strength you know students want to meet lots and lots of different people we want to meet lots of different people not just the people that share the opinions that we have diversity is having a seat at the table inclusion is having a voice and belonging is having that voice be heard and I quite like this quote space becomes place when it acquires symbolic meaning and a concrete definition marking the whole spectrum of identity and sense of belonging so the spaces to me are the structure the places that we can frequent but it's the places they only become meaningful if people are invited into those and feel welcome because belonging can also be considered as something that's owned you have to be suitable you have to be acceptable the answerment of belonging is being free and independent self-sufficient liberated a lot of us like to go off piece and be be like that and that's not a bad thing but in terms of belonging and social media and communities we need to make sure that people are accepted they're wanted drawn in so whatever the community that you might have look at the quiet people draw those people in just as you would do if you were face to face the ones that are quiet the introverts and of course even through some of the positives there are still issues it's really important that we still continue to have the conversations about the digital footprint that we're leaving when we use any online tools and Edinburgh there's a really nice resource the digital footprint if you've not already seen that do visit it that you can use with your own students and along the way we're having to learn constantly new literacies so graphic literacies you know how do we read them for graphics what does it mean to have a personal learning network multitasking is it the right thing to do and we need to build ethical literacy and trust and know that we can be trusted and the things that we actually share and there are things that can be missed easily online, emotions and some of the ways that people are overcoming this now they're using emoticons emojis gifs, gifs are really popular on Twitter but what they can actually do is show some of the emotions that we've got whereas text is flat and doesn't necessarily show those things and there's something about what is said not said as well as how it's actually said I picked up on some tweets a couple of weeks ago it was when the BTEC and A level results were coming out one day apart and there's lots always talked about the A level results but what about the BTEC we must remember and this tweet was saying you know there's lots of fuss about A levels but not BTEC and it was a BBC that said you know we questioned some of the students when they were interviewing them did you not get along with A levels not understanding that these vocational qualifications are equally as important I left school and went to college because I didn't like the A levels that were on offer I actually wanted to be a domestic science teacher I loved cooking so I went to college for two years and I had a magnificent experience it did actually give me the qualifications to get into university although that's another long story but I didn't go to university but I didn't start university until 2004 if you want to know more you can ask me at coffee and then people were responding to that so when there's information missing it's absolutely fine to jump in and say you know what about this point of view and Laura Burden came in and told her story the STEM S celebrated both which is great it's an organisation that brings girls in STEM together if you've not heard of that and of course there is toxic Twitter and there's lots that I could say about this and we could spend another three hours, four hours days, weeks, months talking about the things going on and we need to be aware of that there's disinformation misinformation and fake news we need to help our students understand what the difference of those things are there's constant information saying about we're online roughly three in ten US adults apparently through pure research are online all the time when I looked at the methodology they'd only actually consulted 1,502 people but there we go the economist in 2019 was talking about the social media addiction getting getting worse and in retaliation to this Josh Hawley has come up with the social media addiction reduction technology act the smart act it's real I looked at the details there's a PDF you can have a look at it later to prohibit social media companies from using practices that exploit human psychology or brain psychology and that all starts well that sounds interesting I think it needs to be looked at but what it's actually proposing is that it will stop the infinite scroll the elimination of natural stopping auto play images or rewards linked to social media so in short that would be the auto play from youtube infinite scrolling on twitter and facebook feeds outlaw gamification in snapchat and it would bring up conspicuous pop-ups to make sure that actually happened and you're aware however sadly within the same document it said that this does not include email but there is concerned about the infinite scroll and the red alerts and there's something about the use of red being important and when you look at your mobile phone you'll see the little circle of how many emails you've yet to read how many notifications on your social media channels you've got to read and to some degree it can make you anxious and it makes others more anxious it is a worry and there are implications of the light buttons and what that means there's a good TED talk that Jack Dorsey from twitter has given and they're even thinking about or he's talked about removing the light buttons because it makes people so in sense David Hopkins on his blog wrote about what does it mean to like something if somebody's wrote a post there's actually an unhappy post and what does that actually convey is the like and equivalent type buttons appropriate still and there's research going on about managing young people, specialists, wellbeing and mental health all these resources are in the the footnotes education for connected world there's the UK council for internet safety things going on there the government has got an online harms paper there's information in there to consider and we need to think about what not to share and there's guidance again from the government and a share checklist think about the source, the headline analyse it has it been retouched and changed and is it false other errors it's quite useful to use with your own students because there's no good just banning social media and technology that's never going to happen they're only going to do it when they're outside the room we need to have these conversations so a lot to think about there and I hope that wasn't too rushed but as I was gathering the information I wanted to make sure that I captured those that you can revisit them yourselves and read in depth if you want to later but it would be remissing me but I didn't talk about the doing and how it can be done social media can be used usefully and powerfully so this is a a work in progress I'm trying to put together an infographic that can fit on one page of how it could be used so student recruitment, promoting research promoting events achievements of staff and students I think is really important social media can be used really effectively for crisis communications Twitter is the first thing we go to when our VLE goes down it tells us all this is what's happening business partnerships, graduation keeping in touch with our alumni is really helpful and then there's the people and the team so in terms of our students and staff we can use it to build communities we can have interactive activities inside and outside of the classroom and so on but we also need to think about the things in the outside circle the wellbeing, the spaces, protocols responsibility and evaluating what we actually do it's important that we think about the impact of what we're doing what students are doing for good and for otherwise because we need to look at that and if things do go wrong how can we put them right how can we help our students put things right and now I'm going to share some of the things that I've so many things I could share but I've just picked out some useful things about how people can gain information from the community so this is a snapshot I hope you don't mind Lorna of starting her Seymol and she actually went out through Twitter to get some advice and got seven pages of tweets so she's storified it which was a really really a good idea and then made it into pdf because she may know that the storify has gone but there is a way clip as a recovery which we use now David Hopkins blogging, writing getting people to write with him I think is really important about all these thorny issues around technology Santana I don't think he's here today for the last couple of years he's come up with this idea of the HE blog swap so actually having a buddy and swapping doing a blog post as a guest on each other's blogs is a really lovely idea and through the conversations of actually doing that you're extending your network and I think that could be really helpful there's people like Helen Webster that have created many courses the 10 days of Twitter which other people can use it's got creator commons licences there's crazy friends like Suzanne who use snapchats but very effectively but what's really interesting is when she blogs about it she talks about what the students have said and she shares that with people I'm still sitting on the fence on snapchat but it works with her students and if it works with your students then that's what's important never be afraid to ask your students I'm going to try this new thing let's see how it goes if it doesn't work, we'll scrap it we can use something else that's fine that just shows you how many snapchat users they are so it is a popular space for younger people these days and then there's tools like WeChat which is used in China and has been used by a tutor to give feedback so a similar thing to the snapchat having those interactions and the students really liked it and then there's other opportunities bring your own devices for learning online course the latest team was Sheila, Alex, Neil and Deb and Suzanne asked Suzanne why she was juggling later but what was interesting was this that we started off with the 5Cs connecting, communicating, curating, collaborating and they took that forward and there's LTA chats lots of people to look at there and Chris Rowles' book which a lot of people from ALT have contributed to this book lots of other useful resources in there and I'm afraid I've run out of time I've got to look at my watch again but just quickly want to mention the SMASH team which is my students who well they re-branted what I was calling a social media special interest group to social media for academic studies at Hallam, the SMASH and they've created card activities and to start with they started with the tools but then they came up with the latest set of cards themselves as reverse social media where they looked at what do we actually want to achieve and the tools that can actually do that and I felt very proud of the students because this is kind of self-led with me giving them some information but introducing and bringing your students in as partners to look at some of the thorny issues I think is very very important and to work on this together so I'd highly recommend doing that just quickly be past this there's Lorna's word of caution I'd say give it a go because collectively everybody in this room the networks that you've got the knowledge that you've got the things that you say are online presence can be really really powerful we can all help each other learn and by being open and sharing that you can make a really big impact and if you think you're too small to have an impact try going to bed with Ms Skeeter and I'll end it there thank you very much Sue and what a romp through a lot of information there the slides will of course all be available for you but just before we head to coffee I think if there are questions from anyone in the audience if you could we'll try to spot you we've got some roving mics who will run if you could say where you're from introduce yourself to the room before asking your question and remember to make sure that it's that you're heard that you're holding the microphone before you speak maybe reflecting on how questions for Sue or giving examples about how social media is used in your institution or how you're using it to create social networks among students so do we have any questions from the audience that we can see just give us a wave it's a little bit hard to see from the let's see if we can go over here to Lady in the Peach it's Francis I'm Francis Bell I'm not from an institution I escaped a few years ago so I'd call myself an itinerant scholar now but I want to also thank Sue I don't know how you achieve that broad sweep in your talk and I really enjoyed it but there's one thing I wanted to ask you about which is to do with the doing and as you were talking I was wondering what faculty in different disciplines you know what people in the psychology discipline in the information systems discipline that you and I are associated with computer science in business schools which was my last place I worked what could they be doing with their students to help them think about how they could do things differently in the future well I think in terms of if we look at psychology is actually doing some research getting the students doing that research and sharing and I think it would be really powerful if our students across a broad spectrum of disciplines could hear from students actually doing that rather than just being a theory in the book a theory that's in the journal articles you know bringing it to life in terms of computer science I've spoken about this many times when I've done training sessions for colleagues in computing you know where they've got perhaps a little bit vex around the chosen VLE that we have I'll not mention which one it is and it's like well why don't you actually reinvent something yourselves you know the technology the knowledge, the coding you know is not beyond the realms of getting staff and students to work together because if we were to reinvent spaces where we can connect you know the ideal online social space what would that actually look like and the only way we could find out is to you know put that out to students to experiment because there is an element of you don't know what you don't know and if you've not experienced it how do you know that this is going to be effective or not effective you know so there would need to be lots of different trials but I think you know collectively in computer science we've got the potential you know why is it always America that comes up with a solution and James Clay asked me to speak at an event a few months ago and I talked about this idea of the ideal device that would give students where it would pull everything in and I talked about that actually with some post-graduate students taking a couple of courses data science and MSc computing and one of the students actually contacted me afterwards he says you know that's really got me thinking and he's looking when he finishes his masters to do a PhD and he says I'd really like to take that forward you know so I think there's a potential to do that, there's lots to explore. Thank you we have another question here Thank you Alan Williamson University of Derby online, it was a very thought-provoking presentation not only the privacy in social media but what about VLEs just recently in the last few weeks I've noticed I've had to agree to various term conditions which I confess I haven't read but it's not just social media and retail that privacy has potentially affected absolutely any comment particularly about that that would be interesting well it's the next online course that we're going to be having to do mandatory one and you'll get the emails one after another until you've actually completed it but in all seriousness you know we need to have these conversations and it needs to be brought down to a level that you know it's not going to be boring and stuffy and oh I can't use my time to read all of this stuff because you know if you do look at some teas and seeds they're gone forever we need to cut to the chase what does it actually mean but what do we need personally need to be really concerned about and know about and it's making that information digestible understandable and absolutely transparently clear Thank you can I have so in the room can you raise your hand if you are involved in your institution in discussions about student data and privacy okay so this is a something that is a lot of us are involved in as part of our work and are you and so that question was about involved in the institution how many of you are involved in discussions with vendors and suppliers about data and privacy okay so if you if you can raise your hands right up because I think that that's an area that we can share knowledge amongst the community because if we're all separately in discussions with vendors about what they're doing with our student data it might make sense to just check the kinds of answers that we're getting from the various different suppliers okay are there any other questions from the floor I know that we're keeping you from coffee and it's gotten a little bit chilly in here so we only need to run then to coffee and snacks okay I'm going to let you go for your coffee we're going to have a break for coffee time and then we start the dozens and dozens of parallel sessions thank you very much we can give Sue another time we can change our world for the better teachers and students can develop and share coding skills with notable our Jupiter Notebook service our DigiMap services deliver high quality mapping data for all stages of education future developments include a text and data mining service working with satellite data and machine learning and smart campus technology Edina's work with learning technologies helps to develop skilled data literate students who can change our world for the better teachers and students can develop and share coding skills with notable our Jupiter Notebook service our DigiMap services deliver high quality mapping data for all stages of education future developments include a text and data mining service working with satellite data and machine learning and smart campus technology Edina's work with learning technologies helps to develop skilled data literate students who can change our world for the better teachers and students can develop and share coding skills with notable our Jupiter Notebook service our DigiMap services deliver high quality mapping data for all stages of education future developments include a text and data mining service working with satellite data and machine learning and smart campus technology Edina's work with learning technologies helps to develop skilled data literate students who can change our world for the better teachers and students can develop and share coding skills with notable our Jupiter Notebook service our DigiMap services deliver high quality mapping data for all stages of education future developments include a text and data mining service working with satellite data and machine learning and smart campus technology Edina's work with learning technologies helps to develop skilled data literate students who can change our world for the better teachers and students can develop and share coding skills with notable our Jupiter Notebook service our DigiMap services deliver high quality mapping data for all stages of education future developments include a text and data mining service working with satellite data and machine learning and smart campus technology