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Hybrid working: skills for digital transformation
Hybrid working: skills for digital transformation

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4.2 How digitally curious are you?

The following activities give you an opportunity to be curious with a range of tools, and to think about how you approach digital tasks. There are no detailed instructions, which is deliberate.

Activity 11 Explore Freerice

Timing: 10 minutes

The only instruction for this activity is visit the Freerice site and explore it. NB You do not need to create an account unless you wish to do so.

Freerice [Tip: hold Ctrl and click a link to open it in a new tab. (Hide tip)]

Activity 12 Draw a person

Timing: 15 minutes

Create a new document in a word processing program (e.g., Microsoft Word, Google Docs, Apple Pages), draw a person, and save the document.

Activity 13 How did you feel?

Timing: 10 minutes

How did you feel?

  1. I wasn’t sure how to do this, and didn’t do it
  2. I wasn’t sure how to do this, so I searched/asked for help
  3. I wasn’t sure what I needed to do, but just played till I worked it out
  4. Fine, I worked out what I need to do
  5. Fine, I knew what I needed to do

Capture your thoughts on doing these activities and make notes in the box below.

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Discussion

You may have been very wary of attempting these activities with minimal instructions, and even uncomfortable. Or you may have been very willing to explore. What support did you require? Did you look for guidance? Each of us has different levels of curiosity and confidence when faced with digital tasks – read more about our responses, in the next section.