5 Reflection
This week has given you an opportunity to improve your understanding of the digital environment and the skills you need to be effective within this environment. You have assessed your confidence on the five main digital skills areas. You now also have a reflective journal that you can use to develop your skills in the future so that they are useful at home, at work and for your studies.
Activity 8 Reflection
Identify three resources from your reflective journal to try out over the next month. This will help you to progress on your digital journey by reminding you what you’ve discovered on this course and what is available to explore in the future.
Here are Kyaw Win’s reflections on the skills needed to succeed in a digital environment.
“Although I can fix bikes so I know some stuff about technology, when it comes to information technology I don’t feel very confident. I think, if you want to be digital, you have to know how to use computers, tablets, and phones. And you have to know how to make them work for you. I have a smart Phone and I find that really useful but I only use a few apps on it. I know it can do much more for me if I let it.
Perhaps it’s also about being able to find things quickly on the internet and using all those apps. And you need to know how to write intelligently. So, knowing how to write blogs and being able to comment on what other people write is important, and getting on those sharing sites.
Lots of my friends use Twitter, but I don’t feel very confident about it yet.
I want to get a job in marketing and I know it’s all changed because of the internet. So, to succeed in a digital environment, I think it’s all about developing confidence and just getting online.”
4 Digital skills and university study