#SWDE2019 Keynote – What role will Social Workers choose in shaping the digital future?
On April 10th, Melanie Sage, Nancy Smyth, and I delivered a keynote speech at the 2019 Social Work Distance Education Conference in San Antonio, TX. We asked social work educators to imagine a world where social workers were innovators with technology. Our goal was to have a conversation and share how we had been talking about technology will writing our book – Teaching Social Work with Digital Technology.
We started our conversation about how social workers could help close the digital justice gap on Twitter, moving from virtual spaces to physical spaces. Many social workers joined in this conversation along the way. We talked about a range of issues from boundary and privacy challenges to accessibility and connection with technology. As Nancy said, “we were near-sighted as a profession. We need to look through the lens of possibilities, not the lens of our fears.”
In this blog post, we are sharing highlights, references, and slides from the keynote. We hope you will help us continue the conversation together and in your places of work and community.
#SWDE2019 – A Toolkit for Social and Digital Media Policies in Field Education
It is the second day of the 2019 Social Work Distance Education Conference and at 10 AM, I’ll be in the Peraux Room of the St. Anthony Hotel to share our poster about the Social Media Toolkit for Field Educators. This is a project I have been working on with Allison Curington (University of Alabama), Mary Jacque Carroll (University of Alabama at Birmingham),and Robin Snider (Jacksonville State University). The poster will provide both information and tools that field directors can use to guide curricular development of learning approaches and assessment strategies to achieve practice outcomes. Participants will learn how to access the Social Media Toolkit for Field Educators, a free resource with educator’s guide and a PowerPoint slide deck.
If you can’t make it to the poster, I am included all the important details in this blog post.
#SWDE2019 – Incorporating Technology into Social Justice Assignments for Social Work Education
Today is Day One of the fifth annual Social Work Distance Education Conference at the St. Anthony Hotel in San Antonio, TX. The wonderful faculty and staff at Our Lady of the Lake University Worden School of Social Service are once again hosting this wonderful conference. This year’s theme focuses on how pedagogy in social work education can advance social justice. With our new book out, Teaching Social Work with Digital Technology, Melanie Sage, Nancy Smyth, and I decided to share some insights from Chapter 4 about how Puentedura’s SAMR Model for Technology Integration can be used to incorporate technology into traditional social justice assignments in social work education. We are presenting at 3:00 PM CST in the Jones Room.
For those of you who can’t make the presentation, we are including the details in this blog post.
#SWTech: The Beginnings of an Online Community
In just a few days, Google will eliminate its online community platform, Google+, and with it will go the first iteration of our #SWTech Online Community. This has me thinking about the whys and whats of how our #SWTech community started and developed, and how it will soon evolve. This blog post is my first attempt to chronicle the people and platforms that shaped our community. My methods were simple. I sent emails to some members requesting information, and talked over the phone and video calls with others. I readily acknowledge the bias and poor memory that I bring to this brief and simple historical record. In fact, this was a common theme I heard from others. I think Neil Ballantyne, Senior Lecturer at Open Polytechnic of New Zealand and board member of husITa, said it best when I asked him how he discovered the #SWTech group:
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