Work-Life Balance Research Lab
We are preparing a Work Literacy program together with the Work-Life Balance Research Lab (http://wlb-lab.org). We expect to give a lecture in Busan in December. It will focus on work-centered digital literacy. The session is meant as a short introductory lecture for people who are just starting to learn how to work, including students and early-career workers with one or two years of experience.
I am thinking about weaving the slower, more careful approach to digital literacy that I have kept discussing with nonprofit organizations and different projects into the broader Work Literacy lecture.
The reason I accepted this proposal is that I wanted to carve out time this year to write again. I wanted to make a digital literacy textbook that my nieces and nephews, roughly between ten and sixteen, could read. The preparation period is short, but I want to use the Work Literacy lecture as part of the process.
Work Literacy
We live in a world where it takes a very long time to align on even the basic standards for how people work. It also takes an enormous amount of time to train organizations, projects, and individuals who are not comfortable with digital devices. Even basic work practices and communication often become confusing.
- Digital communication / understanding assets such as source files and data / culture and digital literacy
- Google Forms, Naver Forms, Jotform: simple input handling, collecting data, and exporting it again; in other words, understanding how a platform works when users submit information and operators use that information to provide services
- Removing the word “digital” from every tool, device, and label, and thinking instead about active use inside organizations and teams, especially for people who are not yet familiar with the tools
- Digital naming, domains, preparing information access for machines, and accessibility for children and people with disabilities
Digital Literacy
- Games, play, digital devices, and change (Share your game)
- Book to Mobile: “Publishing a book in three hours”
- Social Media Group: “Sharing every situation” -> Broadcast Everytime 2020
- Social media in the nonprofit sector
- Device Festival: “Will we still use smartphones ten years from now?”
- Make a Good World: “What if universities disappeared?” - MOOC, YouTube
- One-page proposals / service-making project / three-week actions -> the easy-platform era