2. Overview
•Digital Britain’ and all that surrounds it
•Learning in a Digital Britain
•Learning for a Digital Britain
•Challenges and opportunities for those who
support adult learning
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Chapter 2: Being Digital
Chapter 3a: A Competitive Digital Communications
Infrastructure
Chapter 3b: Radio: Going Digital
Chapter 4: Creative Industries in the Digital World
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Chapter 2: Being Digital
Chapter 3a: A Competitive Digital Communications
Infrastructure
Chapter 3b: Radio: Going Digital
Chapter 4: Creative Industries in the Digital World
Chapter 5: Public Service Content in Digital Britain
Chapter 6: Research, Education and Skills for Digital
Britain
Chapter 7: Digital Security and Safety
Chapter 8: The Journey to Digital Government
Chapter 9: Delivering Digital Britain 225
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Digital Britain: Attitudes towards
internet content among adults
Digital Britain Summit Children’s Panel
output
Intellectual Property Office - Copyright
in a digital world: What role for a Digital
Rights Agency?
Fostering creative ambition in the UK
Digital Economy
Unconference Reports
Twitter Feed
Review of ICT User Skills
Report of the Digital Britain Media
Literacy Working Group
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8. Learning in a Digital Britain
Learning for a Digital Britain
9. Britain is not Digital because of
government policy
The policy is seeking to influence what
would happen anyway.
10. How we can we make a difference for
our learners:
A collective voice at national level.
Local strategic decisions which take
account of Digital Britain.
12. Learning in a Digital Britain
Digital technologies are fundamentally
changing the behaviours that we associate
with teaching and learning, systemically
affecting the infrastructures that support
both formal and informal lifelong learning.
16. The response from the educational
community
Can education provider commit to produce
Open Educational resources?
17.
18. Are Adult Community Learning
providers harnessing technology?
A majority reported access to a learning platform
although many made the distinction between access
and use!
36% of trained e-Guides surveyed use e-learning
materials at least once a week.
Non e-Guides used e-learning less.
19. How well is technology harnessed for
offender learning?
Prison issues such as security, escorts to class,
churn, overcrowding etc were barriers for OLASS
staff
HoLS reported access to a wide range of technologies
for their own, staff and learner use
Majority of HoLS reported lack of access to
intranet for learners as an ongoing issue
29. And finally.....
Learning in Digital
Britain
• Access to content
• Citizen’s Voice
• Are providers e
mature?
Learning for a digital
Britain
• 17 Million UK
Digitally Excluded
• A large part of the
workforce of 2020
are already at work!
Chap 2 Consortium of stakeholders to drive up digital participation. Ask Channel 4 to buy in. Chap 3 Competitive Digi Coms Structure Universal Service Commitment 2Mbps for all by 2012 Superfast broadband – 10 times faster Next Generation Fund – 50p per month on phone lines. Chap3 b National FM stations to go to DAB. Free up spectrum for ultra local radio Community Radio consultation Chap 4 Creative Industries in Digital World Reduce copyright infringement as a way of fostering creativity Consultation . IPO to consult on copyright exceptions including distance learning
Chap 5 Public Service content ‘ Contained contestable element’ Who has the licence fee? Local local para 62 / 63 Local web sites Chap 6 Research Education and Skills for D B Digital Life Skills Rose review Primary Curriculum – strong of school age training. Chap 7’Security and safety Change structure of Nominet Data security covered Safe online commerce – Get Safe Online. Information Commissioner consultation on Personal Information online Online content Understanding this is all the right and proper subject matter for adult learning programmes. Chap 8 Govt Bring together delivery agencies bonfire of the quangos
Learning Through Life , the definitive report into the future for lifelong learning in the UK will be published on 17 September 2009. Essential reading for everyone with a personal or professional interest in the social and economic trends shaping tomorrow’s world, it provides a comprehensive vision for the future of lifelong learning.
The Universal Service Commitment offers Broadband at 2 Mbps to everyone in UK by 2012. Superfast Broadband to follow on – will this produce a second rural urban divide?
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Currently Publicly funded and available to all to use. Using the internet safely Using public services online Using email Using the web Using online searches Using a mobile phone Using a computer Using digital TV Using digital photography First steps skills checkpoint Next steps skills checkpoint