1. Digital wellbeing workshop
Alicja Shah and Sarah Knight, Jisc
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2. Digital wellbeing workshop
Aims
Defining digital wellbeing
Reflecting on support your organisation is providing to students and staff
Reflecting on what Jisc can do to support this agenda
#digitalwellbeing

3. Establishing a common vocabulary
Building digital capability framework
The Jisc digital capability framework with its six elements has been influential across the sector in informing how we describe and understand what digital capabilities are and is now underpins all our developments in the Building digital capability service.
It starts from the perspective that digital capabilities are those that enable an individual to live, learn and work in a digital society.
Digital wellbeing – considering the impact digital technologies which are present everywhere have on our wellbeing,
It provides one way of thinking about staff and student digital capabilities. It provides a single, generic description that everyone can relate to.
It encompasses high level capabilities – around digital identity and wellbeing which focuses on developing your personal and professional identities;
4 core digital practices in the centre around communication and collaboration; teaching and learning; digital creation and problem solving; and information and data & media literacies.
And the functional ICT skills which fall out of those higher level discussions above.
But we know that people don’t set out to become ‘digitally capable’ in a general way. They set out to learn a particular subject, to research a particular topic, to achieve particular tasks, to work towards particular goals in their career. So the framework has to be adapted to make sense in very different settings.

4. Digital wellbeing project
Understand
Define
SKETCH
DECIDE
PROTOTYPE
VALIDATE
Phase 2
Phase 1
Phase 3
Phase 4
Phase 5
Phase 6
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5. Defining digital wellbeing
Write down 5 words that into your mind when you think ‘digital wellbeing’ and what it is.
*Share in your pairs/groups

6. The capacity to look after personal health, safety, relationships and work-life balance in digital settings.
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7. What does digital wellbeing looks like?
The capacity to look after personal health, safety, relationships and work-life balance in digital settings;
to use digital tools in pursuit of personal goals (e.g. health and fitness) and to participate in social and community activities;
to act safely and responsibly in digital environments; to negotiate and resolve conflict;
to manage digital workload, overload and distraction;
to act with concern for the human and natural environment when using digital tools.
An understanding of the benefits and risks of digital participation in relation to health and wellbeing outcomes.”
#digitalwellbeing
this definition is very much about the individual and it might appear to imply that the responsibility lies with the individual. This ties in with the dig cap framework and the focus on the individual digital capabilities. We want to now broaden the definition to look at individual but also from a broader societal and institutional perspective

8. Physical health
Mental health
Emotional wellbeing

9. Digital wellbeing Digital social wellbeing Digital work wellbeing
Digital personal wellbeing
Digital learning wellbeing
#digitalwellbeing
Positive and negative aspects activity with cards

10. Draft definition
Feedback?

11. In groups consider what main challenges there are for:
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In groups consider what main challenges there are for:
institutions
staff
in the area of digital wellbeing?
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12. Activity
In groups consider how Jisc could best support institutions/staff to help with the challenges they face?
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13. Join our mailing list
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14. Get in touch… Sarah Knight Sarah.knight@jisc.ac.uk
Alicja Shah
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