Here I offer some digital possibilities
for students to integrate theory with practice in their field settings. Each one should be discussed with the field
supervisor or in the field class. If you have practice with any of them please
let me know your experience.
CSWE Field Competency
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Learning
Opportunities/Tasks
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Identify as a professional social
worker and conduct oneself accordingly.
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Create
a LinkedIn account
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Join
social work groups on LinkedIn relating to your social work population and
the profession
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Keep
an online journal of your experiences each week and share with supervisor,
examples are Penzu or Day One
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Create
a blog between you and your supervisor to track resources for your client
population, ask questions, or share tools, be sure to make the blog private
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Curate
topics on Scoop.It or Triberr about social work interests
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Google
podcasts, pictures, and videos of various social work events/training to
understand professional standards for communication, dress and behavior
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Join
social work blogs and magazines online, use Bundlepost to keep up with them
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Identify
national, regional, and local conferences within your education needs
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Apply social work ethical principles
to guide professional practice.
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· Join social work groups on LinkedIn
relating to social work ethics
· Read the online ethical standard
NASW creates in your practice area and the technology standards
· Research topics in the Journal of
Social Work Values and Ethics
· Use a search engine to explore
ethical dilemmas in social work practices and journal about how you would have
responded to share with your supervisor
· Research an ethical decision making process
online and relate it to the agency or population served
· Evaluate your technology practices for ethical applications and guidelines in social media and communication usage. |
Apply
critical thinking to inform and communicate professional judgments.
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Review
Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy to integrate technology into problem solving
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Search
for similar programs online to compare their research based strategies to
your placement
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Using
Google Images, identify visual models for assessment, prevention,
intervention, and evaluation of your field population
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Search Ted for inspirational videos about
agency or client interests
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Place
communication with clients, community or other agencies on GoogleDocs for review
by other social workers
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Video
tape yourself addressing differences in practice, problem solving conflicts
or working with difficult clients (give friends a script as to how you want
them to behave)
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Engage
diversity and difference in practice.
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· Interpret client data collected by
agency against community data for any discrimination
· Identify three issues with diversity
and culture you have had with client populations, then develop a survey on
Surveymonkey.com explaining each issue
and
asking for other professionals, within the organization, viewpoint
· Develop a list of links relevant to understanding
cultures served by your organization
· Videotape different cultural
segments at a protest to understand their point of view on the matter
· Identify microaggressions online and discuss how they may impact your client population. |
Advance
human rights and social and economic justice.
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Start
a campaign on Causes.com or another charity site
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Cultivate
an advocacy blog
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Join
advocacy lists for your causes online
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Find
your local and federal representatives online and write a letter in support
or against legislation affecting a population of interest
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Make
a viral video on a social or economic justice issue to post on YouTube
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Create
a Facebook page or Pinterest for your issue
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Keep
a political log of issues affecting your population online, share it on
social media
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Engage
in research-informed practice and practice-informed research.
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· Research charities on charitynavigator.org
to see where your organization fits
· Find which EIPs your organization
uses and how they research their programs, then use your school database to
research alternative approaches to affect change
· Discover outcomes at your agency and
compare with other agencies
· Pinpoint and review grant
applications online for EIP needs
· View information on research through
Storify or create your own Storify
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Apply
knowledge of human behavior and the social environment.
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Identify and assess
websites which will empower your client population
· Generate
a list of android and apple applications for use with your population
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Create
a systems view of how the digital divide affects your population
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Design
an online class for clients or staff at Rcampus or MyiCourse, offer the
course at your agency or within the community
· Model
a technology ecomap of a client system
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Develop
a method to empower clients usage of technology to advance their problem
solving and opportunity
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Engage
in policy practice to advance social and economic well-being and to deliver
effective social work services.
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· Identify appropriate grants and
foundations online for use by your agency
· Find the advocacy group for your
population and research policies the group works toward changing
· Host a twitter debate about policy
relevant to your setting, market to appropriate stakeholders
· Recognize and create an agency
policy on GoogleDocs and open it for feedback
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Respond
to contexts that shape practice.
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Analyze
and compare rural and urban digital solutions to the social issue addressed, evaluate problems
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Videotape
interviews with community stakeholders for upload to agency website
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Evaluate
digital tools and technology systems at your agency, present to supervisor,
director, or board
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Curate
relevant technology changes applicable to your agency with Curata
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Engage,
assess, intervene, and evaluate with individuals, families, groups,
organizations, and communities
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· Use a GoPro, with informed consent,
to tape a segment of the day you are most engaged with your client population
· Complete technology assessments with
clients
· Identify and intervene with
appropriate technology in your client setting
· Develop a plan for efficiently using
the agency’s electronic records system
· Assess social media usage at your
agency and create a social engagement strategy for your placement
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Revised 11/27/13
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