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Social Work Tech Talk: Protecting Against Cyber Threats—A 9-Step Guide for Social Workers
Protecting client data is a critical responsibility for all social workers. Follow these nine important steps to ensure safety of your clients’ private information.
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Social Work Tech Talk: Facing Up to Facial Recognition
The future is here. Facial recognition is used in everyday tasks like unlocking your phone and in more weighty situations, such as providing suspect matches in law enforcement. When it gets it wrong, the cost can be high.
Biopsychosocial-Tech Assessment: Navigating With Humility
Social workers are on the front lines of digital spaces as we observe and process with people about their digital experiences. You do not have to be a tech expert, but you must remain curious and ask deep questions about what clients do online.
Mapping the Tech Landscape for Social Workers: Part 2
Lace up your hiking boots, and let’s go on a journey into exciting and complex technology terms and examples of extended reality (XR), mixed reality (MR), virtual reality (VR), and augmented reality (AR), as they apply to social work.
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Tech Advice for Incoming Online MSW Students: What You’ll Need, What You Can Skip
If you’re just starting your online MSW program, congratulations! As you start to plan where you’ll log into your classes and get your tech set up, we’d like to offer you some budget tips to save money and prioritize your spending.
Social Work Tech Talk: I, Chatbot—What Does AI Have To Do With Social Work?
Suddenly, everyone is talking about AI. So, let’s talk a little bit about what makes it relevant to the work that we do as social workers
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Social Work Tech Talk: Free Speech, Organizing, Education, and TikTok
My feeling is that TikTok can and is being used in the service of free speech; organizing for social change; and providing valuable education to people who might not otherwise have access. That may be why it has been targeted for shutdown.
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Swipe Right for Access: A SmartPhone Guide for Social Workers
Increasing access to necessary resources for clients can be as easy as the swipe of a finger. Awareness of accessibility tools available on smartphones can help social workers provide access to apps, resources, and providers for clients.
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Feel Lost in the Changing Landscape of Technology Skills for Social Workers? Let’s Map Them Out Together!
TikTok. Hashtags. Biometrics. Digital literacy, digital responsibility, digital ethics. Feeling lost in the ever-changing tech landscape and how it relates to your social work practice? Join us on a quick ride through the landscape of #SWTech.
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Social Work Tech Talk: Once Upon a Time, in a Lockdown…(and Beyond)
What helped our tech columnist get through pandemic lockdown? Technology, of course, including reading and listening apps, cooking tech, Alexa, and others. And now that lockdown is over, the same tech continues to add value to everyday life.
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Social Work Tech Talk: The Art of Telehealth
COVID lockdown forced many social workers to integrate telehealth into their practice, but not much has been written about the mechanics. Here are tips to help you with familiar and unfamiliar platforms, plus the nuts and bolts of needed hardware.
Social Work Tech Talk: Tech and the Real World
Technology has changed many things for the better. However, as with most things, the presence of technology presents a side that is less than benign. Used in the wrong ways, it can—and does—cause harm to our communities.
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Social Workers as Emergent Leaders in Research, Technology, and Practice
We live in interesting times. The time is right for social workers in research, technology, and leadership roles. And the time is always right for social work.
Social Work Tech Talk: Meditation Apps for Instruction and Self-Care
Recent events have given us lots of opportunities to practice meditation. For people new to meditation and practicing under these conditions, it might seem daunting. There are a lot of quality meditation apps to help you find your way.
Social Work Tech Notes - Beyond Pushing Buttons: Social Workers and the Need To Anticipate the Future of Tech
Stephen Cummings writes on technology, revisions to the NASW Code of Ethics, and the future.
Social Consciousness in the Digital Age: Using Social Media To Create A Better World
Social media is our virtual state, and our respective network is our ZIP Code. We have the access to initiate positive change and create a better collective experience within our digital neighborhood.
Graduating—Now What? Accessible Technology To Keep the Momentum Going
Free and inexpensive apps provide ways for new social work grads to stay connected and on track.
The Power of Podcasting in Social Work Education
Podcasts promote storytelling and lived experiences, are accessible, and integrate easily into learning management systems. They can be used in class discussions, writing assignments, and assessments.
Update From the Home and Work Environment: Are We Built for This?
What does it mean when work, home, parenting, care-giving, and self-care all happen in the same place? What happens to our sense of self? New challenges are apparent, and the future is unknown.
Podcasts by Social Workers for Social Workers
September 30 is International Podcast Day. Several podcasts by social workers and for social workers are featured in this excerpt from Days in the Lives of Social Workers.
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