21c school librarian - what does it take?
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21C School Librarian - What does it take?Judy O’Connell
Information Literacy / School Libraries Section Satellite Cape Town, South Africa14th August 2015
When you stand at the door of your library and look inside, what is your school library dream?
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What does your library look like, sound like, and feel like - to you and to your students and teachers?
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School libraries are vital, showcasing and empowering the best in good reading and
research for immersion in knowledge.cc licensed ( BY NC SD ) flickr photo by J. Star: http://flickr.com/photos/jstar/345712329/
What has changed?
Viewing and linking
Single view online web pages for information and
marketing
Choice & experiencesPortable, socially powered, focused
on life-stream, content, and powered by
widgets, drag and drop, and mashups of user engagement.
Immersive & pervasiveConnections and
experiences augmented and
transformed through immersive
technology and smart data.
http://www.miragebookmark.ch/most-interesting-libraries.htm
Library
National libraries in every country
http://www.miragebookmark.ch/most-interesting-libraries.htm
Library 2.0
The Dead Sea Scrolls online from Israel Museum’s Shrine of the Book
The King James Bible required seven years to translate and many months for scribes to copy.
Now we can have it ‘whispernetted’ into electronic paper in moments.
Once again, it was a book that inspired many radical changes in our global society.
changing their reading
and
information encounters
The iPad and other mobile devices have probably changed learning forever.
http://www.bigstockphoto.com/image-16933145/stock-photo-technology
School libraries and
teacher librarians can
be immersed
in today’s interactive
knowledge
environments.
Responsible for helping students and teachers connect to the ‘outside world’ with comprehensive projects, activities and technology media.
Engaging students with all the dimensions of learning that we can think of!
Multi-literate environments Variety of ‘services’ Curriculum understanding Collaborative work spaces Media flexibility
“In meeting readers where they are the role of the school librarian is to promote books and reading, in old ways and new ways”.
Change has arrived at an iSchool library near you. Judy O’Connell
Change has arrived at an iSchool library near you. Judy O’Connell
“For students information literacy action happens wherever they read and interpret the world around them, not just in the library or the classroom”.
BODY in the LIBRARY
Dear Sophie
“Learning today requires teachers to understand reading and information seeking in a connected world.”
Change has arrived at an iSchool library near you. Judy O’Connell
Knowledge 2.0
“Provide the divergence and convergence in media needed to foster motivation, differentiation, collaboration and connections necessary for 21st century learning.”
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Change has arrived at an iSchool library near you. Judy O’Connell
Knowledge 2.0
“...because students need a range of reading and information options delivered via all manner of digital devices.”
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Knowledge 2.0
“ because they need to know how to juxtapose text, sound, media and social connections in real time ”
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Knowledge 2.0
“Part of rethinking how schools work is redefining what skill mastery looks like. Integrating technology into the curriculum is putting a new twist on how teachers and students approach knowledge acquisition.”
NMC Horizon Report K-12 2015
http://www.nmc.org/publication/nmc-horizon-report-2015-k-12-edition/
• ask good questions in order to get good answers
• access and acquire material from the appropriate digital information sources
• analyse the raw material to distinguish value, bias, and re-usable information
• apply the knowledge within a real-world problem or simulation
• assess the process and the product.
Knowledge 2.0
“The more we interact with these information spaces, the more the environment changes, and the very act of finding information reshapes not only the context that gives that information meaning, but also the meaning itself.”
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DouglasThomas and John Seely Brown
BIG information world
The question is.....?
How should a librarian and technology connect?
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What’s the story with the yellow blotch?
SearchReSearch bloghttp://searchresearch1.blogspot.com.au/
A blog about search, search skills, teaching search, learning how to search, learning how to use Google effectively, learning how to do research. It also covers a good deal of sense-
making and information foraging.
For several years people have been fascinated by small, robot-
like figures popping up in city streets and other innocuous places. These figures, now
documented in flickr pools and blog posts from cities arose the
world, can be attributed to Stikman (sometimes searched for and referred to as "stickman"), an
anonymous graffiti artist, sometimes perhaps going by the alias "Bob," who has been putting
these images up since at least 2006.
http://searchresearch1.blogspot.com.au/2013/01/wednesday-search-challenge-11613-whats.html
Search for 'painted yellow man robot'
yielded 'stickman' for a better explanation.
About 3 minutes Reply
put video
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..... because your knowledge and my knowledge, based on what search results we are served, may be very different from each other.
Siva Vaidhyanathan in The Googlization of Everything,
Filter bubble!
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“the first search result is clicked on twice as much as the second, and the second twice as much as the third”. Dan Russell, Google’s usability chief
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Search is fast without necessarily being intelligent
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Rather than simply identifying a useful page, these systems try to pull the information from those pages that might be what a user is looking for, and to make
this immediately apparent.
More informative results?
Learn about the latest additions to search so as to get the most out of Google.
http://www.google.com/insidesearch/features/
Because Google is where everyone starts!
By demonstrating how to connect a database information repository (such as EBSCO, Gale, or JStor) or a local library service with Google Scholar, we are helping students broaden the scope of their information seeking, while at the same time refining the quality of the information response.
RSS topic and journal alerts
1. Find the right thing 2. Get the best summary 3. Go broader and deeper
https://developers.google.com/custom-search/docs/tutorial/creatingcse
Google Trends
Flu
embed code is also available
Wolfram|Alpha is a free online computational knowledge engine that generates answers to questions in real time by doing computations on its own vast internal knowledge base.
http://www.wolframalpha.com/educators/
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Your information flow might be so last century...
http://judyoconnell.com/2013/06/17/your-information-flow-might-be-so-last-century/
Begin with yourself
http://pennystocks.la/internet-in-real-time/
http://pennystocks.la/internet-in-real-time/
Devices are providing options for innovation never before possible.
Understand how to connect, communicate and collaborate
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social learning information team
This is the connected world!
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[social] self
• Social media • Video channels • Communication • Curation • QR Codes • Podcasts
[social] self
Personal learning environment –
relying on the people we connect
with through social networks and
collaborative tools e.g. Twitter,
Yammer.
Personal learning network –
knowing where or to whom to
connect and find professional
content
[learning] self
Personal web tools – used
for tracking our life and
powering our information
organisation e.g. photos to
Facebook, pictures to Flickr,
photos to Twitter
[learning] self
Cloud computing – utilising open
access between sources and devices
e.g. Edmodo, Evernote, Diigo.
Mixed reality – adopting e-devices and
augmented reality e.g. ebooks,
QRcodes, Layar browser.
Content curation – utilising web
services to filter and disseminate
resources, news, and knowledge
promptsl
[learning] self
Microblogging
Social bookmarking and tagging
Collaborative writing
Information management – e.g. Endnote, Easybib, Zotero
Information capture on multiple devices – e.g. Evernote
Library resources or databases all used for information
collection, RSS topic and journal alerts, and compatible
with research organisation tools
Online storage for access across multiple platforms
[information] self
[team] self
knowledge encounters
The Scout Report is the flagship publication of the Internet Scout Research Group. Published every Friday both on the Web and by email subscription, it provides a fast, convenient way to stay informed.
https://scout.wisc.edu/
http://oztlnet.com/
The OZTL_NET Discussion List is an email-based forum for information professionals working in Australian schools. It is supported by the teacher librarianship academic staff at the School of Information Studies , Charles Sturt University.
Discussion is open to all members of the Australian TL community and any people with a genuine interest in teacher librarianship and/or school libraries.
http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/96705
A crowdsourced collection of over 100 essays from around the world about trends in school libraries written by librarians, teachers, publishers, and library vendors.
http://bit.ly/digitaltoolbox
http://cooltoolsforschools.wikispaces.com/
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Use LiveBinders to integrate a variety of online resources in one location giving students what they need in context:
Organise
http://www.livebinders.com/play/play/245623
Evernote for Educators
Digital librarian
In talking about school libraries and the essential paradigm shift that is taking place, Stanley (2011) highlights three areas of influence:
Information fluency — using search engines effectively; evaluating online information; collaborating in virtual environments, and delivering material resources online.
Digital citizenship — understanding responsible and ethical use of information, and maintaining safe online practices.
Digital storytelling — reading, writing and listening to books in many formats; creating, collaborating and sharing in a range of mediums.
Digital citizenship
Stanley. D.B. (2011). Change has arrived for school libraries, School Library Monthly, 27 (4)4, 45–47.
21 C librarian
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Davies, A., Fidler, D., & Gorbis, M. (2011). Future work skills 2020.http://www.iftf.org/our-work/global-landscape/work/future-work-skills-2020/
Evolving Learning Landscape
Current thinking about 21st century skills, and the learning experiences that support their development, are essential starting points for capacity building. A list of the workforce skills presented by Davies, et al (2011, pp. 8-12) include:
• Sense-making • Social intelligence • Novel and adaptive thinking • Cross-cultural competency • Computational thinking
• New-media literacy • Transdisciplinarity • Design mindset • Cognitive load management • Virtual collaboration
http://www.iftf.org/our-work/global-landscape/work/future-work-skills-2020/
Challenge based learning
Project based learning
http://bit.ly/pgS98P http://bit.ly/pM6JiXSusie Boss & Jane Krauss
Guided Enquiry
Education’s value-add is
in coaching and
troubleshooting
when students are
applying their learning,
and in challenging
students to apply their
thinking to hands-on
learning by
doing and teaming.
The flipped classroom
Stop isolating, separating, and labelling the many aspects of library services
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Information curation
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Gather
Seek Follow
Explore
Cultivating inquisitive mindsets
Choose the right tool to re-frame information collection and organisation as highly flexible and collaborative information and knowledge conversations.
I need to search, scan, and select the best resources I can find for my own personal interests, and by making my choices available to others, I create a resource for many besides myself.It’s about knowing, learning,
sharing, and teaching, all in one.
Turn personal interest into a community of interest
The Solution: Infotention Traininghttp://www.rheingold.com/university/mini-courses/
Flipboard Magazine
http://theedublogger.com/2013/06/12/flipboard/
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Modelling exemplary use of
social media, search engines,
and collaborative research strategies.
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The leadership challenges are out there .....
http://libraryschool.libguidescms.com/hiddentreasures
Hidden treasures in the global commons
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Where do we begin?
• Communication
–sharing thoughts, questions, ideas and solutions
• Curation
–collecting and reflecting on what we encounter
• Collaboration
–working together to reach a goal
–putting talent, expertise and ‘smarts’ to work
• Critical thinking
– looking at problems in a new way
– linking learning across subjects and disciplines
• Creativity
– trying new approaches to get things done
– innovation and invention104
Will your library be be an important “hop, step, and jump” in your student’s learning futures?
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Are you trusting and listening to your students and giving them a role in helping define the future of your library services?
Will your library be the first step or not even be in the game?
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Y/Our connections are everything!
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O’Connell, J. (2011) “Change Has Arrived at an iSchool Library near you” in Information Literacy Beyond Library 2.0 Edited by Peter Godwin and Jo Parker, Facet. In publication.
Thank You
O'Connell, J., & Groom, D. (2010). Connect, communicate, collaborate. Acer Press.