burning pencils, sharpening questions
DESCRIPTION
A presentation to Library Tech 2010 at Macalester College, St Paul, MN 18th March 2010TRANSCRIPT
Burning Pencils, Sharpening Questions
Mad Ideas, Risk Assessment, Lunatic Action and Sane Friends
– Mad Idea # 7250
– Mad Idea # 7250
Anne Zarinnia
LibraryTech 2010, Macalester College St Paul, MN - March 18, 2010
CAVEAT EMPTOR
Matches, a knife, a magnifying glass, stringWireless junk, Morse-code tappers, old rifles, various cartridges
– Sound travels through the body– A .22 bullet travels over a mile – and you can make a gun
– Creative ways of making the light come on when Santa delivers the goods
Ph.D. Discovery: U.S. is BOTH enabled AND HELD BACK by organizational structures, strictures and habits – SAME OLD reform efforts, SAME OLD matrix organization
What do your pockets say about you?
Geographers – Scan!
Consider solutions… DREAM UP MAD IDEAS
The Future of Universities
Thepathlesspath http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2XekQnObxM, 2009
ACADEMIA FOR ALL– Mad Idea # 4351
– Mad Idea # 4351
1995 - Wisconsin “MESS”
School librarians – 50% >55
90 people on emergency licenses
Preparation programs closed
University faculty hard to replace
Curriculum out-dated
So… I called my colleague in Eau Claire…So… I called my colleague in Eau Claire…
A Virtual Department…
1997-1999 Whitewater / Eau Claire project – hybrid program offering access to licenses & degrees
1999 UWSSLEC (University of Wisconsin System School Library Education Consortium)
1. Whitewater (HQ)2. Eau Claire3. Oshkosh4. Superior5. Madison
CREATING - A NETWORK OF PROFESSORS
– – Mad Idea # 4352
Mad Idea # 4352
…Of Wisconsin Faculty
1997-1999 Whitewater / Eau Claire project – hybrid program offering access to licenses & degrees
SERVES STUDENTS NOT CURRENTLY REACHED
The “Mad Idea” - in Reality
2007 Shortages, stasis - A NEED FOR REDESIGN…
UWSSLECStudent
Locations 1997-2009
IMLSLaura Bush
Scholarships2010
Blue = applied Green – award
UWSSLEC
NIMBLE – a definition
1. Quick, light, or agile in movement or action
2. Quick, clever, and acute in devising or understanding
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/nimble
Technologically NIMBLE
Understandings and knowledge- Habits of mind
Curious, creative, innovative, problem solver- Attitudes
Risk-taker, self remedy, continuous learner, constant change, confident,
- LeadershipAware, skilled, expertise, critical assessment - not a magpie
Professionally NIMBLE
A?
UWSSLEC/ UW SLIS Meeting , Madison SLIS, October 2009
Professionally NIMBLE
Beautiful Statistics
Hans Rosling www.gapminder.org
Gapminder.orgGapminder WorldGapminder USA
For UK: http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_8070000/8070108.stm
TWENTY FIRST CENTURY Student Outcomes
Partnership for 21st Century Skills
1. Core Subjects and 21st Century Themes
2. Learning and Innovation Skills – Creativity and Innovation – Critical Thinking &
Problem Solving – Communication &
Collaboration
3. Information, Media and Technology Skills4. Life and Career Skills
2010 - Wisconsin “MESS”
School financeThe economyGlobalization
RESULT: LOSS OF POSITIONS
Changing Demographicswww.getfacts.wisc.edu/
Enrollment Projections
K-12 Public School - 1994-2016http://www.apl.wisc.edu/Richelle Winkler & Sarah Kemp, 2008Presentation
to the 87th Wisconsin State Education Convention
Immediate Problem K-5
K-5 Public School - 2005-2016www.apl.wisc.edu/Richelle Winkler & Sarah Kemp, 2008Presentation
to the 87th Wisconsin State Education Convention
High School Diploma - ONLY
www.getfacts.wisc.edu/Applied Population Laboratory
RESULT: LOSS OF STATE
International Emphasis on Innovation
Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Christian Science Monitor, Feb 21, 2010, p30
The Innovation Economyby Mark Trumbull
AALBORG – A European Community “University of Innovation”
• Not afraid to fail• Diversity of perspective• Real world experience• Work in groups• Project based• SWIM – collaborative information search process• TRIZ Contradictions Matrix – 40 principles
“Creativity, Innovation and the Use of Information,”
Creativity, Innovation and the Use of Information – Aalborg University 2008 Carol Kuhlthau – Keynote Speaker
AALBORG: Education for Innovation
Creativity – unlimited use of informationInnovation – knowledge in useProject based curricula Diverse groups of studentsLocal partnershipsInnovation with the Hyper Library, (Rosenstand)
Curriculum for Innovation
Saltire - Information Commons
Asked the students: “What would make your work easier…”
– Working together, Conversations – ALL information in one location– Combine art, design, light, computers,
family furniture
Result: 97% occupancy
Jan Howden , 2006Glasgow Caledonian
Flexible spaces
Movable Inflatable Office
Only in India?
Salad Bar
Innovation Unlimited!
US Lags in Elementary Education
Importance of education in the early years
• Remoteness• Educational level
of parents• School finance
Groups of children (6-12 years old in groups of 4 or so), given unrestricted and unsupervised access to the Internet can learn almost anything on their own. It doesn't matter who or where they are. We know this from 20 years of research, standing on the shoulders of Aurobindo, Piaget, Vygotsky and Montessori.
Barefoot in the Head, Sunday, July 12, 2009 http://sugatam.blogspot.com/
Groups of children (6-12 years old in groups of 4 or so), given unrestricted and unsupervised access to the Internet can learn almost anything on their own. It doesn't matter who or where they are. We know this from 20 years of research, standing on the shoulders of Aurobindo, Piaget, Vygotsky and Montessori.
Barefoot in the Head, Sunday, July 12, 2009 http://sugatam.blogspot.com/
– – Mad Idea # 4353Mad Idea # 4353
This kind of learning is activated by questions, not answers.This kind of learning is activated by questions, not answers.
Gylemuir Elementary School
Edinburgh Central Education Resources
“EXPLORATORIUM”
“an inquiry approach that engages the inquisitive energy children bring to learning – “
Nine Thousand Straws Jean Sausele Knodt
“an inquiry approach that engages the inquisitive energy children bring to learning – “
Nine Thousand Straws Jean Sausele Knodt
Charlotte-Mecklenberg Public Library
• This collection of photos, available on Charlotte Mecklenburg Library's Teen Website at www.libraryloft.org, showcases teen events at Library branches throughout Mecklenburg County.
Sugata Mitra: Future of universities
There is no need for classes with hundreds
The university will be about research and assessment…
“If you say you are an engineer… …come for a month and prove it.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rs9B0di3CmI
– – Mad Idea # 4355
Mad Idea # 4355
JISC/ BL GOOGLE GENERATION
“Information skills are needed more than ever and at a higher level if people are to really avail themselves of the benefits of an information society.”
“Emerging research findings from the US points to the fact that these skills need to be inculcated during the formative years of childhood: by university or college it is too late to reverse engineer deeply ingrained habits, notably an uncritical trust in branded search engines to deliver quick fixes. This will require concerted action between libraries, schools and parents.”
“CONFIDENCE LEVEL: HIGH (AND THE STAKES ARE ENORMOUS)”
Information Behaviour of the Researcher of the Future, 2008, p32This study was commissioned by the British Library and JISC.
Children Learn Without Teachers
Sugata Mitra: Hole-in-the-wall PROJECT, TED talkhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVkIALoYiA4
Sugata Mitra: Hole-in-the-wall PROJECT, TED talkhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVkIALoYiA4
Sugata Mitra: NULL HYPOTHESIS“ Tamil children with no teachers and who know no
English cannot learn biotechnology on their own.”
Sugata Mitra: NULL HYPOTHESIS“ Tamil children with no teachers and who know no
English cannot learn biotechnology on their own.”
Pre- Post Test: Biogenetics from England’s GCSE exam(General Certificate of Secondary Education)Pre- Post Test: Biogenetics from England’s GCSE exam(General Certificate of Secondary Education)
Lankes and the New Librarianship
Fundamental purpose of librarians: To improve society through knowledge creation– Education to bootstrap society out of poverty– Support for the remote and underserved– Help innovate and engage in entrepreneurship– Actions not stuff
Fundamental purpose of librarians: To improve society through knowledge creation– Education to bootstrap society out of poverty– Support for the remote and underserved– Help innovate and engage in entrepreneurship– Actions not stuff
“New Librarianship”–Slides, Audio, and Screencast of R. David Lankes Keynote @ Charleston Conference, Nov. 2009
“…a view of a new librarianship, one focused on knowledge and action instead of artifacts and collection”
– – Mad Idea # 4357Mad Idea # 4357
American “Holes in the Wall”
We need EVERYONEOur CHILDREN especially in K-5 now
ARE YOUR SOCIAL SECURITY
What MAD ideas have you had?
The future is NOW!
HOW?
• “Cook up” MAD ideas• Entertain unusual notions and views• Ignore the structures that separate us
Actively engage in:
Thank you
CONTACT
Anne Zarinnia, Ph.D.Dept. Education Foundations, Chair
University of Wisconsin – Whitewater
Additional ReferencesUWSSLEC: www.uwsslec.orgBritish Library: http://www.bl.uk/JISC Google Generation downloads from University College, London:
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/infostudies/research/ciber/downloads/Intute http://www.intute.ac.uk/ (created by a consortium of seven universities to help students find
useful information on the web)Wisconsin Applied Population Laboratory Presentations related to demographics and education
(http://www.apl.wisc.edu/briefsreports.html#presentations) Richelle Winkler & Sarah Kemp. Wisconsin’s Public School Enrollment Past, Present, & Future.
Presentation to the 87th Wisconsin State Education Convention January 24, 2008Interactive data mapping demographics www.getfacts.wisc.edu/
Carol Kuhlthau, Professor II Emerita, Rutgers(http://comminfo.rutgers.edu/~kuhlthau/)
Interactive TRIZ Contradictions Matrix (http://triz40.com/) Sugata Mitra Hole-in-the-Wall TED Talk
(http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/sugata_mitra_shows_how_kids_teach_themselves.html)SWIM training modules http://www.swiminfo.dk/pdf/hyperlibrary.pdfPhoto: Ring of Brodgar, Orkney (Photo by Zarinnia)
TRIZ40 Contradictions Matrix
http://www.innovation-triz.com/TRIZ40/