computers from toddlers to teens and beyond
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A presentation given at SEFLIN on March 8th 2012TRANSCRIPT
with BOB
Are you teaching formal classes?
Do you have youth who need to learn?
How much time do you have to teach?
I know I am supposed to be doing something I just don’t know what or how
Can you make me hip?
Cool
Fly
Dope
Swagged Out
Be yourself – honesty counts
Confident in your skills
Confident that you know what is important
Important > latest fad
Confident that this is what you want to do
or else why are you working with the public?
Show video
This is the sort of thing you need to know
To understand where we were
To understand what is happening
To understand where we are going
What do you know
Social Networks
Physical Skills
Time & Place
Hidden details
First we will take a couple of minutes to go through what we saw and what it means to us today
What technologies will you use to teach?
Laptops
Tablets
Remote access
Downloadable content vs. streaming
Who still uses MySpace?
30 million in December of 2011
Facebook is at 800+ million in January of 2012
Are you teaching How to ask? Or just Where to ask?
How to evaluate?
WikiPedia and original sources
RIM already dying?
Do you text out class reminders?
http://www.textem.net/
http://text4freeonline.com/
If what you learned 3 years ago is outdated now….
When is the last time you took a class to learn something new?
Are you giving them a fish or teaching them how?
Not “click here to print” but “Look in the Office menu for print options”
What is your phrase?
It is especially important to have something they will remember
Anyone from my teaching Seniors class?
Remember that hook?
Use video or music to catch their attention
Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act
covers online interactions for children under 13
including apps
http://www.ftc.gov/os/2012/02/120216mobil
e_apps_kids.pdf
BREAK TIME
(at this point we should be halfway done
approximately 11 am)
Physical Skills
What you are training ON
What you are training FOR
What is it?
What do you use?
Library computer
Laptops (customer or library)
Tablet (customer or library)
Whose is it anyway?
Touch Me
How do you use it?
Mouse
Keyboard
Touch Screen
Speech
But I want more
Customer Devices
eReaders
Phones
Google Glasses
Meet me at…
Where do you use it?
Bank of computers
Help at the table/cubicle
Remote assistance
Beyond the Borderlands
Training as Outreach
Skype
Who uses what
Touch screens are ubiquitous
Younger users expect everything to be touch
Make something
Give them a reason to use the library
Learn through trial and error
Take a chance
You are in charge
The librarians of the future are also our community leaders. They not only inform their communities, but they also teach, show, and introduce their communities to new things.
Time & Place
Teaching in a classroom
Grabbing a moment
Make a minute
The new classroom
Learning is not centered on a room it happens where you happen to be
Use the same ideas and resources that teachers use
http://ilearntechnology.com/
Younger students
The attention span of a gnat (or the typical husband)
Hands on
Color and shapes
• We will create a presentation later for them
Reading level students
Inspire to understand through graphic novels
• Mouseguard
Speed Reading - Extreme Speed Booking
• Like speed dating for books
• Gamification of reading
Makeup!
Facetime
Skype
Password Length All Characters Only Lowercase
3 characters4 characters5 characters6 characters7 characters8 characters9 characters10 characters11 characters12 characters13 characters14 characters
0.86 seconds1.36 minutes2.15 hours8.51 days2.21 years2.10 centuries20 millennia1,899 millennia180,365 millennia17,184,705 millennia1,627,797,068 millennia154,640,721,434 millennia
0.02 seconds.046 seconds11.9 seconds5.15 minutes2.23 hours2.42 days2.07 months4.48 years1.16 centuries3.03 millennia78.7 millennia2,046 millennia
http://musingsaboutlibrarianship.blogspot.com/2012/02/using-storify-for-libraries.html
