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Internet Librarian 2011Learning, Innovation & Play
ACRL-ULS Internet Librarian wrap-upOctober 26, 2011
Rudy Leon@rudibrarian
Overarching themes
• Change• The future is constant learning• Learning is play / play is learning• Libraries have a role to play • Cumulative learning, learning
environments• John Seely Brown
http://t.co/8NJWdGr7
John Seely Brown
• Learning is changing• Learning how to learn is no longer enough• Learning will now require dispositions
which cannot be taught, but can only be cultivated
• How to build spaces to cultivate dispositions?
• How to train librarians to mentor these dispositions?
JSB’s Dispositions
• Curiosity. Amplify it.
• Questing. Probe, seek, uncover
• Connectivity. Learning with & from each other
The end of Cartesian knowing & identity
• Social view of learning: I participate, Therefore I am
• Understanding is socially constructed rise of constructivism?
• Dispositions toward forming affinity groups a key to success
• Wikipedia/Brittanica: not accuracy, but new literacy, new way of reading, new abilities required
Know, Make, Play
• Homo Sapien (knower) Homo Faber (maker)
• Now also, maker of context (remix culture. New context makes content new)
• New Blended Epistemology
Homo fabermaking
Homo ludenplaying
Homo sapien
knowing
training & learning track
• Training happens to you, learning is a verb
• Change• Responsibility on learner• Big concepts, transferable skills• Social, personalized• YouTube games
From Training to Learning Emily
Clasper
training & learning track
• What’s in it for them?• Keep it fun• Play! Encourage risk-taking, create a
comfortable environment for failure• ‘Canoe time’/participation, mixed
perspectives• Ask for 1 take-away
Making Learning Stick: A Dozen Tips Polly
Farrington
training & learning track
• Librarian led, Library supported learning• Allows librarians leadership opportunities,
leverage their own communities• Library must develop structural models
that support innovation, bring into strategic plan, and measure success
From Training to Learning: Institutionalizing Creativity and Innovation Lisa Hardy and Nancy
MacKenzie
Calgary Public Library initiatives
• Created Future Action think tank
• What is a Library Future? blog• www.whatisalibraryfuture.tumblr.com
• Imagine the Future day, everyone participating in different possibilities
Inno-play-ion
• Developing a culture of innovation How it effects our services
• Definitions of Innovation, of play • Fuel creativity, curiosity, collaboration • Idea exchange
Helene Blowers
Links to Internet Librarian presentations/slides
• JSB • Live stream: http://bit.ly/Il2011JSB• Slides: http://bit.ly/tKiWDP
• Emily Clasper’s slides: http://slidesha.re/IL2011EC
• Polly Alida Farrington’s Slides: http://bit.ly/IL2011PAF
• Lisa Hardy & Nancy MacKenzie’s slides http://bit.ly/s7hIOL
Questions?
Rudy Leon Technology Training & Outreach
LibrarianUniversity of Illinois at Urbana
@rudibrarianhttp://deepening.wordpress.com