1. When everyone has a library in their pocket or in their bag, what is the new role of the Teacher Librarian in the 21st Century? “Change doesn’t care if you like it or not!” (Anders Sorman-Nilsson, 2011)
2. Views from the revolution Generally learners: are not good curators are not good resource managers are not good searchers do not understand metadata do not understand the cloud or the semantic web are not able to assess source credibility are not able to assess veracity think a LMS will save them, up until it doesn’t confuse digital citizenship with cybersafety
7. When everyone has a library in their pocket or in their bag, what is the new role of the Teacher Librarian in the 21st Century? “Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” Albert Einstein
9. I encourage students to use a range of technology in my Library? Students would like to use technology in their learning? I would like my own children to utilise technology in their education? I own a mobile phone with internet/email access? If there is a difference between #1 and #2, then there is tension in the classroom - the students want to use technology whereas the teacher doesn't. If #1 is more than #3 then we have a moral issue - teachers want their own children to utilise technology in their classrooms but do not want to undertake such practices in their own classroom with other people's children that they as teachers have responsibility for regarding their education. Quick survey
10. 3 important questions (that no one at Cobb & Co et al asked) What does a Teacher Librarian/Library offer that technology cannot How can a Teacher Librarian/Library meaningfully value add technology What skills/services do a Teacher Librarian/Library poses that teachers & students want (conscious incompetence) or need (unconscious incompetence)
11. What is the effect in classrooms? Non-routine interactive Non-routine analytic Routine manual Routine cognitive Non-routine manual learner The dilemma of the school: The skills that are easiest to teach and test are also the ones that are easiest to digitize, automate, and outsource Economy-wide measures of routine and non-routine task input (U.S.) Professor Linda Darling Hammond