From Players To Guides: Learning in a Hyperlinked World

From Players to Guides: Learning In a Hyperlinked World Helene Blowers Digital Strategy Director Columbus Metropolitan Library LibraryBytes.com http://www.flickr.com/photos/psoup216/533958571/

Web 1.0 Web 2.0

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“ The central idea of (Web 2.0 technologies) is harnessing collective intelligence.” - Tim O’Reilly, O’Reilly Media API API API API

“ I think we're in -- in a lot of ways-- a period of the most profound reinvention of ...education and how people need to learn since the invention of literacy. ” - Tim O’Reily cc. Aaron Schmidt http://www.flickr.com/photos/aaronschmidt/281619803/

Design & create

Communicate

Symphony – to see the big picture

Empathy – to read emotions handle relationships.

Play and fun

Meaning … relevance

The Digital Divide

The New Digital Divide

Those who know how to “think” about search vs. those who don’t.

Those who know how to validate soft information vs. those who don’t

Those who know where to find information in new “hot” channels vs. those who don’t.

Those who understand the current culture of informal languages vs. those who don’t.

Those who know how to get information to travel to them vs. those who still chase it.

Those who have the knowledge and skills to create and re-mix digital media and those who don’t.

Those that understand learning is a continual process vs. those that view learning as an achievement.

The New Digital Divide

“ Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's jobs with yesterday's tools." - Marshall McLuhan http://www.flickr.com/photos/wiseacre/175479093/

Types of social information

Photos, podcasts, blogs, scapblogs,

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Published knowledge is old knowledge : The art of intelligence in the 21st Century will be less concerned with integrating old knowledge and more concerned with using published knowledge as a path to exactly the right source or sources that can create new knowledge tailored to a new situation , in real time . - Robert Steele http://www.flickr.com/photos/fredarmitage/91520238/

WE NEED A CROSSING GUARD

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What can you do to constantly keep up with changes?

Player [ pley -er] noun

a person or thing that plays.

one actively involved especially in a competitive field or process.

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Become a “ Knowledge Player ”:

15 minutes a day

15 minutes a day

Subscribe to just 5 blogs

Become a “ Knowledge Player ”:

15 minutes a day

Tag “play items” in Del.icio.us

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15 minutes a day

Create a learning blog

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15 minutes a day

Create a learning blog

PLAY!!!!!

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Teaching Learning

Learning is the process of becoming rather than the process of acquiring.

- Stephen Downes

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How can you help others navigate the learning maze? How can we help them become? http://www.flickr.com/photos/skip/42288914 /

Guide [gīd] noun 1) a person who exhibits and explains points of interest. http://www.flickr.com/photos/sadalit/74439495/

Become a Discovery Guide : http://www.flickr.com/photos/liquid101/864754639/

It's about Training Learning

Engaged + Motivated = Learning http://www.flickr.com/photos/justcharlaine/531111910/

I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn. - Albert Einstein http://www.flickr.com/photos/balenski/1649468134/

Challenge the classroom model

Become a Discovery Guide :

The biggest enemy to learning is the talking teacher – John Holt, How Children Learn

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Remember exposure is the 1 st step towards learning

Become a Discovery Guide : http://www.flickr.com/photos/photo_phantoms/465339294/

Focus on

Learners have as much to share as Guides

Become a Discovery Guide : http://www.flickr.com/photos/91751279@N00/187226314/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/shouldbeworking/2662929578/ Collaborative Space

Focus on FUN!

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Warning: Deep Thoughts …

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Lifelong Learning Habits:

Begin with the end in mind

Accept responsibility for own learning

View problems as challenges

Have confidence in yourself as a competent, effective learner

Create you own learning toolbox

Use technology to your advantage

Teach & mentor others

7.5 …

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Knowledge playing Discovery Guiding Learning Curve fun!

P2P

Peer support

Peer production

Peer collaboration

Peer LEARNING

Libraries as learning environments …

What should do to fuel learning , knowledge & wisdom ? Focus on … Curiosity Creativity Collaboration http://www.flickr.com/photos/fornal/394740182/

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Teambuilding must be a part of every teaching curriculum. Learning can only begin when students feel secure with those that share their learning space.

“ The illiterate of the future are not those who can't read or write but those who cannot learn, unlearn , and re-learn .” - Alvin Toffler http://www.flickr.com/photos/ogimogi/2253657555/

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Helene Blowers Digital Strategy Director Columbus Metropolitan Library [email_address] My slides are @ www.LibraryBytes.com