Technology offers incredible opportunities to transform the way the library sector skills itself and the learning for the community. Technology often defines our comfort with change and our ability to adapt. This session will explore the ways in technology has shifted the balance of the expert, but not the role of wisdom. To foster new opportunities for engagement and communication, libraries must grapple with a legacy and empower people to find where innovation and risk meet.
10. The Fifth Discipline
“The more you learn, the more
acutely aware you become of
your ignorance.”
Peter Senge
P–10
11. The Fifth Discipline
The 5
1. Systems thinking
2. Personal mastery
3. Mental models
4. Building shared vision
5. Team learning
http://www.flickr.com/photos/12426416@N00/6042984689
12. The Fifth Discipline
Insights about experts
Openness to learning more
New ways of thinking
Deeply inquisitive
“Today’s problems come from
yesterday’s solutions.”
http://www.flickr.com/photos/60648084@N00/2610059970
14. Navigation – BE wise
Apophenia
‘Making connections where
none previously existed’ -
Danah Boyd
Seeing meaningful patterns or
connections
http://www.flickr.com/photos/49503165485@N01/5387961900
P–14
15. Weapons of Mass Instruction
John Taylor Gatto
Production and consumption
“…help kids take an education rather
than merely receive schooling.”
“Problems encountered outside school
walls are treated as peripheral when
in truth they are always central.”
http://www.flickr.com/photos/45688888@N08/5868477998
P–15
16. Navigation – BE wise
Open-source teaching
Teachers pay teachers
MOOCs
User pays
User wisdom
P–16
17. Skills – BE flexible
Learning & literacy
Shaping minds
Reflecting curiosity
Critical thinking
Creative thinking
Time
http://www.flickr.com/photos/51035553780@N01/5536535796
P–17
18. Skills – BE flexible
Aust. Curriculum
Intercultural understanding
Ethical behaviour
Social capability
Rethinking failure
http://www.flickr.com/photos/10504927@N08/4252355555
P–18
19. Skills – BE flexible
Teachers do not need more tools –
you are the carpenters of learning.
Build and create.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/37921614@N00/3312115991
P–19
21. Skills – BE flexible
Search
amateurs vs. experts
AND
Search knowing it exists
AUTHENTICATION
Search knowing if it exists
VERIFICATION
100 Time Saving Search Engines
for Serious Scholars: Online
Universities
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4112/4945177655_154b274760.jpg
29. A New Culture of Learning
John Seely-Brown
The web is a participatory medium
Constantly changed & shaped by
participation
Vast resources: motivation &
boundaries
Imagination
http://www.flickr.com/photos/23760200@N04/3182820590
P–29
30. Experts – BE engaged
Not just kids
Hanging out
Messing around
Geeking out
http://www.flickr.com/photos/56041749@N02/6400358699
P–30
31. Wherever – BE resourceful
Technology on trial
Open-mind
Knowledge
Play
Internet Archive: 1m.
torrents
The Internet Map
http://internet-map.net/
P–31
32. Wherever – BE resourceful
Gamer’s goals
Improve
Diversity
Solve
Fun
Risk
P–32
33. Wherever – BE resourceful
Replay and refine
Experimental
Reward, recognition
Integrated experiences
Augmented experiences
‘Books aren’t dead. They’ve just
gone digital.’
P–33
34. Putting libraries on trial
“A funny thing happened on the way to its predicted
obsolescence. The library became more popular
than ever.”
“They come to study. They come to work together.
They come to use technology they can’t carry
around. They come here to consult with experts,
with librarians.”
Mark Lamster, re: NYPL
P–34
35. Orbiting the Giant Hairball
“…sweet dividends of prudent
ingenuity.”
Gordon Mackenzie
http://www.flickr.com/photos/12426416@N00/134671943
P–35
36. Putting technology on trial
Relationshift
Technology is the weapon of mass
(differentiated) instruction
Mimicry is also inspiration
Expert acknowledges the creativity
of the crowd
New evolving from old
Two large stones: find your compass
Goyte – Somebodies – YouTube Orchestra