The document is a presentation about 21st century school libraries and leading learning. It discusses how the digital environment has changed how students learn and interact with information. It argues that school libraries need to change to reflect this new media environment by becoming more learner-centered and harnessing new technologies like social media, videos, and mobile devices. The presentation provides many examples of new tools and strategies teacher librarians can use to redesign libraries and help students develop skills for lifelong learning.
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21C SCHOOL LIBRARIES
LEADING LEARNING
18th March, 2009
Judy O’Connell
St Joseph’s College, Hunters Hill
judyoconnell.com
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5. Almost half of all internet users now
use search engines on a
typical day.
- Pew Internet Memo - August 6 2008
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6. Approximately 70% of the digital
universe is created
by
individuals
The Diverse and exploding Digital Universe ‐ IDC
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7. YouTube, a company that didn’t
exist just a few years ago,
hosts 100 million video
streams a day
The Diverse and exploding Digital Universe ‐ IDC
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9. Ten Years Past
Few or no experiences with....
websites, email, spam, phishing, computer viruses
mobile phones were rare and expensive
a Sony Walkman was state of the art
CDs were pretty cool
WiFi was almost unknown
The library was all about books!
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14. “The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who
cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn,
unlearn, and relearn.” - Alvin Toffler
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21. On Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2009
Google launched
Latitude, a location-tracking
service that uses GPS hardware
found in smart phones to pinpoint
your position on a map and share
that information with friends.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-Oq-9enE-k
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22. everything is a matter of degree
http://www.flickr.com/photos/josefstuefer/114063651/
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23. we need to start redesigning our
learning environments to address,
leverage, and harness the new media
environment
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24. we need to start redesigning our
school libraries and the work of
teacher librarians for these learning
environments
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32. “Right from the outset –
the internet had a
completely different use
for students.”.
- Dean Groom, Head of Learning Design, MQ University
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36. We now have a information ecology that
is an open, self-managed, fostered, and
conducive to knowledge flow between
content and connections.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cdm/54246114/
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37. quot;This new media environment can be
enormously disruptive to our current
teaching methods and philosophies.
Students need to move from being
simply knowledgeable to being
knowledge-able.quot;
http://www.academiccommons.org/commons/essay/knowledgable-knowledge-able
- Michael Wesch, 2009
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41. 2009 Horizon Report
* Time-to-Adoption Horizon: One Year or Less
o Mobiles
o Cloud Computing
* Time-to-Adoption Horizon: Two to Three Years
o Geo-Everything
o The Personal Web
* Time-to-Adoption Horizon: Four to Five Years
o Semantic-Aware Applications
o Smart Objects
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42. Horizon AU
+
Horizon K12
http://horizon.nmc.org/k12/Main_Page
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43. 21C learning
http://www.flickr.com/photos/transkamp/54371294/
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44. SHIFT YOUR HEADSPACE
• global connections and
collaborations
• rigor, critical thinking skills,
curiosity and creativity
• digital citizenship
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45. SHIFT YOUR HEADSPACE
• immerse yourself in a
participatory culture
• think across disciplines, spaces,
functions and knowledge
connections
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46. how do we get new media tools into our
classrooms?
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70. educational origami
“We the teachers are the immigrants and our students are
the natives, brought up in a world where there has always
been computers and the internet, where information is
always instant and varied. Our teaching and their learning
must reflect this”.
http://edorigami.wikispaces.com/
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80. media spaces
shop signs!
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81. creativity NOT productivity
Show us your Library 2.0
http://www.flickr.com/groups/libraryspaces/
http://www.flickr.com/groups/library_interiors/
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