2.0
Musings on Web 2.0, Generation Y
and College Readiness
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library resources or librarians
No animals were harmed during the production of this presentation.
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My background
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• Schools and Staffing Survey, 2003-04
– 52,419,400 students
– 3,722,000 teachers
– 116,655 schools
– 97,275 librarians
– 78,411 libraries
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• Academic Libraries Survey, 2006
– 14,203,705 students
– 26,469 librarians
– 3,617 libraries
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• School Libraries • Academic Libraries
– 33% schools without libraries – 7.3 librarians per library
– 1.2 librarians per library – 536 students per librarian
– 539 students per librarian
– 38 teachers per librarian
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Academic Libraries
vs. the World Wide Web
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Academic Libraries
vs. the World Wide Web
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Academic Libraries
vs. the World Wide Web
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Information Literacy Defined
Academic Libraries
Information literacy is a set of abilities requiring individuals to \"recognize when
information is needed and have the ability to locate, evaluate, and use effectively the
vs. the World Wide Web
needed information.\"
Information literacy also is increasingly important in the contemporary environment of
rapid technological change and proliferating information resources. Because of the
escalating complexity of this environment, individuals are faced with diverse, abundant
information choices--in their academic studies, in the workplace, and in their personal
lives. Information is available through libraries, community resources, special interest
organizations, media, and the Internet--and increasingly, information comes to
individuals in unfiltered formats, raising questions about its authenticity, validity, and
reliability.
In addition, information is available through multiple media, including graphical, aural,
and textual, and these pose new challenges for individuals in evaluating and
understanding it. The uncertain quality and expanding quantity of information pose large
challenges for society. The sheer abundance of information will not in itself create a
more informed citizenry without a complementary cluster of abilities necessary to use
information effectively.
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Enter Generation Y...
The Millennials
25 years old!
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Enter Generation Y...
The Millennials
Freedom of choice and • Collaboration and
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expression relationships
Customization and • Speed of communication
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personalization
• Innovation
Transparency
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Values and integrity
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Play and interactivity
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kra_z9vMnHo
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• My class size is 115.
18% of my teachers know my
•
name.
• I will complete 49% of the
assigned readings.
• I will read 8 books, 2,300
Web pages and 1,281
Facebook profiles this year.
• I will write 42 pages for
class and over 500 pages of
e-mail this semester.
• When I graduate, I will have
a job that doesn't exist
today.
Filling this out won't get me there.
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College Readiness
• Lack of critical thinking skills
• Lack of citation skills and plagiarism
• Failure to use credible, authoritative
information sources
• Lack of depth to research and
analysis
• Lack of writing skills
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Academic Libraries
vs. Web 2.0
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The Groundswell
A framework for how to create success in the groundswell based on the
four steps in what we call the POST method:
– P = profile (what are your patrons doing in the groundswell?)
– O = objectives (what are you trying to accomplish?)
– S = strategy (how are you trying to change your relationship with
patrons?)
– T = technology (what social technologies will you use?)
If your social strategy starts with the T, you're doing it backwards!
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Credibility, Authority,
Citation and Plagiarism
• Breast Milk: The Other White Milk
Grass roots activist vs. The National Pork Board
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\"Remember who buys the groceries in nearly
90% of the households in the US. You just
started a fight with them! Is that how your
industry members--pork suppliers--expect you
to represent their interests?\"
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\"Laptops closed!\"
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The Experiment
\"'We were led to the conclusion,' they wrote, 'that the
five-year olds in the toys group were attending quite
strategically, distributing their attention between toy
play and viewing so that they looked at what for them
were the most informative parts of the program.'\"
- The Tipping Point
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The School 2.0 – 7 Tips
• Don't throw technology into the • Design educational programs
classroom and hope for good according to the eight norms.
things.
• Reinvent yourself as a teacher,
• Cut back on lecturing. professor or educator.
• Empower students to collaborate.
• Focus on lifelong learning, not
teaching to the test.
• Use technology to get to know each
student.
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Questions? Thoughts?
More on Library Planning, Assessment & Information
Literacy?
Stay in touch
Stephen Spohn spohn@nelinet.net
Thank you
Thanks for your time! Let us know about your successes
and challenges with planning and assessment.
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