JUDY O’CONNELL CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY
Leadershipinaconnectedage:
Change, challenge and productive chaos!!
Judy O’Connell!
Library2.014 7October

Knowledge networks & digital innovation!
6 March 1991! A bit vague but exciting!!!

A printing press for evenly printin
ink onto a print medium such as
paper or cloth. !
change!

The internet is a good thing. !
Look what happened in 25 years!!
challenge!

The Web at 25!
Overall verdict: !
The internet has been a plus for society and an
especially good thing for individual users!
http://www.pewinternet.org/2014/02/27/the-web-at-25-in-the-u-s/!
productive chaos!

http://pennystocks.la/internet-in-real-time/!

Voices of the people!
http://www.elon.edu/predictions/

Digital Life in 2025 - the 2014 survey!
http://www.elon.edu/e-web/imagining/surveys/2014_survey/default.xhtml!

"Gutenberg Parenthesis”!

Eisenstadt (a Gutenberg scholar): the book did not take
on its own form until 50 years after it was invented by
Gutenberg. Printing was originally called "automatic
handwriting." [horseless carriage]!

Blueprint for successful leadership!!
creative commons licensed (BY-SA) flickr photo by Atos International: http://flickr.com/photos/atosorigin/11116578645 !
Knowing the trends in knowledge
construction and participatory culture.!
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Knowing how to leverage social media.!
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Is the “Gutenberg Parenthesis” a way of
understanding the introduction of the
flipped classroom and its epistemological
conundrums?!

what does it really mean for !
leadership !
in a connected age?!

not just a
discussion
about selfies!
Robert Cornelius in 1839, believed to be the world's first selfie. Photograph: Library of Congress!
“digital footprint”!

http://www.businessinsider.com.au/the-internet-is-getting-too-big-and-its-becoming-a-problem-for-some-service-providers-2014-8?op=1!
not just about what we
want to buy!
Celtis Pets!

chirp! a plant watering alarm !
drone pilot locates missing 82-year-old man after three day search!
not just a
about our
technology!
man accused of murder asked Siri where to hide the body!

It’s about what we grow!!
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http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2014-07/11/indoor-farm !
10,000 lettuces a day!

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Leadership & connected learning !
welcome innovation !
embrace change !
meet the challenges of our global connected future !
creative commons licensed (BY) flickr photo by AlicePopkorn: http://flickr.com/photos/alicepopkorn/225039522!
5!

http://youtu.be/mFBqOgCssZI !

Thomas, D., & Brown, J. S. (2011). A new culture of learning: Cultivating the imagination for a world of
constant change (Vol. 219). Lexington, KY: CreateSpace.
“Information absorption is a
cultural and social process of
engaging with the constantly
changing world around us”. p47!

We have a digital knowledge
ecosystem which demands a new
knowledge flow between content and connections.
creative commons licensed (BY-NC-SA) flickr photo by kassemmounhem: http://flickr.com/photos/122638947@N08/13889171653 !

“The current learning landscape is constantly changing in terms of what is
learned, the context in which learning takes place, and who is
learning.”(Paas, 2011, p. 2) !
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The following aspects impact on the learner or his/her learning:!
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o Evolving needs of learners!
o Developing knowledge building environments!
o Focusing on personalisation!
o Evolving spaces for learning!
o Evolving learning devices or hardware!
o Evolving pedagogy!
Paas, F Van Merrienboer, J and Van Gog, T 2011, ‘Designing instruction for the contemporary learning landscape’, in K R Harris, S Graham !
& T Urdan (eds.), APA Educational Psychology Handbook: Vol. 3. Application to Learning and Teaching, Washington: American!
Psychological Association, pp. 335-357, viewed 14 May 2012, http://ro.uow.edu.au/edupapers/374/!

Davies, A., Fidler, D., & Gorbis, M. (2011).
Future work skills 2020.
http://www.iftf.org/our-work/global-landscape/work/future-work-skills-2020/ !

Evolving Learning Landscape"
Current thinking about 21st century skills, and the learning
experiences that support their development, are essential
starting points for capacity building. A list of the workforce
skills presented by Davies, et al (2011, pp. 8-12) include:"
• Sense-making
• Social intelligence
• Novel and adaptive thinking
• Cross-cultural competency
• Computational thinking
• New-media literacy
• Transdisciplinarity
• Design mindset
• Cognitive load management
• Virtual collaboration
http://www.iftf.org/our-work/global-landscape/work/future-work-skills-2020/ !

Sustainable learning involves
a pedagogic fusion between
environments, tools, formats
and meta-literacy capabilities.
(Mackey & Jacobson 2011)
Mackey, T P and Jacobson, T E 2011, ‘Reframing information literacy as a metaliteracy’, College & Research
Libraries, vol. 72, no. 1, pp. 62–78.

“Skills have become the global currency of 21st-
century economies” (OECD, 2012, p. 10). In this
context, skills are defined as the combination of
knowledge, attributes and competencies that
can be learned and that allow an individual to
successfully perform a task.
These skills can be built upon through continuous
learning.The sum of the skills available to any
given economy forms the human capital of the
country.”
OECD 2012, Better skills, better jobs, better lives: a strategic approach to skills policies, OECD Publishing, viewed 14
July 2012, http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/9789264177338-en

Establish lifelong and
life-wide learning as the
central paradigm for the
future. (Redecker et al, 2011, p.10).
Redecker C, Leis M, Leendertse M, Punie Y, Gijsbers G, Kirschner P, Stoyanov S & Hoogerveld B 2011, The future of
learning: preparing for change, Institute for Prospective Technological Studies, JRC European Commission.

School of Information Studies Faculty of EducationSchool of Information Studies Faculty of Education
The evidence is that technologies and
social media platforms are driving an
unprecedented re-organisation of the
learning environment.!
cc licensed ( BY NC ) flickr photo by Ward.: http://flickr.com/photos/wards/521247814/

Connected learning is a real-world
activity. It’s social. It’s active. It’s
networked. It’s personal. It’s effective. !
creative commons licensed (BY) flickr photo by miss karen: http://flickr.com/photos/misbehave/2352753067!

The urgent dimensions of learning!
“The mechanisms for engaging with information and processes of learning in
the acquisition of new knowledge has become a deeper process of individual
and collaborative learning activities, problem solving and artefact
development, occurring through an integration of face-to-face and online
interactions within a community, involving absorption, integration and
systemisation of the information received by the receiver in their own pre-
existing cognitive structure, which are the result of personal experience, and
earlier knowledge transactions”.
Trentin, G., (2011). Technology and knowledge flows : the power of networks. Chandos Pub, Oxford.

The urgent dimensions of learning!
find, fold, bend, shape, make… !

Learning today requires that education is
built on reading and information seeking
in a connected world....

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http://fold.it/portal/!
Unlock the structure of an AIDS-
related enzyme in 3 weeks!!

3D pen prints live cells on a damaged bone
Neurosurgoens implant 3D printed skull
3D Digital Fabrication!
Mobility components printed for size

cc licensed ( BY NC SD ) flickr photo by Pete Prodoehl: http://flickr.com/photos/raster/6128718951/
Makerspace in your school!"
Think smarter. Be new. !
Be creative!
Untethered = Empowered!

Our students, voracious social media users, may be
hiding some of their story, faking perfection through their
perfect-only final product. But, there is no “faking out”
innovative educators – their teachers. Teachers know that
the process of getting there is less than a perfect road
and where the learning happens. The imperfect road
becomes the strength of the lesson. !
Edudemic http://www.edudemic.com/hiding-in-plain-sight/!

Measure a
21st century
leader? !

c. 1970

Pocket-sized moleskin notebook
Evernote
everywhere!
c. 2014
http://thenextweb.com/apps/2014/07/29/evernote-integrates-fastpencil-can-publish-notes-book/ !
Evernote integrates with
FastPencil so you can
publish your notes as a
book!!

• Peer critiquing!
• User-generated content!
• Collective aggregation!
• Community formation!
• Digital personas!
• Digital Citizenship!
Come to…!
adding interactivity and connectivity to everyday things!

Our digital information ecology is a remix of
different forms of technology, devices, data
repositories, information retrieval,
information sharing, networks and
communication. New technological tools are
expanding — and fundamentally altering —
the ways we can interact with each other
and the world. !

Knowledge as a Thing and
a Flow!
read in all contexts and differentiate !
in order to !
!
understand !
creative commons licensed (BY-NC) flickr photo by hjl: http://flickr.com/photos/hjl/9609706361!

Microlearning: hungry for knowledge nuggets!
Microlearning ticks all the teaching boxes: bite-sized
nuggets of content are easy to digest, understand
and remember. Often mobile-friendly, visual and
sharable, the short bursts of information leave you
sufficiently satisfied and likely to come back for more.!
At the BI Norwegian School of Business, through a number of pilot programmes, they
have been adapting fragmented content to mobile devices, finding that the right mix of
mobile learning makes courses more engaging and also helps part-time students stay up-
to-date.!
http://www.online-educa.com/OEB_Newsportal/microlearning-hungry-for-knowledge-nuggets/ !

Project Tomorrow
Project Tomorrow: Empowering opportunities
http://tomorrow.org/speakup/pdfs/SU12-Students.pdf

2014 K-12 Horizon Project"
Significant challenges in technology adoption:!
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Creating authentic learning opportunities!
Integrating personalised learning!
Complex thinking and communication!
Safety of student data!
Competition from new models of education!
Keeping formal education relevant!
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http://cdn.nmc.org/media/2014-nmc-horizon-report-k12-EN.pdf !
Wicked challenge - !
keep formal education relevant!!

Leadership in a !
connected age !

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You could try .....!
http://flip.it/vHvLR !

You could try .....!
http://youtu.be/eF51AOoFQLE !

What’s the story
with the yellow
blotch?!
http://searchresearch1.blogspot.com.au/2013/01/wednesday-search-challenge-11613-whats.html!
SearchReSearch blog
http://searchresearch1.blogspot.com.au/!
You could try .....!
Hint - this is Stickman!!

http://www.slj.com/2014/09/opinion/consider-the-source/let-pixar-turn-your-library-into-a-laboratory-
consider-the-source/#_ !
What if all Pixar
Movies were part
of the same
timeline?
Or you could try .....!
http://www.pixartheory.com/!
The step-by-step building of the Pixar
map is basically show-how-much-you-
know fun, the overall effort is perfect
training in the research process.!

Collection: INF530 Concept & Prac​tices in a Digital Age!
http://amzn.com/w/37FSRQBVI5C5W !
You could try .....!

The way you use a search engine, stream
video from your phone, update your
Facebook status, edit a wikipedia page,
matters to you, to me, and to everyone,
because the way people use a new
medium in its early years can influence
the way that medium is used and misused
for centuries to come.!

cc licensed flickr photo by assbach: http://flickr.com/photos/assbach/253218488/
Gather
Seek
Follow
Explore
Cultivating scholarly inquisitive mindsets!

More content, streams of data,
topic structures, (theoretically)
better quality - all of these in
online environments
require an equivalent shift in our
online capabilities.

.... because your knowledge and my knowledge,
based on what search results we are served, may be
very different from each other.
Siva
Vaidhyanathan
in
The
Googlization
of
Everything,
Google creates the illusion of accessibility
creative commons licensed (BY-NC-SA) flickr photo by ptrlx: http://flickr.com/photos/ptrlx/6593024909!

https://maps.google.com/locationhistory/b/0 !
Your data points if you are logged in!!

http://youtu.be/b8CZmB4qLvY !

It is no longer far-fetched to envision a world
where all objects and devices are connected to
act in concert. NMC Horizon Report: 2014 K-12 Edition!
creative commons licensed (BY-NC-SA) flickr photo by the waving cat: http://flickr.com/photos/thewavingcat/9510533164!

The world's first microchip, handmade in 1958 by Jack Kilby.
This piece of history won Kilby a Nobel Prize and represents
one of the first steps leading to the modern computing era. !
http://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/worlds-first-microchip-fails-sell-auction-n136996 !
Come from…!

The ‘back-story’ of the digital revolution –
digitisation for information storage, retrieval,
accessibility, and usage that has changed the
face of the digital information ecology in the
current era.
creative commons licensed (BY-NC-SA) flickr photo by Tal Bright: http://flickr.com/photos/bright/17378095!

Lost collection of Andy Warhol art
recovered from floppy disks!
http://mashable.com/2014/04/24/warhol-art-recovered-amiga-disks/!
Data longevity!

Doomsday Reloaded"
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/domesday/story!
In 1986, 900 years after William the Conqueror’s original Domesday Book, the BBC published
the Domesday Project. The project was probably the most ambitious attempt ever to capture
the essence of life in the United Kingdom. Over a million people contributed to this digital
snapshot of the country. !

Big Shift in 25 years!
creative commons licensed (BY-NC-ND) flickr photo by 144ben: http://flickr.com/photos/benchpics/7190477294!

creative commons licensed (BY-SA) flickr photo by Ian Muttoo: http://flickr.com/photos/imuttoo/2631466945"
The Web is not the Internet!

powerful search | dynamic table of contents | easier to navigate
http://www.wikiwand.com/!

It is about common formats and
metadata which allow for integration
and combination of data drawn from
diverse sources. Think APIs!!

Google Knowledge Graph!
When you search, you’re not just looking for a webpage."
You’re looking to get answers, understand or explore. "

Semantic Writing
Zemanta and Open Calais!

Gapminder fact-based world view"
http://www.gapminder.org/for-teachers/!

http://www.google.org/flutrends/au/#AU!
Google Flu Trends !

Semantic Search Engines!

http://www.google.com/publicdata!
Google Public Data Explorer!

http://trove.nla.gov.au/!

Europeana enables people to explore the
digital resources of Europe's museums, libraries,
archives and audio-visual collections.
http://www.europeana.eu/portal/index.html
Linked Open Data on the Web. The site currently contains
metadata on 3.5 million texts, images, videos and sounds.

MUCH !
Much more than just BIG DATA
and cloud storage!!

virtual and physical spaces!
learning approaches!
knowledge creation processes!

.... what is your discovery interface?
"
Context aware:!
• Points on the curriculum and the interest continuum!
Access aware:!
• Interfaces to support searching and discovery!
Search aware:!
• Natural, predictive, responsive!
Results aware:!
• Multimodal, multi-depository, relevant, filtered!
How do you stack up?
Your leadership context! !

.... strategic directions for knowledge interactions
New skills
New knowledge
New metadata
New open access
New global connections
New learning community
Your leadership context! !

At last we are connected together in
leading and learning!

…if we draw on expertise for ways of
supporting learning in the newly emerging
Web 3.0 information ecology!

http://youtu.be/bAOWpdQeyBQ !

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