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Architects
of Learning
Peter Morville, Hyperlinked Library, 2013

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“Performances of Understanding”
Harvard Graduate School of Education

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“When I was playing baseball, most of
the time I wasn’t playing full-scale,
four bases, nine innings. I was playing
a perfectly suitable junior version of
the game...But when I was studying
those shards of math and history, I
wasn’t playing a junior version of
anything. It was like batting practice
without knowing the whole game.
Why would anyone want to do that?”

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The Architecture of a Class

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The MOOCs must first compete
with nonconsumption by
meeting demand outside the
schools (e.g., developing
countries, home-schooling) and
then within (e.g., letting students
take courses not offered by their
district).
Later, this self-paced, student-
centered model may gain
sufficient momentum to become
the dominant paradigm.

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Information Literacy
The ability the find,
evaluate, create, organize,
and use information from
myriad sources and media.

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“It is now my suggestion that many
people may not want information,
and that they will avoid using a
system precisely because it gives
them information…If you have
information, you must first read
it…You must then try to understand
it…Understanding the information
may show that your work was
wrong, or may show that your work
was needless…Thus not having and
not using information can often
lead to less trouble and pain than
having and using it.”
Calvin Mooers (1959)

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“We shape our buildings. Thereafter, they shape us.”
Winston Churchill (1943)

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Where architects use
forms and spaces to design
environments for inhabitation,
information architects use
nodes and links to create
environments for understanding.
Jorge Arango, Architectures

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Systems thinking looks at relationships
(rather than unrelated objects), connectedness,
process (rather than structure), the whole
(rather than just its parts), the patterns (rather
than the contents) of a system, and context.
Thinking systematically also requires
several shifts in perception, which lead in
turn to different ways to teach, and
different ways to organize society

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“Some interconnections in systems are
actual physical flows, such as the water in
the tree’s trunk or the students progressing
through a university.”
“Many interconnections are flows of
information – signals that go to decision
points or action points within a
system…information holds systems
together.”

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“Some habits have the power
to start a chain reaction.
Success doesn’t depend on
getting every single thing
right, but instead relies on
identifying a few key
priorities and fashioning
them into powerful levers.”

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“Willpower is the single most
important keystone habit for
individual success.”

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Polar bears are a keystone species in the Arctic ecosystem.

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The library is an act of
inspiration architecture
and a keystone of culture.

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IA Therefore I Am
Peter Morville
morville@semanticstudios.com
Understanding IA (Prezi)
http://is.gd/iaprezi
Blog
http://findability.org/
Twitter
@morville