The following presentation was prepared for the McMaster Student Leadership Conference in 2014, The following description is from the Conference program; "Bringing the concept of walking libraries to student leaders at McMaster will enhance participants’ ability to inspire those they interact with and will encourage a culture of limitless learning among student leaders in the McMaster community. You will have the opportunity to reflect on your skills and abilities and to engage in peer-to-peer learning. By having an opportunity to expand your student leader network, you will be able to promote further growth and development as an individual."

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Residence/Community Learning
- Share our learning stories in residence
- What have we learned in residence?

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Show video of baby learning how to walk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qENMEyeP_No
Hole in the wall experiment (sugata Mitra) 9:08-12:30min
http://www.ted.com/talks/sugata_mitra_shows_how_kids_teach_themselves.html
Learning is our default setting from birth

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Post It activity #1
Write down on small pieces of paper something each person wants to learn and ask audience
to share

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Remember when we as kids used to try and answer every question we could. When learning
was "cool"

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How did we lost that spirit of learning?
What happened between us being the kid with the hand up to now?
Why don't we learn and take the opportunity to get better as a daily habit?
I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught. -Winston Churchill

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What is stopping us?
Discussion
Is it fear?
complacency?
social norms?
Discussion

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The biggest opportunity to learn is chance, if you walk into a room of people playing card
game you don’t know and you leave the room because of it instead of sitting down and
asking how the game goes then you have wasted an opportunity to learn. Same with
anything else, we encounter different opportunities each day to learn something new, we just
need to get better at taking advantage of that.
People are often worried about looking stupid if they don’t know something so that they mask
and pretend like they do, which in essence is the real act of stupidity because they wasted
the opportunity to ask questions and learn.

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We are all walking libraries. It is not only important to ask what else we want to add to our
library (when it comes to learning), but as important to recognize what we already have in it.
The other side of this story is the understanding that we all have something to contribute to
someone else's learning.
We need to recognize that we all have a vast experience of knowledge, skills and abilities
that no matter how much we take for granted, others wish they had.

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What is in your library?
What can you do? talk about? show?
Write down thing that you are able to teach or share with others?

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"A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle" - James Keller

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What now moment...
Our time in the student community is limited. How do we make the most of it and apply this
attitude to our own communities
- As leaders we need to show interest in each other
- being open about our own limitations
- rewarding effort and "culture of sharing"
- "organic learning"

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