Learning in Networks of Knowledge

Learning in Networks
of Knowledge
Judy O’Connell

State Library of NSW April 18, 2013

Today’s novelty is
tomorrow’s norm

Make a wish!

Price of 1 gigabyte of storage

1981 $300K 1997 $100
1987 $50K 2000 $10
1990 $10K 2004 $1
1994 $1K 2012 $0.10

Technology is almost everywhere!

http://youtu.be/E2u6P88C0fQ

We live in a connected
world. Nearly two
billion people connect
to the internet, share
information and
communicate over
blogs, Wikis, social
networks and a host of
other media.

Anything imaginable is
capable of being
connected to the
network, become
intelligent offering
almost endless
possibilities.

We already have
internet devices
attached to our ears,
and some even have
embedded devices
connected to their
doctors.

“Internet of Things”

2020
fifty billion devices connected to the
internet.

people and objects able to
connect to the Internet at anytime
from anywhere.

Ubiquitous connectivity

Flattening Classrooms, Engaging Minds: Move to Global Collaboration One Step at a Time

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Ubiquitous connectivity

More content and streams of
data - all of these changes into
online environments require an
equivalent shift in our
understandings of online needs
and capabilities.

How does technology impact the way students
need to learn?
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Interfaces for discovery
What do we expect of
technology?
How can we create better
experiences?

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

How do we help them.....?

1. Find the right thing
2. Get the best summary
3. Go broader and deeper

Steve G. Steinberg
Febuary 1997

LIFESTREAMS
Today, our view of cyberspace is shaped by a 20-
year-old metaphor in which ﬁles are documents,
documents are organized into folders, and all are
littered around the ﬂatland known as the desktop.
Lifestreams takes a completely different approach:
instead of organizing by space, it organizes by
time. It is a diary rather than a desktop.
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/5.02/fflifestreams.html?pg=1&topic=&topic_set=

David Gelernter
February 2013

The End of the Web, Search, and
Computer as We Know It

http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/02/the-end-of-the-web-computers-and-search-as-we-know-it/

David Gelernter
February 2013

This LIFESTREAM — a
heterogeneous, content-searchable,
real-time messaging stream — arrived
in the form of blog posts and RSS
feeds, Twitter and other chatstreams,
and Facebook walls and timelines.

David Gelernter
February 2013

Today, the most important function of
the internet is to deliver the latest
information, to tell us what’s happening
right now. Whether tweet or timeline,
all are time-ordered streams designed
to tell you what’s new.

The answer is....

We must be

We must understand
our information
and knowledge
environments

Time-to-Adoption Horizon: One Year or Less
•Cloud Computing
•Mobile Learning
Time-to-Adoption Horizon: Two to Three Years
•Learning Analytics
•Open Content
Time-to-Adoption Horizon: Four to Five Years
•3D Printing
•Virtual and Remote Laboratories

Horizon Report 2013

So many examples of
big data pools

Google has been ahead of public health authorities in
monitoring ﬂu outbreaks by compiling public searches for
ﬂu-related information by geography.

Infographics

http://awesome.good.is/transparency/web/1108/deadliest-pandemics/ﬂash.html

Google Crisis maps provides comprehensive information
with a range of information ﬁlters and image resources.
http://google.org/crisismap/2012-sandy

It’s not about devices, it’s
about organising and
thinking with
technology!

New literacies

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Takes effort!

Information
Search strategies
Social strategies
Participatory culture
Curation

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The Ethnographic Research in Illinois Academic
Libraries (ERIAL) Project, a two-year study of the student
research process involving five US universities, included
extensive interviews with students, librarians and other
academics in an effort to better understand 21st
century student research habits.

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“The students surveyed often looked
in journals or databases unsuited to
their ﬁeld of study and displayed a
poor understanding of how to reﬁne
search results”.

“While the interface of Google and other similar search
engines might be more intuitive, what’s going on behind
the scenes isn’t intuitive at all, and very few students had a
clear conception of how search engines work. This lack of
understanding compounds the problem of building an
effective search strategy.”

What’s the story with the
yellow blotch?
SearchReSearch blog

http://searchresearch1.blogspot.com.au/2013/01/wednesday-search-challenge-11613-whats.html

Search can be fast without
necessarily being intelligent.

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When a technology focus subverts
students’ conversation and
development of critical thinking skills (and
their ability to evaluate and analyse the
information at hand), the mental
processes that change knowledge from
information to concept are not learned.

Bomar, S. (2010). A School-Wide Instructional Framework for Evaluating Sources. Knowledge Quest, 38(3),

72-75.

By demonstrating how to connect a
database information repository (such
as EBSCO, Gale, or JStor) or a local
library service with Google Scholar, we
are helping students broaden the
scope of their information seeking,
while at the same time refining the
quality of the information response.

Database tutorials
Advanced search training

Learn about the latest
additions to search so as
to get the most out of
Google.
http://www.google.com/insidesearch/features/

Because Google is where
everyone starts!

Once foundational
practices are in place,
add to the toolkit and
build into critical
learning experiences.

Google alerts too!
http://www.google.com/insidesearch/searcheducation/
index.html

Wolfram|Alpha is a free online computational
knowledge engine that generates answers to
questions in real time by doing computations on its
own vast internal knowledge base.

http://www.wolframalpha.com/educators/

Information retrieval and natural
language processing

http://healthmash.com/

Highly ﬂexible search and
collection strategies

Collaborative forms of
information organization
and dissemination

Referencing and citation
practices

Open Source; creative
commons; images and
attribution etc

Zotero http://www.zotero.org/

Top 100 tools for learning
http://c4lpt.co.uk/top100tools/

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Learn to work strategically

Knowledge 2.0

http://bit.ly/knowledge2
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The future of search made simple

http://youtu.be/LCa2FnclpEg

Searcher Behaviour - new study
highlights that:

•40% of searching activity is shopping
•65% don't click on ads (or say they don't)
•50%ads from regular searchdifferentiate
the
who click on ads can't
results

Search Engine Showdown http://searchengineshowdown.com/2013/04/searcher-behavior/

Learning in Networks
of Knowledge

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Deciphering student search
behaviour
OCLC research:
learning motivations and
information-seeking
behaviours across
education stages

White, D.S., and Connaway, L.S. 2011. Visitors and Residents: What Motivates Engagement with the Digital
Information Environment.
www.oclc.org/research/activities/vandr

Deciphering student search behaviour

Information-seeking behaviours are converging
across personal and institutional spheres, as a
combined effect of the social web, cloud-based
applications and the multi-tab environment.
He observes: ‘A lot of the students we interviewed
do their research on Wikipedia or syllabus-based
websites and have an adjacent tab open on
Facebook. They ﬂit between the two, occupying
personal and institutional spaces simultaneously,
and gather information from outside the institutional
context as well as within it.’

Characteristics of a successful student
Create a community
Collaborate with peers
Diligent with deadlines
Look for and leverage tools
Tools to optimize learning
Critical thinking via
knowledge networks

Periodic Table of QR codes

http://www.periodicvideos.com/

The Future Isn't About Mobile; It's About Mobility

https://www.facebook.com/OztlNet

[learning] self

Personal web tools – used for
tracking our life and powering
our information organisation e.g.
photos to Facebook, pictures to
Flickr, photos to Twitter.

Social recommendation services
- Amazon, Book Depository

[learning] self

Personal learning environment –
relying on the people we connect
with through social networks and
collaborative tools e.g. Twitter,
Yammer.

Personal learning network – knowing
where or to whom to connect and
find professional content.

[learning] self

Cloud computing - utilising open access
between sources and devices e.g. Edmodo,
Evernote, Diigo.

Mixed reality – adopting e-devices and
augmented reality e.g. ebooks, QRcodes,
Layar browser.

Content curation - utilising web services to
filter and disseminate resources, news, and
knowledge prompts.

[information] self

Microblogging
Social bookmarking and tagging
Collaborative writing
Information management - e.g. Zotero, Endnote, Easybib
Information capture on multiple devices - e.g. Evernote
Library resources, databases all used for information
collection, RSS topic and journal alerts
Aggregators and start pages
Online storage for access across multiple platforms

[information] self

Evernote http://evernote.com/

Digging into digital research
http://heyjude.wordpress.com/2011/05/06/digging-into-
research/

Lucacept – Jenny Luca– Evernote for
students
http://jennyluca.com/2011/06/26/explaining-evernote/

[team] self

http://hojoki.com

Learning in
Networks of [team]
Knowledge [social]
[learning]
[information]

http://www.jarche.com/2013/01/pkm-in-2013/

h"p://23mobilethings.net/wpress/

Modelling
exemplary use of
social media,
search engines,
and collaborative
research strategies.

Sharing resources
with each other https://sites.google.com/site/betchaboysummit/home

Sharing resources
http://sdst.libguides.com/index.php
with each other

Anything from
Angry Birds
to
Building a
PLN

Sharing resources http://www.livebinders.com/play/play_or_edit?id=142880
with each other http://www.livebinders.com/play/play_or_edit?id=288178

Topics for discussion
Search strategies
Evaluation strategies
Critical thinking and problem solving
Networked conversation &
collaboration
Cloud computing environments
Ethical use and production of
information
Information curation of personal &
distributed knowledge.

Today’s novelty
IS today’s norm

Don’t wish -
DO!

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