Game-based learning and academic integrityJudy O'Connell
Through a new subject added to anacademic program which commenced in 2014 at Charles Sturt University, further strategies have been explored to support subject engagement and assessment design. The contribution of global connectedness for embedding academic integrity through social scholarship was an essential feature of the curriculum and learning experience.
Rethinking Learning in the Age of Digital FluencyJudy O'Connell
Digital connectivity is a transformative phenomenon of the 21st century. While many have debated its impact on society, educators have been quick to mandate technology in school development - often without analysing the digital fluency of those involved, and the actual impact on learning. Is being digitally tethered creating a new learning nexus for those involved?
Literature in digital environments: Changes and emerging trends in Australian...Judy O'Connell
Igniting a passion for reading and research is core business for school libraries, inevitably placing the library at the centre of the 21st century reading and learning experience. It is in this context that digital literature creates some challenging questions for teachers and librarians in schools, while the emergence of digital technology and/or device options also offers a great many opportunities. Collection development in school libraries encompasses an understanding of the need to contextualise these e-literature needs within the learning and teaching experiences in the school. The Australian Library and Information Association’s 2013 statement Future of collections 50:50 predicted that library print and ebook collections in libraries would establish a 50:50 equilibrium by 2020 and that this balance would be maintained for the foreseeable future. This statement from the Australian professional body raised the need to know more about e-collections in school libraries. For teacher librarians in Australian schools, the nature of online collections, and the integration of ebooks into the evolving reading culture is influenced by the range and diversity of texts, interfaces, devices, and experiences available to complement existing print and media collections or services. Management and budget constraints also influence e-collections. By undertaking a review of the literature, a discussion of the education context, and a critical analysis of the trends evidenced by national survey data, this paper presents an overview of the changes and emerging trends in digital literature and ebook collections in school library services in Australia today.
How will education libraries best serve their communities in 2015?
Why do we need to organise information more effectively? How do we incorporate the evolving semantic web environments? In a world of API and big data, libraries (and in particular school libraries) are faced with a significant ‘conceptual’ challenge. The new RDA cataloguing standard will substantively influence and then change information organization, focusing on users, access and interoperability. Search interfaces will be the key. We’re not dealing with records anymore. We are working with interrelated nodes of data. Are you prepared?
Game-based learning and academic integrityJudy O'Connell
Through a new subject added to anacademic program which commenced in 2014 at Charles Sturt University, further strategies have been explored to support subject engagement and assessment design. The contribution of global connectedness for embedding academic integrity through social scholarship was an essential feature of the curriculum and learning experience.
Rethinking Learning in the Age of Digital FluencyJudy O'Connell
Digital connectivity is a transformative phenomenon of the 21st century. While many have debated its impact on society, educators have been quick to mandate technology in school development - often without analysing the digital fluency of those involved, and the actual impact on learning. Is being digitally tethered creating a new learning nexus for those involved?
Literature in digital environments: Changes and emerging trends in Australian...Judy O'Connell
Igniting a passion for reading and research is core business for school libraries, inevitably placing the library at the centre of the 21st century reading and learning experience. It is in this context that digital literature creates some challenging questions for teachers and librarians in schools, while the emergence of digital technology and/or device options also offers a great many opportunities. Collection development in school libraries encompasses an understanding of the need to contextualise these e-literature needs within the learning and teaching experiences in the school. The Australian Library and Information Association’s 2013 statement Future of collections 50:50 predicted that library print and ebook collections in libraries would establish a 50:50 equilibrium by 2020 and that this balance would be maintained for the foreseeable future. This statement from the Australian professional body raised the need to know more about e-collections in school libraries. For teacher librarians in Australian schools, the nature of online collections, and the integration of ebooks into the evolving reading culture is influenced by the range and diversity of texts, interfaces, devices, and experiences available to complement existing print and media collections or services. Management and budget constraints also influence e-collections. By undertaking a review of the literature, a discussion of the education context, and a critical analysis of the trends evidenced by national survey data, this paper presents an overview of the changes and emerging trends in digital literature and ebook collections in school library services in Australia today.
How will education libraries best serve their communities in 2015?
Why do we need to organise information more effectively? How do we incorporate the evolving semantic web environments? In a world of API and big data, libraries (and in particular school libraries) are faced with a significant ‘conceptual’ challenge. The new RDA cataloguing standard will substantively influence and then change information organization, focusing on users, access and interoperability. Search interfaces will be the key. We’re not dealing with records anymore. We are working with interrelated nodes of data. Are you prepared?
Library 2.014 Leadership in a Connected AgeJudy O'Connell
Teacher librarians and school libraries play a vital role in their school communities by meeting the change, challenge and productive chaos of the Web front on!
Today’s youth lead online lifestyles. They interact in online communities, build relationships, express themselves, stay informed, and find answers to life’s questions all online. Notebook PCs, smartphones, and wireless networks provide access to social networks anywhere, anytime. This generation, the iGeneration, is accustomed to on-demand, individualized service, and is becoming increasingly intolerant of traditional teaching methods where lectures and textbooks assume that “one size fits all” and that learning takes place through individual effort in a classroom. As teachers struggle to satisfy tech-savvy students, we also face pressure to serve increasing numbers of students with fewer resources. Some schools are finding success in dealing with these issues through innovative uses of technologies. Moving curricula online, adopting online pedagogies that emphasize exploration and collaboration, designing engaging activities such as “serious games,” and implementing online learning communities are key to connecting with the iGeneration. This presentation looks at current research in innovative online education technologies, along with the presenter’s own work in the area.
Makerspaces: a great opportunity to enhance academic libraries, Stellenbosch...Fers
Presentation at Stellenbosch University 14th Annual Library Symposium
Stellenbosch Institute for Advance Studies (STIAS)
November 3, 2016 – November 4, 2016
http://conferences.sun.ac.za/index.php/sulis_symp14/SUALS14
Shaping the academic library of the future: adapt, empower, partner, engage
The tradition of the Stellenbosch University Annual Library Symposium of being a platform for discussing new library and information services and developments will continue at the 14th Annual Library Symposium in November 2016. The discussion will be turned to the shaping of the academic library of the future. Emphasis will be placed on the importance of adapting to users’ needs, adapting to new roles as librarians, adapting as a library, empowerment of staff and clients and the importance of partnerships and engagement.
The theme is partly based on the recent OCLC report, Shaping the Library to the life of the user: adapting, empowering, partnering, engaging. In this report it becomes clear that “research and learning needs are changing. Higher education is reconfiguring. As a result of these massive changes, the library must pivot and adapt”. The following core themes are mentioned in this report: to empower users, to empower the library, form partnerships and to engage the campus community. The report advises libraries to be able to “move from offering a fixed set of services to a ‘constant beta’ mode of service evolution” .
Three different sessions will focus on the following themes, all related to the shaping of the academic library of the future:
Digital innovation: Topics of this session may include Augmented Reality, Artificial Intelligence, Research Data Management, Big Data, E-learning, Digital Humanities, Next Generation Systems.
Collaboration / Partnerships : Partnerships with OCLC, SANLIC and other consortia as well as other collaboration possibilities will be discussed.
The user experience: Academic staff, researchers and students of local universities will share their expectations as users of academic libraries.
Presentation by Esther Tyson
principal of a secondary school in Jamaica for the panel presentation/discussion on the conference subtheme of collaboration and support
Building a Vibrant Future for School Librarians through Online Conversations ...Judy O'Connell
Technology and social media platforms are driving an unprecedented reorganization of the learning environment in and beyond schools around the world. Technology provides us leadership challenges and at the same time offers opportunities for communication and learning through technology channels to support professional development. School librarians and teacher librarians are often working as the sole information practitioner in their school, and need to stay in touch with others beyond their own school to develop their personal professional capacity to lead within their school. The Australian Teacher Librarian Network aims to make a difference, and supports school library staff in Australia and around the world to build professional networks and personal learning connections, offering an open and free exchange of ideas, strategies and resources to build collegiality. This ongoing professional conversation through online and social media channels is an important way to connect, communicate and collaborate in building a vibrant future for school librarians.
Standing Against the Online White Nationalist Movementkbesnoy
Online White Nationalism poses a threat to our democracy. This article offers instructional resources teachers can use to empower their students to stand against the white nationalist movement.
Online and on track: delivering solutions for public library clients now an...PublicLibraryServices
Presented at the LG Web Network We Believe in Community Conference Sydney, 18-19 August, 2011
Opportunities and challenges that digital technology presents for local government and the future of public libraries.
Library 2.014 Leadership in a Connected AgeJudy O'Connell
Teacher librarians and school libraries play a vital role in their school communities by meeting the change, challenge and productive chaos of the Web front on!
Today’s youth lead online lifestyles. They interact in online communities, build relationships, express themselves, stay informed, and find answers to life’s questions all online. Notebook PCs, smartphones, and wireless networks provide access to social networks anywhere, anytime. This generation, the iGeneration, is accustomed to on-demand, individualized service, and is becoming increasingly intolerant of traditional teaching methods where lectures and textbooks assume that “one size fits all” and that learning takes place through individual effort in a classroom. As teachers struggle to satisfy tech-savvy students, we also face pressure to serve increasing numbers of students with fewer resources. Some schools are finding success in dealing with these issues through innovative uses of technologies. Moving curricula online, adopting online pedagogies that emphasize exploration and collaboration, designing engaging activities such as “serious games,” and implementing online learning communities are key to connecting with the iGeneration. This presentation looks at current research in innovative online education technologies, along with the presenter’s own work in the area.
Makerspaces: a great opportunity to enhance academic libraries, Stellenbosch...Fers
Presentation at Stellenbosch University 14th Annual Library Symposium
Stellenbosch Institute for Advance Studies (STIAS)
November 3, 2016 – November 4, 2016
http://conferences.sun.ac.za/index.php/sulis_symp14/SUALS14
Shaping the academic library of the future: adapt, empower, partner, engage
The tradition of the Stellenbosch University Annual Library Symposium of being a platform for discussing new library and information services and developments will continue at the 14th Annual Library Symposium in November 2016. The discussion will be turned to the shaping of the academic library of the future. Emphasis will be placed on the importance of adapting to users’ needs, adapting to new roles as librarians, adapting as a library, empowerment of staff and clients and the importance of partnerships and engagement.
The theme is partly based on the recent OCLC report, Shaping the Library to the life of the user: adapting, empowering, partnering, engaging. In this report it becomes clear that “research and learning needs are changing. Higher education is reconfiguring. As a result of these massive changes, the library must pivot and adapt”. The following core themes are mentioned in this report: to empower users, to empower the library, form partnerships and to engage the campus community. The report advises libraries to be able to “move from offering a fixed set of services to a ‘constant beta’ mode of service evolution” .
Three different sessions will focus on the following themes, all related to the shaping of the academic library of the future:
Digital innovation: Topics of this session may include Augmented Reality, Artificial Intelligence, Research Data Management, Big Data, E-learning, Digital Humanities, Next Generation Systems.
Collaboration / Partnerships : Partnerships with OCLC, SANLIC and other consortia as well as other collaboration possibilities will be discussed.
The user experience: Academic staff, researchers and students of local universities will share their expectations as users of academic libraries.
Presentation by Esther Tyson
principal of a secondary school in Jamaica for the panel presentation/discussion on the conference subtheme of collaboration and support
Building a Vibrant Future for School Librarians through Online Conversations ...Judy O'Connell
Technology and social media platforms are driving an unprecedented reorganization of the learning environment in and beyond schools around the world. Technology provides us leadership challenges and at the same time offers opportunities for communication and learning through technology channels to support professional development. School librarians and teacher librarians are often working as the sole information practitioner in their school, and need to stay in touch with others beyond their own school to develop their personal professional capacity to lead within their school. The Australian Teacher Librarian Network aims to make a difference, and supports school library staff in Australia and around the world to build professional networks and personal learning connections, offering an open and free exchange of ideas, strategies and resources to build collegiality. This ongoing professional conversation through online and social media channels is an important way to connect, communicate and collaborate in building a vibrant future for school librarians.
Standing Against the Online White Nationalist Movementkbesnoy
Online White Nationalism poses a threat to our democracy. This article offers instructional resources teachers can use to empower their students to stand against the white nationalist movement.
Online and on track: delivering solutions for public library clients now an...PublicLibraryServices
Presented at the LG Web Network We Believe in Community Conference Sydney, 18-19 August, 2011
Opportunities and challenges that digital technology presents for local government and the future of public libraries.
Keynote presentation for Design for Collaborative Learning: Current Trends and Pedagogy” subtitled “Making Space for Change” at the B.C. CEFPI Annual Conference of school planners and architects. I was asked to provide a birds-eye view of the new B.C. Ministry of Education curriculum, talk about it in the context of collaboration and speak to the implications for the design and use of physical space.
learning in a networked world: the role of social media and augmented learning.
Keynote presentation to the New Educator Program Hedley Beare Centre for Teaching and Learning 23-25 August 2011
Keynote presentation at Montana Library Association meeting, Helena, 7 February. It looks at public and academic library directions in a network environment.
Presentation for Librarian/Archivists/Technology Conference held at the Academy in St. Charles on April 17, 2010 for the Network of Sacred Heart Schools.
Additional challenges added by the group (slide 5):
*Collaboration
*Communication
*Speed of Change
*Time
*Technology
*Misunderstood
*Money
*Skill Sets
*Obsolescence
4. Involves a cross-section of community stakeholders
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6. Web Space/ Virtual Space Collaboration Physical Space Student Resources Information Literacy Skills & Management Technology Tools Equity & Access Creativity & Communication Digital & Global Citizenship Assessment & Integration Community Reading / Literacy The Pocatello Sketch
7. Web Space/ Virtual Space Collaboration Physical Space Student Resources Information Literacy Skills & Management Technology Tools Equity & Access Creativity & Communication Digital & Global Citizenship Assessment & Integration Community Reading / Literacy The Pocatello Sketch
17. They did care, and here’s why … Achievement Gap Access to the Information Age Equity Library Programs as Basic Education 21st Century Skills I Libraries ! Workforce Readiness Literacy Global Preparedness Democracy
18. Coalition Vision Washington Coalition for School Libraries and Information Technology (WCS-Lit) Full-time certified teacher-librarian in every school Fully-funded library materials and technology resources The Washington Coalition for School Libraries and Information Technology (WCSLit) envisions a future where every public school or small district in Washington state is served by a full-time, certified teacher-librarian who manages a fully-funded library and technology resource collection. The coalition looks to a future where students from across the state have the same access to technology, the same chance for literacy, and the same opportunity to receive a world-class education. It is our hope that Washington state standards for library and information technology education become the benchmark for library and information technology instruction across the nation. Equitable access to technology, literacy, and opportunity WA State LIT education standards become a benchmark
21. Coalition Success ✓ $4 MM emergency bridge funding First ever line-item for school library programs ✓ Policy recommendations to codify teacher-librarians and library programs as part of Washington’s Basic Education Act.
40. Cutting Edge College Majors Microtechnology Nanotechnology Visual Representation of Complex Data Human-Computer Interaction Green Majors Forensic sciences Service science Health Infomatics carbon nanotubes
73. Information Monarchy Information Democracy INFORMATION ANARCHY "I think we're all walking around in a big Saharan data sandstorm," A.J. Jacobs, author of The Know-It-All
74. b. 2006 b. 2003 b. 2006 b. 2007 b. 2007 b. 2009
75. Library + Laboratory = Libratory “A place to make stuff, do stuff, sharestuff, not just get stuff.” Joyce Valenza
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77. The Alchemy of Knowledge initiative + inquisitiveness + resources = knowledge
78. Periodic Table of 21st Century Resources Website / Digital Portal Global learning Community Space Global citizenship A Place of Their Own Research Tools Reading Collaboration Labs organizational tools Foreign language learning Digital content production Information Space Creation Communication Tools (2.0) Financial literacy DATA Digital citizenship Composition Games Corner Avatar Studio Storytelling Analytics
90. Moving Toward Defining the Pocatello Sketch Complete the risk assessment. Add additional questions on effective practices. Using the risk assessment and ideas from earlier workshop exercises, create the Pocatello Sketch’s Effective Practices checklist (either on paper or on the wiki). Please transfer your work to the wiki.
Editor's Notes
http://www.channel4.com/4homes/design-style/design-features/a-profile-of-philippe-starck-08-06-10_p_1.htmlIntroduce yourselfWhat’s the biggest concern or obstacle to shaping 21st century learners?