Presentation given at the CILIP Schools Libraries Group Conference, Derby 2014. Blog post about the talk can be found here: http://www.nickdennis.com/blog/2014/04/17/enquiring-minds-the-road-to-learning/

1. Enquiring Minds
@nickdennis #SLG2014
Nick Dennis
Berkhamsted School
The Road To Learning

4. I’ve been to the
crossroads and I’ve seen
the devil there.
Sven Birkerts, The Gutenberg Elegies, 1996

5. Pessimism of the intellect,
optimism of the will

6. https://www.flickr.com/photos/aigle_dore/6225529941/in/photostream/

7. …we can travel
without maps
for a while
E P Thompson

8. Benefits
• High portability &
accessibility
• Disperses
information quickly
• Promotes
community
formation
• Promotes and
enhances dialogue

9. Threats
• Promotes distraction
• Reflects a loss of
control over
information
• Challenges traditional
systems and ideals
• Requires new systems
of organisation and
makes old systems
obsolete

10. The Printed Book

11. From Book to Text

14. The Codex

16. We may begin by asserting that, according to
our view, the first requirement of every
lexicon is that it should contain !
every word occurring in the literature of the
language it professes to illustrate

22. Schooling to
Education

24. Vittorina da Feltra
Games based learning

25. MOOCs

27. MOOCs

28. HPQ as a way
of stretching
students

32. From knowing to ‘Dare
to Know’

38. Dr Nick Dennis
!
Email:
ndennis@berkhamstedschool.org
Twitter:
@nickdennis
LinkedIn:
uk.linkedin.com/in/nickdennis
Blog:
http://www.nickdennis.com/blog

39. !
Notes for SLG download
p.7, 8 + 9 from Dr Bill Rankin, Director of Education, Apple
p.17 Expresso Book Machine video
p.23 from Mick Walters, Thinking Allowed
p.34 The Gorilla Experiment video
p.35 from Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore’s presentation at #TLAB14.