1. ACRL-ULS Internet Librarian wrap-up
October 26, 2011
Internet Librarian
2011 Learning, Innovation & Play
Rudy Leon
@rudibrarian
rudy.leon@gmail.com
2. • Change
• The future is constant learning
• Learning is play / play is learning
• Libraries have a role to play
• Cumulative learning, learning environments
• John Seely Brown http://t.co/8NJWdGr7
Overarching themes
3. • Learning is changing
• Learning how to learn is no longer enough
• Learning will now require dispositions which
cannot be taught, but can only be cultivated
• How to build spaces to cultivate dispositions?
• How to train librarians to mentor these
dispositions?
John Seely Brown
4. • Curiosity.
Amplify it.
• Questing.
Probe, seek, uncover
• Connectivity.
Learning with & from each other
JSB’s Dispositions
5. • Social view of learning:
I participate, Therefore I am
• Understanding is socially constructed
rise of constructivism?
• Dispositions toward forming affinity groups a key
to success
• Wikipedia/Brittanica: not accuracy, but new literacy,
new way of reading, new abilities required
The end of Cartesian
knowing & identity
6. • Homo Sapien (knower) Homo Faber (maker)
• Now also, maker of context (remix culture. New
context makes content new)
Homo sapien Homo faber
knowing making
• New Blended
Epistemology
Homo luden
Know, Make, Play
playing
7. From Training to Learning
Emily Clasper
• Training happens to you, learning is a verb
• Change
• Responsibility on learner
• Big concepts, transferable skills
• Social, personalized
• YouTube games
training & learning track
8. Making Learning Stick: A Dozen Tips
Polly Farrington
• What’s in it for them?
• Keep it fun
• Play! Encourage risk-taking, create a comfortable
environment for failure
• ‘Canoe time’/participation, mixed perspectives
• Ask for 1 take-away
training & learning track
9. From Training to Learning: Institutionalizing
Creativity and Innovation
Lisa Hardy and Nancy MacKenzie
• Librarian led, Library supported learning
• Allows librarians leadership opportunities, leverage
their own communities
• Library must develop structural models that support
innovation, bring into strategic plan, and measure
success
training & learning track
10. • Created Future Action think tank
• What is a Library Future? blog
• www.whatisalibraryfuture.tumblr.com
• Imagine the Future day, everyone
participating in different possibilities
Calgary Public Library
initiatives
11. Helene Blowers
• Developing a culture of innovation
How it effects our services
• Definitions of Innovation, of play
• Fuel creativity, curiosity, collaboration
• Idea exchange
Inno-play-ion
12. • JSB
• Live stream: http://bit.ly/Il2011JSB
• Slides: http://bit.ly/tKiWDP
• Emily Clasper’s slides: http://slidesha.re/IL2011EC
• Polly Alida Farrington’s Slides: http://bit.ly/IL2011PAF
• Lisa Hardy & Nancy MacKenzie’s slides
http://bit.ly/s7hIOL
Links to Internet Librarian
presentations/slides
13. Rudy Leon
Technology Training & Outreach Librarian
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
rudy.leon@gmail.com
@rudibrarian
http://deepening.wordpress.com
Questions?
Notes de l'éditeur
Innovation:Innovation is the amazing intersection between imagination and realityWatts Humphrey-innovation is the process of turning innovation into a tangible formBlowers- about mashing up the known and the unknownPlay:Play is the highest form of human researchFredrick Froebel 1782-1852----education researcher, father of kindergarten Innovation is creativity and risk takingPlay is creativity and active engagementMaker stuff: Published knowledge is known knowledgePublished knowledge is olpd knowledgeLibraries have a stronghold in the knownOur facilities give us the abilities to create the unknownThe evolution of idea exchanger:communication one wayConversation: two wayCollaboration:thinking, planning, making decisionsCocreation! Pay! Joint activity making, joint doing
