Using Web 2.0 to help the Millennials

Peter Godwin

University of Bedfordshire

November 2008

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The death of librarianship?

Using Web 2.0 to help the Millennials

What are they going to need help with?

Is Information Literacy the answer? How can Web 2.0 help?

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Do you suffer from discomgoogolation?

What they need to become

Collaborators Synthesizers Adaptors

Yolanda by Micheo flickr

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Web generation

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All the literacies

Media literacy

IT literacy Information literacy Language literacy Visual literacy

E literacy Information fluency I-skills Information skills

Is Information Literacy our key to the future?

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What does it mean to be Information Literate?

Information Literacy

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What is Information Literacy?

“Information literacy is the adoption of appropriate information behaviour to identify through whatever channel or medium, information well fitted to information needs, leading to wise and ethical use of information in society.”

(Sheila Webber and Bill Johnston)

SCONUL Seven Pillars framework

SCONUL 7 Pillars

Recognising need for information Distinguishing sources and access Constructing search strategies Locating and accessing Comparing & evaluating Organising, applying and communicating Synthesising and adding new knowledge

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But is it too late for them?

The MEGO effect!

“Most instructors have stood in front of a class only to wonder if their only purpose on that day was to serve as a sedative for the majority of the class.”

Payne, et al (2006)

My eyes glaze over

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“It’s about student learning, stupid!”

Active Auditory

Constructivist Collaborative Kinesthetic

Visual

Contextual

Conversational Reflective

Web 2.0

RSS feeds Wikis Blogs Mashups Podcasting Tagging Vodcasting flickr del.icio.us FaceBook YouTube Instant messaging

Second Life

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Peter Godwin and Jo Parker, editors Information Literacy Meets Library 2.0

RSS

ConvenienceCollaborative

SharingKinesthetic

Blogs

ReflectiveCreative

DiscussiveEngaging

CollaborativeKinesthetic

Research 2.0: Research Blogs as Windows of OpportunityOlivia Reinauer, Social Sciences Librarian, University of RichmondTerry Dolson, Faculty Development Specialist, University of Richmond

CreativeCollaborative

SharingKinesthetic

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Wikis

Wiki-ing Your Way into Collaborative LearningMolly Beestrum, and Kenneth Orenic, Dominican University, Illinois

 Using Wikis in English 102

We designed some simple assignments to acclimatise students to wiki use.

Wikipedia

Creative

Shows a processCritical thinkingCollaborativeKinesthetic

Use of Wikipedia

Is it Encyclopaedia Idiotica?

Sarah who?

Flickr

VisualKinesthetic

CreativeCollaborative

Keywords

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VisualAuditory

KinestheticShows process

Trigger for discussion Creative

Collaborative

YouTube

Instruction

Showing a process

Trigger for discussion

deliciousSharing

KeywordsCritical thinking

CreativeCollaborative

VisualKinesthetic

Tagging

KeywordsVisual

Kinesthetic

Pen marker

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Facebook

CreativeCollaboration

VisualAuditory

Kinesthetic

Blackboard CourseFeed

Are you on Facebook?

Visual tools and OPACs

VisualKinesthetic

Active

LibraryThingCollaborative

SharingKinesthetic

Screencasting, podcasting and vodcasting

Shows processConvenience

CreativeAuditoryVisual

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Instant messaging

ConvenienceKinesthetic

Instant messaging

Second Life

ActivePersonal

VisualKinesthetic

Reference Desks in Second Life

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The future

We should seek to change their habits

and help to improve the quality of their questions

Web 2.0 tools can help us do this and to counter the mego effect

Librarians go wild

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