putting technology on trial - slav conference
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Technology offers incredible opportunities to transform the way the library sector skills itself and the learning for the community. Technology often defines our comfort with change and our ability to adapt. This session will explore the ways in technology has shifted the balance of the expert, but not the role of wisdom. To foster new opportunities for engagement and communication, libraries must grapple with a legacy and empower people to find where innovation and risk meet.TRANSCRIPT
SLAV 2012
Putting technology on trial
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Two large stones
P–3
Lessons
Information
Perception
Influence
Vision
P–4
COMPASS of technology integration
Navigation
Skills
ExpertsWherever
BE wise
BE flexible
BE engaged
BE resourceful
Navigation – BE wise
P–5
Systems
Absorption
Expulsion
Propulsion
Ripples
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P–6
Navigation – BE wise – Systems: Osmos
Navigation – BE wise
P–7
Libraries
Information. Inspiration. Ideas
Inspiration service provider
Innovation = risk
0
10
20
30
40
50
Libraries
Navigation – BE wise
Information
Scarcity - simplicity
Complexity - chaos
Exponential pathways
No end to learning
Information gap
P–9
TASK
Tell the person next to you something you think they don’t know, but need to.
The Fifth Discipline
P–10
“The more you learn, the more acutely aware you become of your ignorance.”
Peter Senge
The Fifth Discipline
The 5
1. Systems thinking
2. Personal mastery
3. Mental models
4. Building shared vision
5. Team learning
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The Fifth Discipline
Insights about experts
Openness to learning more
New ways of thinking
Deeply inquisitive
“Today’s problems come from yesterday’s solutions.”
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“Sagacity…the intelligentapplication of knowledgeacquired from years of learning
and experience.” Brian Caldwell
P–14
Apophenia
‘Making connections where none previously existed’ - Danah Boyd
Seeing meaningful patterns or connections
Navigation – BE wise
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Weapons of Mass Instruction
P–15
John Taylor Gatto
Production and consumption
“…help kids take an education rather than merely receive schooling.”
“Problems encountered outside school walls are treated as peripheral when in truth they are always central.”
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P–16
Open-source teaching
Teachers pay teachers
MOOCs
User pays
User wisdom
Navigation – BE wise
P–17
Learning & literacy
Shaping minds
Reflecting curiosity
Critical thinking
Creative thinking
Time
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Skills – BE flexible
P–18
Aust. Curriculum
Intercultural understanding
Ethical behaviour
Social capability
Rethinking failure
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Skills – BE flexible
Skills – BE flexible
P–19
Teachers do not need more tools – you are the carpenters of learning. Build and create.
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Skills – Challenges or opportunities?
Skills – BE flexible
Search
amateurs vs. expertsAND
Search knowing it existsAUTHENTICATION
Search knowing if it existsVERIFICATION
100 Time Saving Search Engines for Serious Scholars: Online Universities
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Skills – BE flexible
P–23
Skills – BE flexible
An expert is
reading
reacting
repeating
reflecting
Experts – BE engaged
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Experts – BE engaged
P–25
Kids as experts?
Relationships
Creativity
Success
Digital natives
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Experts – BE engaged
P–26
Networks
Connections
Collectives
Authorship & authorityDECENTRALISED
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P–27
Experts – BE engaged
P–28
Experts – BE engaged
A New Culture of Learning
P–29
John Seely-Brown
The web is a participatory medium
Constantly changed & shaped by participation
Vast resources: motivation & boundaries
Imagination
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23760200@N04/3182820590
P–30
Not just kids
Hanging out
Messing around
Geeking out
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Experts – BE engaged
Wherever – BE resourceful
P–31
Technology on trial
Open-mind
Knowledge
Play
Internet Archive: 1m. torrents
The Internet Map
http://internet-map.net/
Wherever – BE resourceful
P–32
Gamer’s goals
Improve
Diversity
Solve
Fun
Risk
P–33
Replay and refine
Experimental
Reward, recognition
Integrated experiences
Augmented experiences
‘Books aren’t dead. They’ve just gone digital.’
Wherever – BE resourceful
Putting libraries on trial
P–34
“A funny thing happened on the way to its predicted obsolescence. The library became more popular than ever.”
“They come to study. They come to work together. They come to use technology they can’t carry around. They come here to consult with experts, with librarians.”
Mark Lamster, re: NYPL
Orbiting the Giant Hairball
P–35
“…sweet dividends of prudent ingenuity.”
Gordon Mackenzie
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Putting technology on trial
Relationshift
Technology is the weapon of mass (differentiated) instruction
Mimicry is also inspiration
Expert acknowledges the creativity of the crowd
New evolving from old
Two large stones: find your compass
Goyte – Somebodies – YouTube Orchestra