The library of the future will include

the one you make for yourself

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The library of the future will include

the one you make for yourself

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Kathleen JohnsonSeattle Academy

Green Librarian

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BROAD OUTLINE OF TALK:

The LIBRARY of the future will include the one you make yourself

WHY …will we build our own librarieso Because we can (and many of us already are)

o Because we’ll have to

HOW …will we build our own librarieso Personal Learning Environmentso Tools of the future that haven’t yet been

invented

Definition: LIBRARY

The definition of a library is a rich information environment customized and optimized by Librarians for its users.

The definition of a personal library is a rich information environment customized and optimized by its owner for his or her specific needs.

Three revolutions:

Internet and

Broadband

Wireless Connectivity

Social Networking

Quiz: How many books (&

CDs, DVDs) do you have on your shelves at home?

In a digital world your virtual libraryshelf is

unlimited in size.

Hey! Where is my stuff!

BIG SHIFT:Ownership >>> Access

Local >>> Cloud

Transaction

A physical operation, action, or process of passing or making over a thing from one person, thing, or state to another.

“If you think the internet is just an extension of how to find the old stuff more easily, you have seriously missed the challenge all of us face.” - John Seely Brown (10/18/11)

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/17940819

BIG SHIFT:

Stocks >>> Flows (terms originating in the field

of system dynamics, J.W. Forrester, The Limits of Growth)

>>> Streams (eg: RSS)

PC

• File• Folder• Desktop

Web

• Page• Link• Web

Cloud

• Stream• Tag• Cloud• Real-time• Web 2.0

Kevin KELLYhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXPfSrmzLo0

“As we continue to move from a broadcast model of information to a networked one, we will continue to see a reworking of the information landscape.”

“Previously we focused on information as a destination… accessing information as a process and producing information as a task.

“In order to take advantage of the streams of information and media we have to LIVE INSIDE the STREAM. We are

• Adding to it (sharing)• Consuming it• Redirecting it”

danah boyd, MS Researchhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=cB_D6FE9z-Q#!

I am not a person. I am an RSS feed.

You can use me to train information -- on any topic or by any person -- to come to you!

(Pull not Push)

“Problems cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them.” - Einstein

“How is the way we are thinking limiting our future?” Charlotte Roberts (.biz)

Streams that are inherently personal or become so because an individual sets them up based on personal interest: (type on the white board)

InformationContainers

Conversations: The New Container

“The information produced and consumed by humankind used to vanish – that was the norm, the default. The sights, the sounds, the songs, the spoken word just melted away. Marks on stone, parchment, and paper were the special case. Now expectations have inverted. Everything may be recorded and preserved, at least potentially …”

How Information Became Everything (article)

From alphabets to iPhones, humans have experimented with data storage for millennia. In the modern age, though, information is beginning to overwhelm the physical world.

By James GleickDiscover, July/Aug 2011. p. 58-60

BIG SHIFT:

Students at the mercy of the entire Internet

Students build their own information spaces (library) to control the internet

Horizon Report K-12 Edition - 2009OverviewThe personal web refers to both a collection of technologies and a way of thinking about online content. Described as part of a trend that began with simple innovations like personalized start pages, RSS aggregation, and customizable widgets, the personal web is a term coined to represent a collection of technologies that confer the ability to reorganize, configure and manage online content rather than just viewing it; but part of the personal web is the underlying idea that web content can be sorted, displayed, and even built upon according to an individual’s personal needs and interests.

http://wp.nmc.org/horizon-k12-2009/chapters/personal-web/

Horizon Report K-12 Edition - 2011Overview

Personal learning environments (PLEs) are often described as systems for enabling self directed and group-based learning, designed around each user’s goals, with great capacity for flexibility and customization. PLEs are conceived as drawing on a variety of discrete tools, chosen by the learner, which can be connected or used in concert in a transparent way. While the concept of PLEs is still quite fluid, it does seem to be clear that a PLE is not simply a technology but an approach or process that is individualized by design, and thus different from person to person. It involves sociological and philosophical considerations and cannot be packaged, passed out, and handed around as a cell phone or tablet computer could. Widespread adoption of PLEs, once the tools and approaches are clearer, will almost certainly also require a shift in attitudes toward technology, teaching, and learning.

 

Big List of PLE Diagrams (note the categories of PLE conceptualizations)

http://edtechpost.wikispaces.com/PLE+Diagrams

PLEWhat is it?

PLN =PersonalLearningNetwork

The institutional library and the professional librarian of the future will became nodes in an individuals PLE.

Librarian

Why PLEs?

“…real-world problems are now too complex to be solved by a single person. The knowledge and expertise needed to solve them is increasingly distributed across networks.” - Paavola & Hakkarainen, 2005; Nardi, et al, 2000)

“’What can you do?’ Has been replaced with ‘What can you and your network connection do?’ Knowledge itself is moving from the individual to the individual and his contacts.”

--Jay Cross, Informal Learning

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“Distributed intelligence means that resources that shape and enable activity are distributed in configurations across people, environments, and situations.”

-- Henry Jenkins, 2007

http://www.projectnml.org/files/working/NMLWhitePaper.pdf

Another reason for PLEs

Information is Flowing

Now that knowledge has moved onto networks and it’s flowing, how does this effect knowledge creation?

The Art of Discovery / Inquiry …is evolving

Brands Social / Sharing

Search& &

OLD Knowledge NEW Knowledge

Learning as a transaction Learning as a process

Knowledge is objective and certain

Knowledge is subjective and provisional

Learners receive knowledge Learners create knowledge

Knowledge is organized in stable hierarchical structures that can be treated independently of each other

Knowledge is organized “ecologically” – disciplines are integrative and interactive

We learn best passively by listening and watching

We learn best by actively doing and managing our own learning

Our intelligence is based on our individual abilities

Our intelligence is based on our learning communities

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Lee RAINIEhttp://www.pewinternet.org/Presentations/2011/Oct/Internet-Librarian.aspx

You know what they say about the goldfish. He doesn’t know he is swimming because he is surrounded by water.

BIG HAIRY AUDACIOUS GOAL

As school librarians we need to place each student at the center of their own information universe!  

You are only as smart as your network.

(Distributed Cognition)

Being prepared for future work environments will take more than just learning how to learn.

3 Dispositions will be needed and dispositions cannot be

taught. • Curiosity• Questing• Knowing how to connect

--John Seely Brown

Coming soon:

Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren’t the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest Person in the Room Is the RoomBy David Weinberger

Buy new: $25.99 $17.15

Available for Pre-order. This item will be released on January 3, 2012.

- Clay Shirkey

You can add your ideas to this wiki page if you register with Wetpaint. The “Why Libraries Will Survive” page is here:

http://21stcenturylearning.wetpaint.com/page/Why+Libraries+Will+Survive+the+Big+Shift

A little bit about your presenter:

Kathleen JohnsonLibrarian at Seattle Academykjohnson@seattleacademy.orgTwitter : @simkathy

• BA: Ethnomusicology (University of Washington)

• MLS: University of Washington,1977 (Minor in Multimedia)

• 3 years in West Africa creating a national cultural archives, recording music and making documentary films

• Director, Kelso Public Library in SW Washington

• Ran a desktop publishing business from 1985-95

• Worked in several special corporate libraries in a high tech environment and in competitive intelligence (SCIP)

• Currently a school librarian at Seattle Academy