the unquiet library: make the connection: learning to play, playing to learn
DESCRIPTION
Presentation to the faculty of Creekview High School, July 29, 2009 by Buffy Hamilton. See the visual map referenced in this presentation at http://www.mindomo.com/view.htm?m=1d7256e89dee403cb977d41cb3b64809 . Many thanks to Helene Blowers for her permission to use her concept of learning and play in this presentation.TRANSCRIPT
the unquiet library make the connection: learning to play,
playing to learn
presented by Buffy Hamilton
what’s the
connection between
learning and
play?
Image used under a Creative Commons license from http://www.flickr.com/photos/larimdame/3630728238/sizes/l/in/set-72157619795765502/
Image used under a Creative Commons license from http://www.flickr.com/photos/nlaunceford/2658082800/sizes/l/in/photostream/
the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold.”
Joseph Chilton Pearce
“play is the only way
“to live a
creative life, we must
lose our fear of
being wrong.” Joseph Chilton Pearce
Image used under a Creative Commons license from http://www.flickr.com/photos/these_are_mine/3709607592/sizes/l/
“life must be lived as
play.”Plato
This image used under a Creative Commons license from
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jamiecampbell/1231089294/sizes/l/
Image used under a Creative Commons license from http://www.flickr.com/photos/wrichard/3743686850/sizes/o/
the players: today’s learner the connected student
“we live in a web of
ideas, a fabric of
our own making.”
Joseph Chilton PearceImage used under a Creative Commons license from
http://www.flickr.com/photos/doyoubleedlikeme/2853091801/sizes/o/
how can your librarians help
students make the
connection between
learning and
play?Image used under a Creative Commons license from http://www.flickr.com/photos/larimdame/3629909927/sizes/l/in/set-72157619795765502/
change agents
information sherpas
learning architects
learning concierge
innovators
inspiration agentsteacherscollaboratorsambassadors of information fluency Image used under a Creative Commons liense from
http://www.flickr.com/photos/imageining/3629051925/sizes/l/
Image used under a Creative Commons license from
http://www.flickr.com/photos/urpix/2490469408/sizes/l/
the unquiet library: your playground for
learning
what are our bubbles of learning and
play for 2009-10?Image used under a Creative Commons license from
http://www.flickr.com/photos/spursfan_ace/887688143/sizes/l/
let’s explore a visual map of our bubble solution of learning and play
what is the essential element
of our bubble solution?
Image used under a Creative Commons license from http://www.flickr.com/photos/paveway/2942856928/sizes/l/
collaboration
Image used under Creative Commons license from
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tiarescott/3639844651/sizes/l/
what do research tasks without
collaboration and research pathfinders look like? Image used under a CC license
from http://www.flickr.com/photos/ebolasmallpox/295530974/sizes/l/
how do bubbles of learning change
with collaboration
andresearch
pathfinders?
Image used under a CC license from http://www.flickr.com/photos/audrix/1572151898/sizes/o/ /
when students have guidance in creating multiple
nodes in their personal learning network?
Image used a Create Commons license from http://www.flickr.com/photos/timo/23296368/sizes/l/
what happens when blowing bubbles of information fluency happens across the faculty? Image used under a CC license from
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ronaldhennessy/2602107714/
let’s build super bubbles of
learning and
playImage used under a Creative Commons license from
http://www.flickr.com/photos/floater81/3679792730/sizes/l/
not burst bubbles of learning by ignoring the shifts in the information and education landscape
Image used a Creative Commons license from http://www.flickr.com/photos/tz1_1zt/2605781548/sizes/l/in/set-72157605827938964/
we invite you and your students to
come learn
and play at the
unquiet library,
your library
Image used under a CC license from http://www.flickr.com/photos/bilbill/3712534323/sizes/l/in/pool-79254678@N00/
Acknowledgements
• Special thank you to Helene Blowers for allowing me to borrow her concept of bubbles and play.
• Resources to enhance today’s presentation: http://delicious.com/theunquietlibrary/faculty-orientation-ppt-july2009
• Mindomo Map of the 2009-10 Unquiet Library program, mission, goals, and initiatives.