Internet Librarian 2011Learning, Innovation & Play

ACRL-ULS Internet Librarian wrap-upOctober 26, 2011

Rudy Leon@rudibrarian

rudy.leon@gmail.com

Overarching themes

• 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

John Seely Brown

• 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?

JSB’s Dispositions

• Curiosity. Amplify it.

• Questing. Probe, seek, uncover

• Connectivity. Learning with & from each other

The end of Cartesian knowing & identity

• 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

Know, Make, Play

• Homo Sapien (knower) Homo Faber (maker)

• Now also, maker of context (remix culture. New context makes content new)

• New Blended Epistemology

Homo fabermaking

Homo ludenplaying

Homo sapien

knowing

training & learning track

• Training happens to you, learning is a verb

• Change• Responsibility on learner• Big concepts, transferable skills• Social, personalized• YouTube games

From Training to Learning Emily

Clasper

training & learning track

• 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

Making Learning Stick: A Dozen Tips Polly

Farrington

training & learning track

• 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

From Training to Learning: Institutionalizing Creativity and Innovation Lisa Hardy and Nancy

MacKenzie

Calgary Public Library initiatives

• Created Future Action think tank

• What is a Library Future? blog• www.whatisalibraryfuture.tumblr.com

• Imagine the Future day, everyone participating in different possibilities

Inno-play-ion

• Developing a culture of innovation How it effects our services

• Definitions of Innovation, of play • Fuel creativity, curiosity, collaboration • Idea exchange

Helene Blowers

Links to Internet Librarian presentations/slides

• 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

Questions?

Rudy Leon Technology Training & Outreach

LibrarianUniversity of Illinois at Urbana

Champaignrudy.leon@gmail.com

@rudibrarianhttp://deepening.wordpress.com