21st Century Library Learning

Ruth Hall

OSLA President

OTF Library Camp

Toronto, Aug 5 - 7, 2009

The Future is Now:

• Virtual spaces• Virtual communication• Real-time & remote communications• Real-time & remote collaboration• Expanded communities• Print & Digital Resources • Choice• Personalization• Meaning making

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Education

• 21st century disconnect

“ …students feel when they come into school they have to power down to fit into an environment that offers fewer options for learning than are available in the life they live outside of the school”

“What if: Technology in the 21st Century Classroom”Ontario Public School Board Association.

Challenges

•Relevance

•Engagement

•Graduation rates

•Standardized test scores

•Shrinking populations

•Shrinking economy

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Mobile Technology

•Anywhere, anytime learning

•21st century social intereactions

•Personalized learning

“Children under 12 now make up one of the fastest growing segments of mobile technology users in the U.S.”

Carly Shuler (2009). Pockets of Potential.

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Web 2.0 TechnologySocial networking (IM, texting, Facebook, wikis,

blogs, outube, flikr)

• Portable computing (wireless, handheld)• Virtual connections (place, resources, reality)• Open sharing (Creative Commons, open

source)• Cloud computing (Google Docs, Diig,

Delicious)

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21stCenturyLibraries

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Digital Content

When is a book not a book?

• E-Readers

• E-books

• Audiobooks

• Graphic Novels

What is text????

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• Paid database content• Equity• Simultaneous access• Internet delivery system• E-resources• Training needs

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Where Are People Searching?Top 20 Educational and Reference Websites

Share of traffic in the category that week (March 2007)1. Wikipedia 24.33%2. Yahoo! Answers 4.23%3. Dictionary.com 3.79%4. Answers.com 3.53%5. SparkNotes 1.62%6. Google Scholar 1.31%7. Google Book Search 1.09%8. Find Articles .99%9. U.S. National Library of Medicine .99%10. Merriam-Webster Online .85%Source: Hitwise, U.S. Internet Visits (http://pewresearch.org/pubs/460/wikipediamarket share) for week

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Read/Write Web Shift

• Library learning commons

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Sense Making

‘When students are asked what Internet-related subjects they would like to learn about in school, the top choice for 68 per cent is “How to tell if information you find on the Net is true or not.”‘

Focusing your practice

• Letting go

• Connecting outside of the library’s physical space

• Relationship building

• Inviting “outside expertise in”

• Leadership roles

A Thousand Words

• The value of pictures

• 7 Ways to think outside the boxLiz Wilkinson, University of Auckland,http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=AU

&hl=en-GB&v=pMvAfVV41tQ

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Libraries & YouTube

• What 2 minute lesson would you film?

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Seeing the Big Picture

“The changes in education over the years keep the library the best place to be in the school to reach every learner.”

Pat Elliott