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Information Literacy meets Web 2.0
Ways to engage the internet generation
Peter Godwin
University of Bedfordshire
The educational background The Web generation Google and beyond Web 2.0 tools New approaches and content The future
Future of Higher Education
Technological changeCompetition
Population change
Student expectationsLearning & teaching methods
Funding
Web generationLifelong
learningInnovation
Branding
Our buildings and services say “I am to be admired, not used!”
They want to carve out their own information landscapes
Zarin flickr
It’s no longer a world of information scarcity!
Electronic books Institutional repositories Google and search engines Decline of scholarly monographs Open access journals Decline of reading lists?
Web generation
Wants single search boxes like Google and Amazon which give instant satisfaction
Find our databases too hard to use and not where they want to work
i.e. in their VLE Boolean logic – no thanks! Won’t bother to ask a librarian!
Web generation
Likes collaboration, teamwork and social networking
Navigates the Web by trial and error and won’t use manuals or help sheets
Research is a self-directed process, which is likely to be non-linear
Has grown up with PCs and video games Used to multitasking What is written down must be correct Will cut and paste rather than read and digest
Image: 'The Items I carry' www.flickr.com/photos/30815420@N00/1497697549
How do we respond?
Accept that they will use search engines
Teach Google and Google Scholar as legitimate sources where appropriate
Watch and recommend Google Print as a source of full text
Become Information Gurus and recommend other search engines as alternatives
“We need to concentrate on how to improve the quality of the question”
(Stephen Abram)
Web 2.0
RSS feeds Wikis Blogs Mashups Podcasting Tagging Vodcasting flickr del.icio.us MySpace YouTube Instant messaging
Bleu celt flickr
Blogs
Wikis
“With enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow”
(Eric Raymond)
Wikipedia
Social networks : MySpace
Social bookmarking
Tagging and Folksonomies
YouTube
Image: 'Looking for trouble'
www.flickr.com/photos/35034353164@N01/56034986
Mashup
A website or web application which uses content from more than one source to create a completely new service
Podcasts
A form of broadcasting allowing individuals to record, publish, find, subscribe and listen to audio over the internet on a portable player
Has been described as the new “tranny” Use RSS feeds which enable your
subscriptions to bring you up to date stuff which you can then move to your mp3 player when you are ready
Instant messaging
Communication using text in real-time between two persons e.g. via web
What it means for us
New skill sets to develop
FUN
Webchicken flickr
New ways of working
Web 2.0 and our opportunity
http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=458631663&size=m
How can we reach them?
How does it affect the content of our IL teaching?
McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario
Blogs Wikis Games Second Life
Blogs & Wikis
Blogs encourage community and reflection, and help writing skills
Create a blog for a course who receive IL teaching and allow comments, and link to subject guides
Wikis encourage group work and peer review Can be used in our teaching and could collect
student content into the teacher’s aggregator
Blogs
The “blogosphere” is becoming like a global brain and is a vital part of online culture
Blogs are very current and becoming a valid information source to get the latest ideas about a subject
Need to teach best sources for searching blogs
e.g.Technorati
Need to teach how to evaluate a blog e.g. Kathy Schrock
Wikipedia
Use Wikipedia as a legitimate starting point measured against other reference sources, understanding its strengths and weaknesses
Wikis : Ohio University Biz Wiki
RSS
RSS feeds allow researchers to subscribe to regular content from news services and relevant content from databases
Podcasts : Curtin University of Technology, Australia
Nursing podcasts at Fullerton Library California State University
Vodcasts: University of Aberdeen Library
YouTube
YouTube : DMU Induction video
L-Team from Williams College Library, Williamstown, Massachusetts
Library Channel at Arizona State University Libraries
New approaches – instant messaging
Contacting the library
Advert for RefWorks
Link to subject guides
New books
New databases
36 Friends
Chat
Search the Catalogue
Suggestions
Blog
University of Miami Library
on MySpace
Facebook : access COPAC
Facebook LibGuides
New approaches - flickr
Flickr for storage of our photos and for presentations
.
Use tagging as part of critical thinking, making links which involve evaluation, categorising, and formulating keywords
Del.icio.us
Del.icio.us as a research tool
helps students to organise what is found with easy storage of bookmarks, accessible anywhere…
assists referencing encourages tagging of
subjects by users which is central to the linking of ideas, and aids sharing of resources.
LibraryThing at Delany Library
New approaches - games
Use of gaming e.g. Ohio State University
gave out interactive game using Captivate to all new students
New approaches – Second Life
Virtual Enquiry Desk for the shy FL person
Best for enquiry-based and problem-based learning
Good for virtual
conferences
and distance learning--------------------------------------------SL Librarians Dancing flickr slg8
Offers community and
connectivity in an
electronic world
Makes the user leave her seat!
Image: 'We do not know what lies ahead...' www.flickr.com/photos/43132185@N00/80271449
The future ?
The future?
Kindle from Amazon
Effects on Information Literacy
The current IL models will survive but teaching will be less linear, less prescriptive, using more active learning techniques
Authority will not be so clear-cut as new metrics for assessing it are developed
Understanding the context will be crucial to information found on the web
Ethical use issues will be more significant
The participatory culture of Web 2.0 is here to stay
And finally
It’s a world of perpetual beta so let’s experiment! Using these tools we need only be constrained by our imaginations to engage our users as never before!
