RUDY LEON & COLLEEN HARRIS

2.0 Learning and 1.8 Users: Bridging the Gap

Myths

Skilled online searchersFacile with new gizmosAlways connectedEffective multi-taskersRequire constant stimulationMust be entertainedLearn by doing

MythBusting

They do use the stuffBut in a canned dummy box wayThey don’t have the map – they don’t realize

they are using the stuff This means they don’t get transferable skills Ramifications for our new services- they don’t fit into

student’s understandings of what they already know

Digital Divide

Stats 61.8% ownsership 99% of U.S. schools

Fault lines Race: 65% v 45% Class:

83% (75k+) 62% (25k-35k) 31% (<15k)

Persistent effects

Challenges - Faculty

What Faculty Know (or don’t) Chicken burrito

Beliefs about students They’ll figure it out

Equipment Teaching faculty to fish

Challenges – Faculty II

Faculty not highly trained in teaching Hostile to the implication Tech training is also Ed Tech training

Who does it? How do we discuss tech as teaching when pedagogy so

fraught?

Getting Faculty On Board

Owning our own expertiseCompetitive processes for course

developmentGetting out there, making connectionsFaculty attend class instructionLeveraging reaccreditation processes

Campus – IT

What They DoScarce ResourcesKittens and BeerMultiple models: Who

trains? Why? Why librarians?

Learning Spaces

Safe Learning Spaces

How-to strategies for engaging students/faculty Workshops Making equipment

available Actionable

assignments Partnerships

Moving Forward– Learning Spaces

Safe learning spaces– not just the classroomTech is fun, Libraries are for learning

Is the tail wagging the dog?

Critical thinking, mental maps “Ripped from the headlines” “movie night” game night

Building the Bridge

The MythsThe Myths Skilled online

searchers Facile with new gizmos Always connected Effective multi-taskers Require constant

stimulation Must be entertained Learn by doing

ActionablesActionables Make our services

meet our fears Gadgets support

learning We decide what must

be Space and structure for

play More skepticism

Questions/Comments

Colleen S. HarrisReference & Instruction

LibrarianUniv. of Tennessee at

ChattanoogaColleen-Harris@utc.edu(warmaiden in 2.0-Land)

Rudy LeonLearning Commons LibrarianUniv. of Illinois Urbana

Champaignrudyleon@illinois.eduRudibrarian most places in 2.0-

land)