Kathleen JohnsonSeattle Academy

Green Librarian

Arcs of INNOVATION

Dedicated to Buffy

Hamilton, tireless

advocate for School

Libraries

7

Kathleen JohnsonSeattle Academy

Green Librarian

Arcs of INNOVATION

Dedicated to Buffy

Hamilton, tireless

advocate for School

Libraries

7

Ladies and Gentlemen

Right about nowYou are rockin’ with the best of ‘em all

You are now rockin’ with the

best

WLMA Librarians !

Get ready to rumble!

Kathleen JohnsonSeattle Academy

Green Librarian

Arcs of INNOVATION

Dedicated to Buffy

Hamilton, tireless

advocate for School

Libraries

7

Stephen Abramshttp://www.slideshare.net/stephenabram1/seflin2011

xkcd

Our Journey Analog to

Digital

http://shepardartstudio.com/contentdmV8.html

Every aspect of our work and environment is changing.

Librarians Standards Physical Space Our Materials / Services / Acquisitions Our Students How Libraries work together

Realms of Change

Librarians

LiteracyOur Foundation

Then we had three revolutions:

Internet and

Broadband Wireless

ConnectivitySocial Networking

Literacies GONE WILD

Is it no wonder…

We look like this

Almost everyday…

We…

Encounter the Unexpected…

Read

Transitions

Read, view, listen

Student LearnerLifelong LearnerPersonal Learner

Info Lit

Transitions

Multiple Lits

IndividualGroup Learning

Skills

Transitions

Skills & Dispositions

Self-Assessment

Digital EcosystemsChat RoomsPhoto BlogsListservsForumsWeb SitesViral this ‘n thatSearchKeywordsBlog Aggregators

EmailSocial Networking BookmarkingWikisGoogle everythingMicrocastingWebcasts PodcastsWeb radioVlogseAdvocacy

TaggingFile SharingCollaboratingTagging

Best

Book

Evah!

- Clay Shirkey

Kathleen JohnsonSeattle Academy

Green Librarian

Arcs of INNOVATION

Dedicated to Buffy

Hamilton, tireless

advocate for School

Libraries

7

1. Spaces: Physical and Virtual

2. LMS as a Learning Specialist (Zmuda & Harada)

3. Transliteracy      

4. Embedded Librarian

5. Professional Development on Steroids

6. Lankes Worldview: Atlas of New Librarianship

7. Personal Learning Environments: Become Learner-centered, not library-centered

7 Arcs of Innovation

1.Spaces:Physical & Virtual

Reposition the library as the primary informal learning space on campus

“We are just beginning to

understand how important physical

space is to learning and how

radically different true learning-

centered campuses will look in the

future.”A FREE online book located here:http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/PUB7102.pdf

Chapter 30 Northwestern University’s InfoCommons

Old assumptions about space

1. Learning only happens in classrooms

2. Learning only happens at fixed times

3. Learning is an individual activity

4. A classroom has a “front”

5. What happens in a classroom everyday is the same

6. Learning demands privacy and removal of distractions

7. Flexibility can be enhanced by filling a room with as many chairs as will fit

8. Students will destroy comfy furniture

2.LMS:As Learning Specialist

http://www.schoollibrarymonthly.com/articles/Zmuda&Harada2008v24nn8p42.html

Bad business Good business

Success is defined by the number of staff members who collaborate with the librarian.

Success is defined by the quality of the work completed in the library.

Success is defined by doing whatever is asked in order to be recognized as valuable or important.

Success is defined by investing resources only in those tasks that are central to the library mission.

Success is defined by helping students find what they are looking for.

…defined by engaging students in the construction of deep knowledge through the exploration of ideas and info, conducting of investigations, and communication and evaluation of findings.

Success is defined by the number of instructional sessions held in the library media center.

Success is defined by student learning that resulted from the completion of work centered on subject area and information-literacy goals.

p. 40 – Librarians as Learning Specialists. Allison Zmuda, Violet H. Harada

3.Transliteracy

Working Definition:

Transliteracy is the ability to

> read, write and interact

> across a range of platforms, tools and media

from signing and orality through handwriting,

print, TV, radio and film, to digital social networks.

- Stephen Abrams

Buffy Hamilton

http://www.slideshare.net/buffyjhamilton/transforming-information-literacy-for-todays-students-libraries-as-sponsors-of-transliteracy

In the end, its advantageous to promote skills of access, production and interaction across a variety of formats, devices andplatforms.

The Art of Discovery …is evolving

Brands Social / Sharing

Search& &

moo

cs

4.The EmbeddedLibrarian (and Library)

Examples of Embedding:

Library Librarian

Catalog, Pathfinders, etc in course management systems

Chat with a librarian box embedded in virtual spaces

Ask teachers to incorporate library links in their assignments

All contact info for Librarian in virtual spaces

Incorporate library links in school website, as close to the top of the home page as possible

ExploringMobileOpportunitiesFor UserConvenience

Deliver library resources and services at the point of need in a manner that users want and understand. - Excerpt from

OCLC Vision

5.Professional Development on Steroids

Anytime Anywhere

TIP: Check out opportunities beyond the library community Search Twitter

for:•#Change11•#DS106• “mooc” (massive online open courses)

6.The Atlas of NEWLibrarianship(David Lankes)

“… a new librarianship based not on books and artifacts but on knowledge and learning…”

Knowledge is created through conversations.

Knowledge can only be resident in humans.

People who participate in conversations reach agreements.

Agreements form the basis of what we know.

Agreements can be encoded into artifacts but artifacts do not contain the agreements (or the knowledge).

Memory function:

Librarians preserve artifacts to enhance conversations by providing the memory of past agreements.

Therefore if…

The mission of Librarians is to improve society through facilitating knowledge creation in their communities…

AND knowledge is created through conversation, THEN we are in the conversation business.

Atlas of New Librarianship

Companion Website/ Participatory Sitehttp://www.newlibrarianship.org/wordpress/

p. xii: “This book is all about conversations. The Atlas is my contribution to that conversation and it is really an invitation for you to join in.”

- R. David Lankes

7.Personal LearningEnvironments

hyperlinks

BIG HAIRY AUDACIOUS GOAL

As School Librarians we need to place each student at the center of their own information universe!  

PLEWhat is it?

PLN =PersonalLearningNetwork

Personal cognition Distributed cognition

+

Online communit

ies

http://www.educause.edu/EDUCAUSE+Review/EDUCAUSEReviewMagazineVolume45/StreamsofContentLimitedAttenti/213923

As we continue to move from a broadcast model of information to a networked one, we will continue to see a reworking of the information landscape. -danah boyd

“This world of learning will be customized, connected, amplified, authentic, relevant, and resilient and it is beginning to unfold now.”

Why PLEs?“…real-world problems are now too complex to be solved by a single person. The knowledge and expertise needed to solve them is increasingly distributed across networks.”

- Paavola & Hakkarainen, 2005; Nardi, et al, 2000)

“Distributed intelligence means that resources that shape and enable activity are distributed … across people, environments, and situations.”

- Henry Jenkins, 2007

http://www.projectnml.org/files/working/NMLWhitePaper.pdf

The emergence of new internet environments in the last decade now require that students master the ability to ...capture “flows” of real-time information as they stream through RSS (really simple syndication) technologies and micro-blogs.  

SHIFTIntelligence is an attribute of individuals (as in possessed by)

Intelligence is accomplished not possessed

Learn how to conceptualize and use

your subject guides as more than a

static web page -- we'll explore how

subject guides can anchor partnerships

for learning, introduce social

scholarship, and model processes and

skills for networked learners who are

creating personal learning

environments.Buffy Hamilton

The UnQuiet Librarian

8.Event: Next Chapter

http://nextchapter.reimagine-ed.org/

Design thinking... what is that?

1: Define the problemImmersion and the intense cross examination of the filters that have been employed in defining a problem.

2: Create and consider many optionsEven the most talented teams and businesses sometimes fall into the trap of solving a problem the same way every time.

3: Refine selected directionsA handful of promising results need to be embrace and nurtured.

3.5 Repeat (optional)Design thinking may require looping steps 2 and 3 until the right answers surface.

4: Pick the winner, execute

“Fail early, fail often (‘til you get it right)”

- Stanford D-School

Using design thinking 4 brave cohorts tinkered with the future of school libraries.

Here are some of the ideas they came up with.

1. Every surface a workspace2. A playground for project-based learning3. A place to hack secrets 4. Library as portal to a journey: a path of discovery5. A place to “remember” where I have been6. Life = Learning = Library7. Remember the big picture: we are redesigning learning8. Libranasium (part gym, stage and library) with

Libracoaches9. Learners crave a culture of contribution10.All furniture and walls flexible11.Place to take a heroic journey12.A user-driven space13.Full of yurts as private spaces14.Library as a community of conversations

http://nextchapter.reimagine-ed.org/

More…

1. With many flash carts to enable flash-mob collaboration2. With porch swings3. And kitchen islands4. Napping allowed (It’s brain-friendly”)5. Transformed into the place to be6. Info Exchange hub of learning with members (not users)7. Libraries as Fields of Dreams (a metaphor for the American

dream)8. Pearls of Possibilities & Enchantment9. Play as an end product, not a way to work10.Roles and relationships are not static11.Attachment is the story of learning12.Yes, AND13.As a tinkerers studio14.Exercise your curiosity, be dangerous15.Relationships, relationships, relationships16.Safe place to fail

Catch my presentation November 2, 2011 at 5pm Pacific Time

http://www.library20.com/page/2011-conference

A little bit about your presenter:

Kathleen JohnsonLibrarian at Seattle Academykjohnson@seattleacademy.orgTwitter : @simkathy

• BA: Ethnomusicology (University of Washington)

• MLS: University of Washington,1977 (Minor in Multimedia)

• 3 years in West Africa recording music and making documentary films; created a national cultural archives for Burkina Faso

• First job: Director, Kelso Public Library in SW Washington

• Ran a desktop publishing business from 1985-95

• Worked in several special corporate libraries in a high tech environment and in Competitive Intelligence (SCIP)

• Currently a school librarian at Seattle Academy, Seattle WA

Credits

Slide 4: Stephen Abrams slide deckSlide 8: Clips from various product sites Slide 9: Stephen Abrams slide deckSlide 10: Stephen Abrams slide deckSlide 11: XKCD, purchased postersSlide 12: From OCLC w/permissionSlide 15: Made by photography students at Seattle AcademySlide 18: Stephen AbramsSlide 21: Student from Seattle AcademySlide 26: Slide 28: Slide 31: http://www.flickr.com/photos/daniel_solis/4520024767/?reg=1&src=comment Daniel SolisSlide 32: Made by photography students at Seattle AcademySlide 73: Wendy Drexler, used with permissionAll other photos were purchased from iStockPhoto.com

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