The Librarian

In a sea of information someone needs to steer

the way

Depiction of an Aleutian sea otter hunt

The gatherers

Source wikipedia - copyright expired

Native American boat builders carving out the interiors of whole tree trunks to produce dug-outs

Source wikipedia - copyright expired

The winnowers

According to Larry Sanger the argument runs thus

Should children be educated primarily so as to fit well into society,

OR

Should the focus be on training minds for critical thinking and filling them with knowledge?

Brockman, J. ed. 2011 ibid

What is all this research and education for?

Increasing information or making meaning for

oneself

Remembering facts (for exams and tests) or

developing new ways of seeing/preparing learners for the world that

will be

Applying information/skills or

engaging in effective action in different or variable situations/identifying alternative strategies

Googling stats speak for themselves

http://www.statisticbrain.com/google-searches/

Year Annual Number of Google Searches Average Searches Per Day

2013 2,161,530,000,000 5,922,000,0002012 1,873,910,000,000 5,134,000,0002011 1,722,071,000,000 4,717,000,0002010 1,324,670,000,000 3,627,000,0002009 953,700,000,000 2,610,000,0002008 637,200,000,000 1,745,000,0002007 438,000,000,000 1,200,000,0002000 22,000,000,000 60,000,000

1998 3,600,000 *Googles official first year 9,800

Some 73% of online adults now use a social networking site of some kind. Facebook is the dominant social networking platform in the number of users, but a striking number of users are now diversifying onto other platforms. Some 42% of online adults now use multiple social networking sites.

… Instagram users are nearly as likely as Facebook users to check in to the site on a daily basis.

Daniel Miller

…. a change in Facebook can arise, not from anything that happens within Facebook itself, but because of changes in the other media it is differentiated from. In my surveys at schools it is now Twitter, Instagram, WhatsApp and Snapchat that connect pupils with other young people. Snapchat connects the closest friends, WhatsApp the quite close friends, Twitter the wider friends, while Instagram can include strangers. By contrast, Facebook has become the place where people interact with older people, especially parents and the wider family, or even older siblings who have gone to university.

Professor Daniel Miller (UCL)http://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/social-networking/2013/11/24/what-will-we-learn-from-the-fall-of-facebook/

Smartphone users check social media 20 times per day4 out of 5 minutes on a smartphone are spent on mobile applications

Users spend more time on Facebook & Twitter through their phone than they do on their desktops

Apple comes first in ‘most purchased’ smart phone, with Samsung in second

http://stephenslighthouse.com/2013/06/29/infographic-the-current-state-of-smartphones/

So who are we, or at least, whom do we have to become?

Librarians Media specialists

Learning Resources co-ordinators

EducatorFacilitatorMentorAdviserGuideSounding boardCustodian

InformationCompetence:

SuccessCriteria

Access

• I sum up what I know, and plan what I need to find out.

• I identify the kinds of information that will be useful to me.

• I work out where this kind of information can be found.

• I am able to access and choose the right information for the task.

Re search

• I read, skim or scan the information I find.

• I assess, select and reject information as appropriate.

• I plan how to use the resources I have found.

• I record the information I need effectively.

Analyse

• Having selected the relevant information, I consider it in detail.

• I identify key features, words, patterns and points.

• I re-structure the information so that I can understand it better. (E.g. re-writing in my own words, drawing a diagram, flow chart, a graph, etc.)

Evaluate

• I weigh up what I have learned from my analysis.

• I assess the quality and importance of the information.

• I decide whether further research is needed.

Create

• I present what I have learned.• I combine different pieces of

information to produce something original.

• I express my feelings and opinions about the subject.

• I reflect on my final outcomes and plan for future improvement.

Example learning objective:

Demonstrate your RESEARCH skills by reading and making notes on...

Show that you can EVALUATE successfully by sorting and rating the source texts.

This leads us to this gentleman

http://www.unisa.edu.au/gradquals/images/Blooms.jpg

Which has since been revised

It’s time to fight back using weapons freely available.

There can be lots of ways to engage your students and promote the

resources they need to use

http://animoto.com/play/DASiJ11scoSmO8WbZismVg

So much to suggest, so much to experiment with, here are a few names you may have heard of…

Tools to use on the Web

Glogster

Slideshare

weebly

edmodo

ISSUU

diigo

NetvibesPrezi

Del.icio.us

Scoop.it!

librarythingEvernote

Dropbox AudacityVoicethread

Pinterest

Xtranormal

animoto

vimeo

So popular it became a verb

Boolean and advanced searching

Playing cards

B*ms on a goalpost

wwwww

Useful as a guide in what needs to be done…

… and even more useful as an aide memoire for referencing

wwwwwWho What Why Where When

PlagiarismIn my experience, the best way to make the idea of intellectual property hit homeis to take something that they feel is owned;… that they have created for themselves, And to give it to somebody else

Mickey Mouse Charlie Brown

One way to find out what stuck in the mind after an induction session

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In schools with well stocked, well-equipped school libraries, managed by qualified and motivated professional school librarians working with support staff, one can expect:

Achievement scores tend to be 10 to 20% higher than in schools without this investment;

Development of capable and avid readers;

Learners who have a range of information skills to transform information into personal knowledge;

Teachers who are partnering with school librarians to create high-quality learning experiences based on curriculum standards.

Prof Ross Todd, Rutgers, State University of New JourneyCenter for International Scholarship in School Libraries www.cissl.scils.rutgers.edu

The Evidence shows that…..

SoThe evidence is out there and I could have taken a whole day not merely an hour to demonstrate some of the wonderful things my colleagues do.

K = the huge lengths we go to in order to motivate and

engage students

R = resources, we select, purchase, index, promote to staff +

students

U = teaching either explicitly or through ‘the back door’ and

to individuals

T = our accessibility , not being tied to a curriculum (+

understanding of current issues )

T = team (the team with our staff; the team we make with our

colleagues)

and,

 

sometimes it will be the team we create with our learners

so they achieve more

References and sourcesSource file

Brockman, J. ed. 2011 How is the Internet changing the way you think? The Net’s impact on our minds and future. 9780857892454http://www.edudemic.com/librarian-digital-age/

http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2013/Social-Media-Update.aspx

http://gsmis.org/

http://www.statisticbrain.com/google-searches/

http://digitalunite.com/

http://www.businessinsider.com/whatsapp-is-the-leading-messaging-app-2014-1

http://stephenslighthouse.com/

http://

www.insidehighered.com/blogs/library-babel-fish/tacit-knowledge-and-student-researcher#ixzz2X

VPlcQNH

http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/Documents/libraries/5883LibrarySkillspack-studentst8.pdf

http://www.informationr.net/ir/13-4/paper355.html

http://www.citethisforme.com/

http://www.neilstoolbox.com/

http://cooltoolsforschools.wikispaces.com/

http://

www.scottishlibraries.org/storage/sectors/schools/SLIC_RGU_Impact_of_School_Libraries_2013.pdf

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-21395102

http://sla.org.uk