community building and knowledge creation

Beyond the Inquiry: community building and knowledge creation

1 Australian School Library Association Inc

http://www.asla.org.au

Notes from keynote address


Karen Bonanno, Executive Officer

Australian School Library Association

for

Creating Future Libraries

Inquire Within: A 21st

Century Learning Approach

Annual Network Conference 2012

22 October 2012

Future Libraries Reference Group: An initiative of DETE Metropolitan Region

“The MISSION of LIBRARIANS is to IMPROVE SOCIETY through

FACILITATING KNOWLEDGE CREATION in their COMMUNITIES”

R. David Lankes, 2011 The atlas of new librarianship: companion site

http://www.newlibrarianship.org/wordpress/

Importance of worldview Longitude: global influences

1. Globalisation

� Economic growth

� Balance of power

� New technologies

� New industries

� Different employment patterns

� Changing skill set

2. Technology

� Increased connectedness

� Ubiquitous computing

� Cloud based applications and services

� Anywhere, anytime, anyplace

3. Workforce




Changes in employment shares by occupational groups, 1960 – 2009, selected OECD countries

OECD 2012, Better skills, better jobs, better lives: a strategic approach to skills policies

4. Generational gap

Baby boomer Millennial

Attire Business – casual (high end) Whatever feels comfortable

Work

environment

Long hours – office only Office, home – desires flexible schedule

Motivation Salary Maintain personal life




Mentoring Does not handle well negative

feedback

Constant feedback needed

Technology Documents prepared by

associates, email primarily in the

office, web use to “google”

Creates own documents, databases, etc. Uses web to research

and network, uses of email, IM, text 24/7

Career goals Build a perfect career, excel Build several parallel careers, have several jobs simultaneously

United Nations Learning and Development http://www.un.org/staffdevelopment/viewpage.asp

Latitude: K-12 Horizon Report

http://www.nmc.org/publications/2012-horizon-report-k12

� Online learning, hybrid learning, collaborative models

� Resources & relationships via the Internet

� BYOD / BYOT

� Collaborate, communicate, create

� Challenge-based, active learning

Latitude: Learning landscape

� Thrive in multi-media environment

� Learn anytime anywhere

� Need flexibility

� Multi-tasking

� Enable internet reliance

� Enable social networking through internet

� Provide with simulations

� Provide with structured learning regardless of the form

� Connect me with everything

� Challenge me

� True team players




Latitude: Gamification

http://minecraftinschool.pbworks.com/

Latitude: 21st

century skills

http://atc21s.org/

Ways of thinking

1. Creativity & innovation

2. Critical thinking, problem solving, decision making

3. Learning to learn, metacognition

Ways of working

4. Communication

5. Collaboration (teamwork)

Tools for working

6. Information literacy

7. ICT literacy

Living in the world

8. Citizenship – local & global

9. Life and career

10. Personal & social responsibility – including cultural awareness & competence

Binkley M et al 2012 ‘Defining twenty-first century skills’, in Griffin, P McGaw, B & Care E (eds.),

Assessment and teaching of 21st

century skills, Springet, Dordrecht, Netherlands, pp. 18-19.

Destination Australia General capabilities

http://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/GeneralCapabilities/Overview/General-capabilities-in-the-

Australian-Curriculum

Community building

Have you asked your community?

� Collaborative models

� ‘Flipped library’




� Participatory culture

� Conversation theory

� 24/7 access

What physical and/or virtual spaces have you created to help students engage in conversation,

communication and collaboration?

http://wallwisher.com/wall/communityspaces

(Please leave your answer to the question at the link above)

Some examples:

http://wallwisher.com/

http://www.wikispaces.com/

http://pbworks.com/

http://www.edmodo.com/

http://edublogs.org/

Inquiry based learning

Kuhlthau, CC et al (2012) Guided Inquiry Design: A Framework for Inquiry in Your School,

Libraries Unlimited, Santa Barbara, California, p. 31.

� Catch attention

� Build background knowledge

� Explore ideas

� Articulate inquiry question

� Capture information

� What learned

� Reflect

Knowledge creation

� Search tools

� Data / note capture tools

� Multi-media creation tools

� Instruction

� Intervention




� Scaffold learning

What real-time processes and/or web based tools have you provided to help students engage

in inquiry learning, and to create & share their knowledge?

http://wallwisher.com/wall/knowledgecreation

(Please leave your answer to the question at the link above)

Some examples:

Search tools

http://www.instagrok.com/

http://duckduckgo.com/

http://quinturakids.com/

http://www.search-cube.com/

Data/note capture

https://bubbl.us/

http://www.text2mindmap.com/

http://www.pearltrees.com/

http://evernote.com/

Multi-media creation tools

http://www.voki.com/

http://edu.glogster.com/

http://infogr.am/

http://animoto.com/

http://prezi.com/

http://www.wordle.net/

http://voicethread.com/

http://www.techsmith.com/jing.html




What business are you in?

� Connections and not collections

� Customer centred and not information centred

� Service industry and not the library industry

“...the time is when a library is a school, and the librarian is the highest sense a teacher.”

(Melvil Dewey)

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