Transcript What if the “wisdom of crowds” turns out to be the

Information Lust
Paul Gandel
Syracuse University
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Technology Landscape
Continues to Astound and Challenge
At the threshold of almost unlimited
possibilities:
– We can expect to see computing power and
bandwidth continue to increase into the
foreseeable future
– New tools for analysis and collaboration
– Seemingly unlimited capacity to collect and store
information digitally
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No S Curve in the Future!
• Technology continues to grow exponentially
• Predictability is uncertain
• How do you engage in this huge flow
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Key Technology Trends
New Digital Infrastructure
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Clouds
Mobility
E-Readers
Social Networks
Gaming
Human Analytics
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The Nature of Clouds
• Makes computing and storage
– Virtual and almost infinitely expandable
– Takes true advantage of economies of scale
• Our computing environment truly become
ubiquitous—we can keep it with us constantly
• Pay as you go for infrastructure
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More Mobility
More functionality
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Phone-WiFi, Bluetooth
Notebook to Netbooks
E-Readers, Kindle, i-Pad
Smart Pens
Mobile Devices have weaved themselves into
the very fabric of the very essence of our
everyday life.
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Social Networks
• Facebook Growth—over 400 million users
• LinkedIn 30 million users
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Sharing thoughts and images!
Flicker --- over 3 billion photos!
YouTube—ubiquitous
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Collective Information
Gathering, Organizing, Mashing
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Wikipedia
Folksonomies
Blogs
Mashups
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Real Organizations are Going Virtual
JIVE
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The Changing Nature of
Information Gathering
“In Schmidt's vision, Google will
search before you even ask”
Computer World, Sept, 2010
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Changing the Face of the Search
Google Googles
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Human Analytics
Search Inversion
(source Stephen Saunders—Info-week, June 21, 2010)
• Internet is no longer just a useful tool for users
to search for information
• Internet becomes a tool for companies to
search for user profiles
• Instead of people searching for information—
search information or user profiles for people
• User profiles become the “information.”
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Gaming
• From Packman to Warcraft
• The median age of gamers is
now past 30!
• Large diversity of platforms—
can be played on many mobile
devices.
• Industry size comparable to
the music industry
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The Evolving Teaching and
Research Paradigms in an EEverything World
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Teaching and Learning
Evidence-Based
Authentic
Experiential
Portfolio-Based
Ill-Defined
Diversity of Outcomes
Participatory
Reflective
Problem-Based
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Learning Environments
Collaborative/Participatory
Virtual labs and simulations
Playgrounds!
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Learn by Harnessing the “crowd”
From “clicker” to “mobile device”
Using social tools
Building multiple connections
“Life lines” are constant
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E-Curriculum
From Push to Pull
From the explicit to the tacit—from learning
about to learning to be…
From formal to more informal learning
The end of the self-contained course
Source: Hagel III, Brown, & Davidison, The Power of the Pull
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Authentic Learning
Evidence Based
From Facebook to E-Portfolios
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The Challenge of “Pull”
What?
Where?
How?
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The Challenge for the Instructor
• How to manage and gather the “Flow.”
– Example: 100 people in a class—potentially 100
discussion threads.
• How to THINK! And Reflect!
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E-Science and Scholarship
Unlimited opportunities
New tools, new ways of seeing the world
Collaborative
Enable scientist to imagine the unimaginable
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But Limited by Possibilities!
Powerful cyber-research tools are too complex
to be run solely by scientist.
In the new world of massive-scale computing,
professional information technology, it is
difficult and sometimes impossible for
researchers to identify the most effective
analytical tools, data sets, and other resources
to best achieve research skills.
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And…..
Where to we keep all the stuff?
How do we remember?
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The “flow” of opportunity for libraries
and information professional…
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Stop Complaining and…
Embrace Change
Challenge the norm
Manage the flow
Add value….
– Time
– $$$$$
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What if the “wisdom of crowds”
turns out to be
the “ignorance of the masses?”
A Perfect Opportunity!
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Partner in …
New forms of learning
Scholarship
Creating new avenues of scholarly
communication
Preserving the dialogue
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Learning
Beyond information literacy to information fluency
New modes for accessing and participating in the
dialogue of learning
Actively collaborate with student and faculty
Portfolio Management
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Creating Learning Spaces…
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Study Spaces
Classrooms
Gaming Studios
Quiet Spaces!
Make Spaces Compelling!
And Don’t Forget Virtual Spaces!
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Making E-Scholarship Work
In the new world of massive-scale
computing, professional information
technology facilitators are needed to work
with researchers to identify the most
effective analytical tools, data sets, and
other resources to best achieve research
skills.
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Pull Everything!
Get beyond the print vs. electronic wars!
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Research Engagement
Explore new models for social networking to
promote engagement, mobility and
sustainability…..And Authentic Scholarship!
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It’s a Flat World
Design new systems for exchange of information
New policy models for new federations
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Organizing Information
To remember and preserve....
and to measure….
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New world of publishing…
Understanding new emerging
economic models for
scholarly exchange of ideas
Be part of the solution and dialogue
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New Ways of Organizing
Libraries as Networked Organizations
The Embedded Librarian—
Have skills will travel
physically and virtually!
The “team” approach
Virtual presence as well as
physical presence
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New Leadership
The Scholarship of Scholarship and Learning!
Sense Making!
Contingency as the Norm…
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Becoming Results Oriented
Define outcomes in the context of institutional
mission
Identify opportunities for real impact
Measure results!
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Key Skills..for a new world..
Enable collaboration
Collect data
Manage and store data
Communicate data
Design (information/data
systems)
Training
Use the data for analysis
purposes
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New Vision
– Forge links between people, information, and tools in
order to expose, mine, and process the mountains of
scientific and research data.
– Create information systems to integrate the
communication, collaboration and data management
facilities to bond researchers
– Understand the importance of subject matter
expertise
– Work with researchers, faculty and students as
partners
– Facilitate collaboration for distributed groups via
collaborative tools.
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The challenge
Innovate and change…
Wisely and continuously
Thanks!
[email protected]
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