Transcript New Directions for Net Gen Learners and Libraries Joan K. Lippincott Coalition for Networked Information ACRL WSS ALA Annual 2007

New Directions for Net Gen
Learners and Libraries
Joan K. Lippincott
Coalition for Networked Information
ACRL WSS ALA Annual 2007
Why New Directions?
Changes in student behaviors - Net Gen
Students
Understandings of learning principles
and styles
Availability of new technologies
What Does a Net Gen Student
Look Like?
This?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/geopollock/25509844/
Or this?
Net Gen Students
Born 1982-1991
Grew up with computers and other
media at home and in school from
earliest ages
Never were tethered to communication
in a place
Other Names…
Millennials
Digital Natives
Gen Y
Next Gen
DotNets (Pew Internet & American Life)
Characteristics of Net Gen
Students
Always connected, multi-tasking
Oriented to working in groups
Experiential learners
Visual
Producers as well as consumers
Characteristics of Deeper Learning
“Deeper Learning”
Social
Active
Contextual
Engaging
Student-owned
Colleen Carmean & Jeremy Haefner.
“Mind Over Matter.” EDUCAUSE Review, vol 37,No. 6, Nov./Dec., 2002
http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/erm0261.pdf
Implications for Learning and
Libraries
Assume students are information
producers
Broaden students’ exposure to
information and tools for their discipline
Assist students in understanding
information policy issues
Changing focus
Students as information seekers
Students as information producers
Convergence of literacies
Written literacy
Information literacy
Technology literacy
Visual literacy
MacArthur Foundation Project
Henry Jenkins - MIT
Selected core skills
Collective Intelligence - the ability to pool
knowledge and compare notes with others
toward a common goal
Judgment - the ability to evaluate the
reliability and credibility of different
information resources
Networking - the ability to search for,
synthesize, and disseminate information
Henry Jenkins - MIT
Among his core skills:
Multitasking - the ability to scan one’s
environment and shift focus as needed to
salient details
Simulation - the ability to interpret and
construct dynamic models of real world
processes
Appropriation - the ability to meaningfully
sample and remix media content
New T&L Partnerships
Center for Teaching and Learning
New Media Center
Instructional Technology Group
Film or Multimedia Studies Dept.
Columbia U. CNMTL
Georgetown CNDLS
Dartmouth RWIT: Center for
Research, Writing & IT
New Resources
Tools to facilitate collaborative work
Facilities for production of content
Facilities for practicing presentations
PennTags Social Bookmarking
GroupSpace with TeamSpot at
Stanford U. Meyer Library
U. Delaware Student Multi-media
Design Center
Georgia Tech
Practice Presentation Room
Changing focus
Teaching about access to library
resources
Teaching about access to information
and tools
Data for Visualization
Webcast Offerings at UC
Berkeley
Research Channel Videos
U. Washington and Wikipedia
Georgetown U. Portal for
Community-Based Research
GMU History Tools
Displaying information and
projects
Providing visual cues to the information
resources available
Displaying what students and faculty can
create with information resources
Cornell’s Mann Library
Japanese Anime - Dartmouth
NCSU Learning Commons
eBoards
Changing focus
Teaching about policies as rules
Fostering policy awareness and
discussion
Bucknell Professor’s Film on IP
Uses Parody of Disney Films to
Illustrate Principles
UPenn Library Mashup Contest
In Conjunction with Free Culture
Creative Commons Licensing
Cornell’s Thoughts on Facebook
Engaging Students
Methods
Online tutorials
Online games, contests
Social networking sites
Students collect resources prior to class and
jointly critique
Simulations
Services and instruction in virtual worlds
Library Online Tutorials at TWU
UIUC Undergrad Library
Facebook
Info Island in Second Life
U. Tennessee bioLIBlog
Supporting materials
FAQs
Guides, links, and services in CMS
Podcasts
Wikis or blogs developed by students or
TAs
UPenn Business FAQ
Challenges
Faculty
Interest in inserting these skills in their
curriculum
Willingness to collaborate
Acceptance of new forms of student
projects
Development of grading rubrics for new
forms of expression
Challenges
Librarians
Broadening conception of information
literacy
Convergence of literacies
Overall service program, not just classes
Engagement in collaborative learning
Development of new skills
Promoting services to faculty
Transforming Information Literacy
FROM
In-class
Expert
Highly structured
Complex
Focus on owned,
licensed items
TO
Push
Collaborative
New structures
Simple
Mixed, including freely
available
Accomplishing Change
Re-examine service goals
Talk with faculty and students
Collaborate with faculty and campus units
Work in teams with students
Experiment, pilot
Adopt, adapt
Do research, assessment
Let go…
The Net Gen Are Our Future
Assist students with making the
transition from the recreational use of
technology to academic use of
technology
Provide environments, physical and
virtual, which engage students
Promote creativity in students’ disciplinerelated work
Credits
Photos include web captures, photos
from my collection and some supplied to
me by institutions
Resources
Educating the Net Gen
Edited by Diana G. Oblinger and James L.
Oblinger
http://www.educause.edu/LibraryDetailPage/666&ID=pub7101
Confronting the Challenges of Participatory
Culture: Media Education for the 21st
Century. Henry Jenkins et. al. MacArthur
Foundation, 2006.
www.digitallearning.macfound.org
Contact: [email protected]