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2.0Musings on Web 2.0, Generation Yand College Readiness

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My background


• Schools and Staffing Survey, 2003-04– 52,419,400 students

– 3,722,000 teachers

– 116,655 schools

– 97,275 librarians

– 78,411 libraries


• Academic Libraries Survey, 2006– 14,203,705 students

– 26,469 librarians

– 3,617 libraries


• School Libraries

– 33% schools without libraries

– 1.2 librarians per library

– 539 students per librarian

– 38 teachers per librarian

• Academic Libraries

– 7.3 librarians per library

– 536 students per librarian


Academic Librariesvs. the World Wide Web


Academic Librariesvs. the World Wide Web

Information Literacy Defined

Information literacy is a set of abilities requiring individuals to "recognize when information is needed and have the ability to locate, evaluate, and use effectively the needed information."

Information literacy also is increasingly important in the contemporary environment of rapid technological change and proliferating information resources. Because of the escalating complexity of this environment, individuals are faced with diverse, abundant information choices--in their academic studies, in the workplace, and in their personal lives. Information is available through libraries, community resources, special interest organizations, media, and the Internet--and increasingly, information comes to individuals in unfiltered formats, raising questions about its authenticity, validity, and reliability.

In addition, information is available through multiple media, including graphical, aural, and textual, and these pose new challenges for individuals in evaluating and understanding it. The uncertain quality and expanding quantity of information pose large challenges for society. The sheer abundance of information will not in itself create a more informed citizenry without a complementary cluster of abilities necessary to use information effectively.


Enter Generation Y...The Millennials

25 years old!


Enter Generation Y...The Millennials

● Freedom of choice and expression

● Customization and personalization

● Transparency

● Values and integrity

● Play and interactivity

• Collaboration and relationships

• Speed of communication

• Innovation


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kra_z9vMnHo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kra_z9vMnHo


• My class size is 115.

• 18% of my teachers know my name.

• I will complete 49% of the assigned readings.

• I will read 8 books, 2,300 Web pages and 1,281 Facebook profiles this year.

• I will write 42 pages for class and over 500 pages of e-mail this semester.

• When I graduate, I will have a job that doesn't exist today.

Filling this out won't get me there.


College Readiness

• Lack of critical thinking skills

• Lack of citation skills and plagiarism

• Failure to use credible, authoritative information sources

• Lack of depth to research and analysis

• Lack of writing skills


Academic Librariesvs. Web 2.0


The Groundswell

A framework for how to create success in the groundswell based on the four steps in what we call the POST method:

– P = profile (what are your patrons doing in the groundswell?)

– O = objectives (what are you trying to accomplish?)

– S = strategy (how are you trying to change your relationship with patrons?)

– T = technology (what social technologies will you use?)

If your social strategy starts with the T, you're doing it backwards!


Credibility, Authority, Citation and Plagiarism

• Breast Milk: The Other White MilkGrass roots activist vs. The National Pork Board


"Remember who buys the groceries in nearly 90% of the households in the US. You just started a fight with them! Is that how your industry members--pork suppliers--expect you to represent their interests?"


"Laptops closed!"


The Experiment

"'We were led to the conclusion,' they wrote, 'that the five-year olds in the toys group were attending quite strategically, distributing their attention between toy play and viewing so that they looked at what for them were the most informative parts of the program.'"

- The Tipping Point


The School 2.0 – 7 Tips

• Don't throw technology into the classroom and hope for good things.

• Cut back on lecturing.

• Empower students to collaborate.

• Focus on lifelong learning, not teaching to the test.

• Use technology to get to know each student.

• Design educational programs according to the eight norms.

• Reinvent yourself as a teacher, professor or educator.


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