WHEN EVERYONE HAS A LIBRARY IN THEIR POCKET OR IN THEIR BAG, WHAT IS THE NEW ROLE OF THE TEACHER LIBRARIAN IN THE 21ST CENTURY? “Change doesn’t care if you like it or not!” (Anders Sorman-Nilsson, 2011)
1. When everyone has a library in their pocket or in their bag,
what is the new role of the Teacher Librarian in the 21st
Century?
Change doesnt care if you like it or not!
(Anders Sorman-Nilsson, 2011)
2. Views from the revolution
Generally learners:
are not good curators
are not good resource managers
are not good searchers
do not understand metadata
do not understand the cloud or the semantic web
are not able to assess source credibility
are not able to assess veracity
think a LMS will save them, up until it doesnt
confuse digital citizenship with cybersafety
3. Classroom technology
4. Students world
5. What do these companies have in common?
6. What is your context?
http://bit.ly/SRTL2011
7. When everyone has a library in their pocket or in their bag,
what is the new role of the Teacher Librarian in the 21st
Century?
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting
different results.
Albert Einstein
8. Im against it
9. I encourage students to use a range of technology in
myLibrary?
Students would like to use technology in their learning?
I would like my own children to utilise technology in their
education?
I own a mobile phone with internet/email access?
If there is a difference between #1 and #2, then there is tension
in the classroom - the students want to use technology whereas the
teacher doesn't.
If #1 is more than #3 then we have a moral issue - teachers want
their own children to utilise technology in their classrooms but do
not want to undertake such practices in their own classroom with
other people's children that they as teachers have responsibility
for regarding their education.
Quick survey
10. 3 important questions (that no one at Cobb & Co et al
asked)
What does a Teacher Librarian/Library offer that technology
cannot
How can a Teacher Librarian/Library meaningfully value add
technology
What skills/services do a Teacher Librarian/Library poses that
teachers & students want (conscious incompetence) or need
(unconscious incompetence)
11. What is the effect in classrooms?
Non-routine interactive
Non-routine analytic
Routine manual
Routine cognitive
Non-routine manual
learner
The dilemma of the school:
The skills that are easiest to teach and test are also the ones
that are easiest to digitize, automate, and outsource
Economy-wide measures of routine and non-routine task input
(U.S.)
Professor Linda Darling Hammond
12. Ask questions that cant be answered by google
13. reforming learning spaces
Transport & Communication/Information
Classroom
http://www.floorplanner.com/
14. Digital literacy?
15. Professional learning network
16. Digital citizenship
17. 1:1 laptop programs, PDHPE and levelling up
Ben Jones [email protected]
Twitter: @benpaddlejones
http://benpaddlejones.edublogs.org/