the unquiet library make the connection: learning to play,

playing to learn

presented by Buffy Hamilton

what’s the

connection between

learning and

play?

Image used under a Creative Commons license from http://www.flickr.com/photos/larimdame/3630728238/sizes/l/in/set-72157619795765502/

Image used under a Creative Commons license from http://www.flickr.com/photos/nlaunceford/2658082800/sizes/l/in/photostream/

the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold.”

Joseph Chilton Pearce

“play is the only way

“to live a

creative life, we must

lose our fear of

being wrong.” Joseph Chilton Pearce

Image used under a Creative Commons license from http://www.flickr.com/photos/these_are_mine/3709607592/sizes/l/

“life must be lived as

play.”Plato

This image used under a Creative Commons license from

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jamiecampbell/1231089294/sizes/l/

Image used under a Creative Commons license from http://www.flickr.com/photos/wrichard/3743686850/sizes/o/

the players: today’s learner the connected student

“we live in a web of

ideas, a fabric of

our own making.”

Joseph Chilton PearceImage used under a Creative Commons license from

http://www.flickr.com/photos/doyoubleedlikeme/2853091801/sizes/o/

how can your librarians help

students make the

connection between

learning and

play?Image used under a Creative Commons license from http://www.flickr.com/photos/larimdame/3629909927/sizes/l/in/set-72157619795765502/

change agents

information sherpas

learning architects

learning concierge

innovators

inspiration agentsteacherscollaboratorsambassadors of information fluency Image used under a Creative Commons liense from

http://www.flickr.com/photos/imageining/3629051925/sizes/l/

Image used under a Creative Commons license from

http://www.flickr.com/photos/urpix/2490469408/sizes/l/

the unquiet library: your playground for

learning

what are our bubbles of learning and

play for 2009-10?Image used under a Creative Commons license from

http://www.flickr.com/photos/spursfan_ace/887688143/sizes/l/

let’s explore a visual map of our bubble solution of learning and play

what is the essential element

of our bubble solution?

Image used under a Creative Commons license from http://www.flickr.com/photos/paveway/2942856928/sizes/l/

collaboration

Image used under Creative Commons license from

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tiarescott/3639844651/sizes/l/

what do research tasks without

collaboration and research pathfinders look like? Image used under a CC license

from http://www.flickr.com/photos/ebolasmallpox/295530974/sizes/l/

how do bubbles of learning change

with collaboration

andresearch

pathfinders?

Image used under a CC license from http://www.flickr.com/photos/audrix/1572151898/sizes/o/ /

when students have guidance in creating multiple

nodes in their personal learning network?

Image used a Create Commons license from http://www.flickr.com/photos/timo/23296368/sizes/l/

what happens when blowing bubbles of information fluency happens across the faculty? Image used under a CC license from

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ronaldhennessy/2602107714/

let’s build super bubbles of

learning and

playImage used under a Creative Commons license from

http://www.flickr.com/photos/floater81/3679792730/sizes/l/

not burst bubbles of learning by ignoring the shifts in the information and education landscape

Image used a Creative Commons license from http://www.flickr.com/photos/tz1_1zt/2605781548/sizes/l/in/set-72157605827938964/

we invite you and your students to

come learn

and play at the

unquiet library,

your library

Image used under a CC license from http://www.flickr.com/photos/bilbill/3712534323/sizes/l/in/pool-79254678@N00/

Acknowledgements

• Special thank you to Helene Blowers for allowing me to borrow her concept of bubbles and play.

• Resources to enhance today’s presentation: http://delicious.com/theunquietlibrary/faculty-orientation-ppt-july2009

• Mindomo Map of the 2009-10 Unquiet Library program, mission, goals, and initiatives.