Sharing info thru the Web…One Web App @ a Time
I presented yesterday at the 2015 NEKLS Innovation Day, “Learning @ Your Library: Empowering your community to learn”. It was a new presentation, expanding on the Open Education Resources introductory sessions I’ve led over the last few years for school librarians and teachers.
The presentation focused on the idea that libraries (public, particularly) are the perfect organization to be facilitating learning for all ages, Continue reading “Learning at Your Library presentation”
About his library system: Hartford has been circulating video games for over 10 years; {more info on kids services} sneak in the learning (educational games and puzzles); American Girl Dolls (phantom collection — 113 of them; are always all out); STEM, Little Leapers take home science kits; Learn, Explore and Play kits (LEAP); Give them a robot (programming) — Finch robots; Innovation Lab; a lot of new things are being done at HCPL. Guinea pig, test a lot of projects for companies.
“All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy”
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virtual presentation by Paul Signorelli (assisted virtually by Maurice Coleman)
Google Hangouts, Skype
Don’t always work perfectly, but when they work, they work great!
Google Hangouts: 1) regular video hangout (what was used in this session); need a google account of some kind, initiate hangout in the moment. Downside is technical issues. 2) Hangout “on air”. Scheduled in advance, system generates invite, recorded, and auto-archived, and generated on YouTube channel.
NEKLS Innovation Day 2015 Keynote {live-blogged; please forgive any grammar mistakes or errors}
AnnMarie Thomas, Associate Professor of Engineering, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN. Former director of MakerEducation (great resource for projects).
Stop playing around and get to work. The play is what’s important in the learning process.
AnnMarie is known around the globe for Squishy circuits project. Sugar playdoh has 1,000 times the resistance of salted playdoh. It was a project for her kids. Pictures, videos, recipes. 6 continents are using squishy circuits. Used all over the globe. TED Talk
Library: Place, Community, Learning
How are we framing the nuanced challenges of improving local life conditions for literacy? (e.g. role of food; insights from brain science)
The USAF is exploring the development of a Social Radar dashboard… to aggregate sensor and sentiment data in order to forecast what’s coming.
What is unique about your local community? What dynamics might be missing to reach its full potential? What are gaps that exist?
Many areas, it’s hard to keep people local. People leave to do things elsewhere in larger communities.
Library as Third Place
Retooling –> Perception Gap
Poverty is growing in suburbs; many reasons why. Perception gap of the conditions.
Lots of different angles on local.
Why does retooling local communities matter? Capturing the Local Economic Premium
Louisville, KY
Milwaukee, WI — 3.24* more.Â
Understanding communities & institutions at crossroads: Knight Soul of the Community project
Building Connections: Social graphs — the pattern of social relationships between people (direct/indirect/social link/person)
Emergence of ‘Citizen’ Tools — Project Noah
Does the library promote this? Add it to the collection
What kinds of citizen tools can you create? Marine Debris Tracker
Civicware: Engagement & Data-driven insights —
These are applications that are being built in communities that inform individuals that inform citizens about civic participation throughout their communities.
Role of Reference: Libraries and Local Dashboard — what’s getting better/worse — color coded
Does the information exist? What institution would be responsible for pulling it all together? The library? Trusted institution. Closing perception gap; showing interconnectedness.
How might dashboards empower entrepreneurs, citizens and/or policy-makers?
Even if you can’t do data dashboard, go to other sources to get data understanding of your community.
The Collaborative economy Coalition
Anticipating Pull & Push Factors of Economic Localization: The New Innovation Battlegrounds are city hill and the state house
Is the library a place that should promote the local economy? Libraries play an active role in building community awareness on key indicators driving quality of life and the economy and/or libraries actively support collaborative economy activities.
Technology creates the capabilities that create the social change. Tech is enabler of social change.
The Geo-Web: Location-based Services
Helping people find books?
Community experiences & transformation of place: guest lecture tonight; on my way to the library then home; starting a local reading group; join me, photographing city; play date at playground.
Creating reference services based off of location?
How do we leverage place-based discovery and sharing?
Michael Chabon’s Telegraph Avenue
Strategy: Local Discovery-based Learning Experiences
LIbrary Layers: unique content…
Retooling Local Places:
Learning Art of Process & Relationships
What role do libraries play on the policy side? We provide resources to communities. If the self-interest of the community vs the company interests conflict, what do we do?
How big is local? Region? Neighborhood? Town. It’s geographical. Larger than a square block.