the unquiet library make the connection: learning to play,
playing to learn
presented by Buffy Hamilton
what’s the
connection between
learning and
play?
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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
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“life must be lived as
play.”Plato
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the players: today’s learner the connected student
“we live in a web of
ideas, a fabric of
our own making.”
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how can your librarians help
students make the
connection between
learning and
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change agents
information sherpas
learning architects
learning concierge
innovators
inspiration agentsteacherscollaboratorsambassadors of information fluency Image used under a Creative Commons liense from
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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
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let’s explore a visual map of our bubble solution of learning and play
what is the essential element
of our bubble solution?
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collaboration
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what do research tasks without
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how do bubbles of learning change
with collaboration
andresearch
pathfinders?
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when students have guidance in creating multiple
nodes in their personal learning network?
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let’s build super bubbles of
learning and
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not burst bubbles of learning by ignoring the shifts in the information and education landscape
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we invite you and your students to
come learn
and play at the
unquiet library,
your library
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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.