Shots in the dark?Information Literacy in the 21st century

Peter GodwinUniversity of Bedfordshire

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Shots in the dark?

Where I’m coming from Other literacies? What is Information Literacy anyway? Meeting our 21st century users New opportunities with Web 2.0 And with Mobiles? No more shots in the dark

The Pods at UBProject Hall Staff Room

IT area

Relaxation loungeBrainstorm room

Boardroom

UoB LSBU The book

Discuss and select

keywordsAdvise on type of

information found

Demonstrate databases

Search tips

Peter Godwin and Jo Parker, editors Information Literacy Meets Library 2.0

All the literaciesMedia literacy IT literacy Information literacy Language literacy Visual

literacy E literacy Emotional literacy

Information fluency I-skills Information skills

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Media literacy

the ability to access, analyze, evaluate, and produce communication and information in a variety of forms and means.

Digital literacy

Performing tasks in a digital environment

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The death of librarianship?

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What is Information Literacy?“Information literacy is the adoption of

appropriate information behaviour to identify through whatever channel or medium, information well fitted to information needs, leading to wise and ethical use of information in society.”

(Sheila Webber and Bill Johnston)

SCONUL Seven Pillars framework

SCONUL 7 Pillars Recognising need for information Distinguishing sources and access Constructing search strategies Locating and accessing Comparing & evaluating Organising, applying and communicating Synthesising and adding new knowledge

CIBER report(2008)

Information behaviour of the researcher of the future.

London: University College London.CIBER Briefing paper; 9.

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The MEGO effect! “Most instructors have

stood in front of a class only to wonder if their only purpose on that day was to serve as a sedative for the majority of the class.”

Payne, et al (2006)

My eyes glaze over

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Somebody has been telling her “about” the Library!

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Web 2.0RSS feeds Wikis Blogs Mashups Podcasting Tagging Vodcasting flickr del.icio.us MySpace YouTube Instant messaging

New chances of reaching them

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RSS

ConvenienceCollaborative

SharingKinesthetic

Blogs

ReflectiveCreative

DiscussiveEngaging

CollaborativeKinesthetic

Research 2.0: Research Blogs as Windows of OpportunityOlivia Reinauer, Social Sciences Librarian, University of RichmondTerry Dolson, Faculty Development Specialist, University of Richmond

CreativeCollaborative

SharingKinesthetic

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Wikis

Wiki-ing Your Way into Collaborative LearningMolly Beestrum, and Kenneth Orenic, Dominican University, Illinois

 Using Wikis in English 102

We designed some simple assignments to acclimatise students to wiki use.

Wikipedia

CreativeShows a process

Critical thinkingCollaborativeKinesthetic

Sarah who?

Flickr

VisualKinestheticCreative

CollaborativeKeywords

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VisualAuditoryKinesthetic

Shows processTrigger for discussion

CreativeCollaborative

YouTube

Instruction

Showing a process

Trigger for discussion

delicious

SharingKeywords

Critical thinkingCreative

Collaborative Visual

Kinesthetic

Tagging

KeywordsVisual

Kinesthetic

Pen marker

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Facebook

CreativeCollaboration

VisualAuditoryKinesthetic

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Blackboard CourseFeed

Are you on Facebook?

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Visual tools and OPACs

VisualKinesthetic

Active

LibraryThingCollaborativeSharingKinesthetic

Screencasting, podcasting and vodcasting

Shows processConvenience

CreativeAuditoryVisual

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Instant messaging

ConvenienceKinesthetic

Instant messaging

Second Life

ActivePersonalVisual

Kinesthetic

Reference Desks in Second Life

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What’s next? But…..

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4.1 billion mobile subscriptions in the world by end of 2008 That’s 61.1% of the global population.

By end of 2008 335m mobile broadband subscribers.14% in developed world, and 1% in developing world.

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23% of 6.7 billion use the internet

But what does this mean for us?

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Count the iPhones

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Screencasting, podcasting and vodcasting

Shows processConvenience

CreativeAuditoryVisual

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iTunes U

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QR codes

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But cell phones are hard

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Limitations

Variations and capabilities of types of devices Speed Costs Need for Bluetooth and more joined up Wi-Fi

access

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OPAC (M)Dbases (M)Podcasts

SMSBasic guides

E-books, ToursSMS, OPAC

Dbases, PodcastsGuides, QR codes

OPACPodcasts

Basic guidesText documents

Web 2.0 tools and mobiles can help us do this

and to counter the mego effect

We should seek to change their habits

and help to improve the quality of their questions

Librarians go wild

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