Net Gen Learners and Libraries

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Net Gen Learners and Libraries

• Joan K. Lippincott
• Coalition for Networked Information

CALC Changing Cultures Summit June 1, 2007
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Does this worry you?

• Thinking of your information needs and lifestyle,
  which fits perfectly with your lifestyle?
• 64 Search engines
• 30 Online library
• 24 Library
• From OCLC College Students Perceptions of
  Libraries and Information Resources

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How can we reorient libraries

• Content
• Tools
• Services
• Environments

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To be more responsive to Net Gen students?
Indiana U. Info Commons
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What Does a Net Gen Student Look Like?
This?
http//www.flickr.com/photos/geopollock/25509844/
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Or this?
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Net Gen Students

• Born 1982-1991
• Grew up with computers and other media at home
  and in school from earliest ages
• Never were tethered to communication in a place

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Other Names

• Millennials
• Digital Natives
• Gen Y
• Next Gen
• DotNets (Pew Internet American Life)

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Characteristics of Net Gen Students

• Always connected, multi-tasking
• Oriented to working in groups
• Experiential learners
• Visual
• Producers as well as consumers

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Characteristics of Deeper Learning

• Deeper Learning
• Social
• Active
• Contextual
• Engaging
• Student-owned

Colleen Carmean Jeremy Haefner. Mind Over
Matter. EDUCAUSE Review, vol 37,No. 6,
Nov./Dec., 2002 http//www.educause.edu/ir/librar
y/pdf/erm0261.pdf
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Should We Rethink Libraries for Net Gen Students?
Brooklyn College Library MySpace Page
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We Can Choose to Transform

• Content
• Tools
• Services
• Environments

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Transforming Content
FROM
TO

• Linear
• Text-oriented
• Static

• Linked and Graphic
• Multimedia
• Interactive and Mobile

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U. Virginia Valley of the Shadow
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Cornells Mann Library
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Japanese Anime - Dartmouth
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Columbia U. CNMTL
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U. Alberta Librarys PDA Zone
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Article in Vectorshttp//vectors.iml.annenberg.ed
u/
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Transforming Systems, Tools
FROM
TO

• Receptive
• Query-based
• Highly structured
• Complex
• Owned, licensed

• Push
• Interactive
• New structures
• Simple
• Mixed, including freely available

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Lorcan Dempsey on Libraries
"So, unlike the major online presences, our
systems have low gravitational pull, they do not
put the user in control, they do not adapt
reflexively based on user behavior, they do not
participate fully in the network experience of
their users."
http//orweblog.oclc.org/archives/cat_libraries_or
ganization_and_services.html
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U. Minnesota Undergrad Page
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Map Collections Ticker
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iSpecies.org (R.Page, U. Glasgow)
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UPenn Business FAQ
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Open WorldCat Citation Styles
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Transforming Service Style
FROM
TO

• In the background
• Expert
• Library-focused
• Formal
• Textual

• Visible
• Trainer/Learner
• Collaborative
• Informal
• Visual

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MIT Stata Center
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Cornell Mann Library
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VCU Commons Information Kiosk
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Dartmouth RWIT Center for Research, Writing IT
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Vassar Media Cloisters
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UIUC Undergrad Library Facebook
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PennTags Social Bookmarking
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Blending In-person and Virtual
"Social networking sites like The Facebook are
quickly blurring the line between online and
real-world interactions. While most adults still
separate their virtual existence from their
real-world lives, college kids are increasingly
living in both worlds at once. Erika Lewis,
Carleton College student from her Podcast script
for a class "We Media The Personal Media
Revolution http//www.people.carleton.edu/lewise
r/PodcastScript.htm
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Info Island in Second Life
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NCSU Learning Commons eBoards
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New Styles for Information Literacy

• Training student instructors or coaches
• Encouraging group activities, exploration
• Embedding materials, services in CMS
• Becoming a virtual presence in CMS
• Offering more online tutorials
• Using simulations, games, virtual world
  environments

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Who is teaching your students about

• Statistical analysis software
• GIS software
• Multi-media software
• Visualization
• Use of digital libraries
• Use of large scientific data sets
• Information standards and preservation
• Policy issues related to information and
  technology

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Henry Jenkins - MIT

• Among his core skills
• Simulation - the ability to interpret and
  construct dynamic models of real world processes
• Appropriation - the ability to meaningfully
  sample and remix media content
• Multitasking - the ability to scan ones
  environment and shift focus as needed to salient
  details

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Henry Jenkins - MIT

• Selected core skills
• Collective Intelligence - the ability to pool
  knowledge and compare notes with others toward a
  common goal
• Judgment - the ability to evaluate the
  reliability and credibility of different
  information resources
• Networking - the ability to search for,
  synthesize, and disseminate information

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Transforming Environments
FROM
TO

• Individual
• Access-oriented
• Formal
• Physical

• Group
• Access Production
• Relaxed
• Physical/virtual

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U. Mass. Amherst Learning Commons
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U. Delaware Student Multi-media Design Center
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GroupSpace with TeamSpot at Stanford U. Meyer
Library
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UNC Health Sciences Display Wall
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U. Delaware Student Multi-media Design Center
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Multi-media Stations at Ga. Tech
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ASU Downtown Information Commons
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Cox Center - Emory
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NCSU Learning Commons Photo Austin Dowd, NCSU
Student Media
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Georgia Tech Commons
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Georgia Tech Learning Commons
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Cornell Mann Library
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U. Georgia Student Learning Center
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Dartmouth News Center
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U. Puget Sound Science on Display
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Visualization at Seattle PL
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U. Tennessee bioLIBlog
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UPenn Library Mashup Contest
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Georgia TechPractice Presentation Room
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Accomplishing Change

• Hiring new types of staff
• Training existing staff
• Working in teams with students
• Reverse mentoring
• Experimenting, piloting
• Adopting, adapting
• Doing research, assessment
• Letting go

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The Net Gen Are Our Future

• Assist students with making the transition from
  the recreational use of technology to academic
  use of technology
• Provide environments, physical and virtual, which
  engage students
• Promote creativity in students
  discipline-related work

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Credits

• Photos include web captures, photos from my
  collection and some supplied to me by
  institutions, and from
• Joanne Hennings website on I.C.
• http//jhenning.law.uvic.ca

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Resources
Educating the Net Gen Edited by Diana G. Oblinger
and James L. Oblinger
http//www.educause.edu/LibraryDetailPage/666IDp
ub7101
Learning Spaces Edited by Diana G.
Oblinger http//www.educause.edu/LearningSpaces
Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Cultur
e Media Education for the 21st Century. Henry
Jenkins et. al. MacArthur Foundation,
2006. www.digitallearning.macfound.org