We all love reading! Where would we be without it?
If you follow my tracks through the blogosphere or the Twitterverse, then you know how much I enjoy library gatherings. Although I’m a technologist (don’t really like that term), in many ways, I enjoy library conferences more than those focused on technology. Specifically in education, but in other realms as well, I feel that we would get further in making progress by adapting to the changing information environment instead of focusing exclusively on the changes in technology.
I will be suggesting that rather than integrate technology, that we integrate literacy into education — but that we redefine what it means to be literate when information is increasingly networked, digital, and abundant. If teachers and librarians are work to teach, learn, and work within networked, digital, and abundant information, then the associated technologies may be better utilized.
I will also be doing a breakout on what is sometimes called personal learning networks. The approach I am take more and more these days is comparing a fast food approach to learning to a gardener’s approach to learning. See this blog entry for more explanation.
Virtual worlds will be the topic of another breakout session. It seems to me that MUVEs may be of particular interest to librarians, as it is about building navigable arraignments of information — which is what libraries are.
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