Net Gen Learners and Libraries

1. Net Gen Learners and Libraries Joan K. Lippincott Coalition for Networked Information

2. Characteristics of Net Gen Students • Always connected, multitasking • Oriented to working in groups • Experiential learners • Visual • Producers as well as consumers ACRL/NY December 2, 2005

3. It’s About More than Style… It’s about learning ACRL/NY December 2, 2005

4. What type of learning? • “Deeper Learning” • Social • Active • Contextual • Engaging • Student-owned ACRL/NY December 2, 2005

5. 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_organization_and_services.html ACRL/NY December 2, 2005

6. Multi-media Figure it out Work in groups Multi-task Text-based Learn from experts Individually based Logical, linear Net Gen and Libraries: Disconnects Libraries Net Gen Students ACRL/NY December 2, 2005

7. Net Gen Students Are: Deeper Learning Is: ACTIVE EXPERIENTIAL ACRL/NY December 2, 2005

8. British Museum website ACRL/NY December 2, 2005

9. Poll students on your website ACRL/NY December 2, 2005

10. MOMA Poll ACRL/NY December 2, 2005

11. Global Probability Lesson ACRL/NY December 2, 2005

12. U. Alberta Library’s PDA Zone ACRL/NY December 2, 2005

13. Digital Chemistry at UC Berkeley ACRL/NY December 2, 2005

14. To encourage active learning, libraries can: • Introduce interactivity on library websites • Exploration via clicking on objects • Taking polls • Partner on national or global initiatives • Provide resources for PDAs or other mobile devices • Connect with interactive curricula being used at your institution ACRL/NY December 2, 2005

15. Net Gen Students Are: Deeper Learning Is: CONTEXTUAL LOCALLY OWNED PRODUCERS & CONSUMERS ACRL/NY December 2, 2005

16. Dartmouth Library ACRL/NY December 2, 2005

17. Student project at Santa Clara U. ACRL/NY December 2, 2005

18. USC Student Project ACRL/NY December 2, 2005

19. U. Minnesota Library’s Blog Service ACRL/NY December 2, 2005

20. GMU History Tools ACRL/NY December 2, 2005

21. U. Washington Digital Collections ACRL/NY December 2, 2005

22. To encourage student creation of information products, libraries can: • Provide multimedia production areas and services • Include IP discussions in information literacy programs • Host a blog service • Help users connect with tools for digital production • Help users find quality digital content that they can use in their productions ACRL/NY December 2, 2005

23. Net Gen Students Are: Deeper Learning Is: ENGAGED VISUAL ACRL/NY December 2, 2005

24. A different approach to library web pages at LAPL ACRL/NY December 2, 2005

25. Visual finding aid at the Tate ACRL/NY December 2, 2005

26. Mechanical Engineering Game at MIT ACRL/NY December 2, 2005

27. Second Life: Virtual World ACRL/NY December 2, 2005

28. Visualization tool at U. Hong Kong ACRL/NY December 2, 2005

29. UC Merced Library “The library will have a café and allow food and beverages in the stacks and reading areas…Large, flat-screen digital monitors may hang like picture frames on the walls, displaying information or images from the digitized special collections.” “The Birth of a Research University,” CHE, v.51, Issue 30, p. A24 ACRL/NY December 2, 2005

30. Virtual 3-D Models in the Library It is 2012 and most research libraries are now outfitted with real-time, immersive theaters…”Users of the theater feel as if they are right in the middle of the subject of their study - be it ancient Rome, the three stable members of the C2H4O Group of isotomers, the interacting galaxy NBC 4038/9 in Corvus, or the geological stratigraphy of Mars. At will, users can fly over Earth and, moving a time bar, set themselves down at any one of several hundred sites of great importance to humanity’s cultural history.” Bernard Frischer, The Ultimate Internet Café. CLIR, 2005 ACRL/NY December 2, 2005

31. To encourage engagement and visual orientation, libraries can: • Use more visual cues on library websites • Display images and graphics of digital information resources • Explore creation of or links to multimedia learning games • Get involved in virtual worlds • Provide data for visualization projects • House virtual, 3-D theaters ACRL/NY December 2, 2005

32. Net Gen Students Are: Deeper Learning Is: SOCIAL ALWAYS CONNECTED GROUP-ORIENTED ACRL/NY December 2, 2005

33. Dickinson College IC ACRL/NY December 2, 2005

34. Cox Center - Emory ACRL/NY December 2, 2005

35. Georgia Tech IC ACRL/NY December 2, 2005

36. U. Georgia Student Learning Center ACRL/NY December 2, 2005

37. To promote a social context for learning, libraries can: • Provide comfortable, informal spaces • Provide group study rooms • Install cafes ACRL/NY December 2, 2005

38. 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 ACRL/NY December 2, 2005

39. Comments and Discussion • Is the notion of Net Gen students a myth or hype? • Why shouldn’t students learn to use our sophisticated information systems? • What are some inexpensive ways to adapt to Net Gen preferences? • What examples can you add that illustrate new content, services, and environments tailored to Net Gen students? ACRL/NY December 2, 2005

40. Resources Educating the Net Gen Edited by Diana G. Oblinger and James L. Oblinger http://www.educause.edu/LibraryDetailPage/666&ID=pub7101 Colleen Carmean & Jeremy Haefner. “Mind Over Matter.” EDUCAUSE Review, vol 37, No. 6, Nov./Dec., 2002 http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/erm0261.pdf ACRL/NY December 2, 2005