Steve G. Steinberg Febuary 1997LIFESTREAMSToday,
our view of cyberspace is shaped by a 20-year-old metaphor in which ﬁles are documents,documents are organized into folders, and all arelittered around the ﬂatland known as the desktop.Lifestreams takes a completely different approach:instead of organizing by space, it organizes bytime. It is a diary rather than a desktop.http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/5.02/fflifestreams.html?pg=1&topic=&topic_set=
David Gelernter February 2013This LIFESTREAM
— aheterogeneous, content-searchable,real-time messaging stream — arrivedin the form of blog posts and RSSfeeds, Twitter and other chatstreams,and Facebook walls and timelines.
David Gelernter February 2013Today, the
most important function ofthe internet is to deliver the latestinformation, to tell us what’s happeningright now. Whether tweet or timeline,all are time-ordered streams designedto tell you what’s new.
Time-to-Adoption Horizon: One Year or
Less •Cloud Computing •Mobile Learning Time-to-Adoption Horizon: Two to Three Years •Learning Analytics •Open Content Time-to-Adoption Horizon: Four to Five Years •3D Printing •Virtual and Remote LaboratoriesHorizon Report 2013
The Ethnographic Research in Illinois
Academic Libraries (ERIAL) Project, a two-year study of the student research process involving five US universities, included extensive interviews with students, librarians and other academics in an effort to better understand 21st century student research habits.cc licensed ( BY NC SA ) ﬂickr photo by Stuck in Customs: http://ﬂickr.com/photos/stuckincustoms/6756753669/
“The students surveyed often lookedin
journals or databases unsuited totheir ﬁeld of study and displayed apoor understanding of how to reﬁnesearch results”. “While the interface of Google and other similar search engines might be more intuitive, what’s going on behind the scenes isn’t intuitive at all, and very few students had a clear conception of how search engines work. This lack of understanding compounds the problem of building an effective search strategy.”
What’s the story with the
yellow blotch? SearchReSearch bloghttp://searchresearch1.blogspot.com.au/2013/01/wednesday-search-challenge-11613-whats.html
Search can be fast without
necessarily being intelligent.cc licensed ( BY NC SD ) ﬂickr photo by Έλενα Λαγαρία: http://ﬂickr.com/photos/29393867@N07/3161212158/
When a technology focus subverts
students’ conversation and development of critical thinking skills (and their ability to evaluate and analyse the information at hand), the mental processes that change knowledge from information to concept are not learned.Bomar, S. (2010). A School-Wide Instructional Framework for Evaluating Sources. Knowledge Quest, 38(3), 72-75.
By demonstrating how to connect
adatabase information repository (suchas EBSCO, Gale, or JStor) or a locallibrary service with Google Scholar, weare helping students broaden thescope of their information seeking,while at the same time refining thequality of the information response. Database tutorials Advanced search training
Wolfram|Alpha is a free online
computationalknowledge engine that generates answers toquestions in real time by doing computations on itsown vast internal knowledge base.http://www.wolframalpha.com/educators/
Searcher Behaviour - new study
highlights that:•40% of searching activity is shopping•65% dont click on ads (or say they dont)•50%ads from regular searchdifferentiate the who click on ads cant resultsSearch Engine Showdown http://searchengineshowdown.com/2013/04/searcher-behavior/
Deciphering student search behaviour OCLC
research: learning motivations and information-seeking behaviours across education stagesWhite, D.S., and Connaway, L.S. 2011. Visitors and Residents: What Motivates Engagement with the DigitalInformation Environment.www.oclc.org/research/activities/vandr
Deciphering student search behaviourInformation-seeking behaviours
are convergingacross personal and institutional spheres, as acombined effect of the social web, cloud-basedapplications and the multi-tab environment.He observes: ‘A lot of the students we intervieweddo their research on Wikipedia or syllabus-basedwebsites and have an adjacent tab open onFacebook. They ﬂit between the two, occupyingpersonal and institutional spaces simultaneously,and gather information from outside the institutionalcontext as well as within it.’
Characteristics of a successful student
Create a community Collaborate with peers Diligent with deadlines Look for and leverage tools Tools to optimize learning Critical thinking via knowledge networks
[learning] self Personal web tools
– used for tracking our life and powering our information organisation e.g. photos to Facebook, pictures to Flickr, photos to Twitter.Social recommendation services- Amazon, Book Depository
[learning] self Personal learning environment
– relying on the people we connect with through social networks and collaborative tools e.g. Twitter, Yammer. Personal learning network – knowing where or to whom to connect and find professional content.
[learning] self Cloud computing -
utilising open access between sources and devices e.g. Edmodo, Evernote, Diigo.Mixed reality – adopting e-devices andaugmented reality e.g. ebooks, QRcodes,Layar browser.Content curation - utilising web services tofilter and disseminate resources, news, andknowledge prompts.