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

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

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

ACRL/NY December 2, 2005 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."

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

ACRL/NY December 2, 2005 Deeper Learning Is: Net Gen Students Are: ACTIVEEXPERIENTIAL

ACRL/NY December 2, 2005 British Museum website

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

ACRL/NY December 2, 2005 MOMA Poll

ACRL/NY December 2, 2005 Global Probability Lesson

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

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

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

ACRL/NY December 2, 2005 Dartmouth Library

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

ACRL/NY December 2, 2005 USC Student Project

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

ACRL/NY December 2, 2005 GMU History Tools

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

ACRL/NY December 2, 2005 Dickinson College IC

ACRL/NY December 2, 2005 Cox Center - Emory

ACRL/NY December 2, 2005 Georgia Tech IC

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

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

ACRL/NY December 2, 2005 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 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 Resources Educating the Net Gen Edited by Diana G. Oblinger and James L. Oblinger Colleen Carmean & Jeremy Haefner. “Mind Over Matter.” EDUCAUSE Review, vol 37, No. 6, Nov./Dec.,