Discover, Explore, Play, Learn, Love: encouraging a culture of experimenta:on
MPPL Staff In-‐Service DayTaming the Technophobe
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Who Am I?
• Dr. Anthony Molaro
• Assistant Professor, St. Catherine University
• Twitter.com/infoactivist
• informationactivist.com
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• But before we begin
• Once upon a time...
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The present moment is a precious moment. It is a moment that has never existed before and will never exist again. The most amazing thing is that just one moment can change your life. Just a few moments can lead to a
movement.
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Loving new technology, programs and services is the end of a process. In this session we will walk through the five steps of experimentation spending time on each of the steps: discovery, exploration, playing, learning and loving (or hating). We will focus on technology tools that improve services to our library members, but this session will apply equally for face-to-face interactions as well as virtual interactions.
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• Interspersed within my talk will be some group activities
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Why
• Why do we do group activities?
• Learning theory
• Fitness
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You Just Have To Do It
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Mental Models
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Thumb Wrestling
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• Debrief
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Mental Models
• Are deeply ingrained beliefs, myths, stories about how the world works
• They are often invisible
• But directly affect our actions
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Organizational Mental Models
• Organizations have mental models too
• As organizations age and grow the mental models become further entrenched
• Organizational structures and individual thinking becomes more rigid
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A Few Examples
• Higher circulation is better
• Bigger salaries are better
• Libraries shouldn’t charge for materials
• Library websites are important/vital necessary
• I don’t even know where to begin with technology
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• Mental models are neither inherently good or bad; right or wrong
• They simply are
• The goal is to increase awareness of them
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Exercise
• One of the simplest exercises to do when approaching a new technology tool is to list our assumptions about it
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It is not just about technology
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Its about you crea:ng
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Its about you make connec:ons
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Why is this important?
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Experimenting
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If you don’t succeed, try, try again!
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The Process• Step 1: Discovery
• Step 2: Explore
• Step 3: Play
• Step 4: Learn
• Step 5: Love
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Step 1: Discovery
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How do you discover?
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• Opening your mind is about removing “noise”
• Emotional noise “I’m not good enough”
• The internal dialogue within all of us
• Attentive noise or distraction
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• Hippie Alert
Hippie Alert: Danger Touchy Feely Ahead
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Let’s Try It
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Unlock your heart
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Speak Listen
Conversation
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Read
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Scan the horizon
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Favorite Library Folks
• Library Journal’s Movers & Shakers
• David Lankes
• Beck Tench (Deputized a librarian)
• Eli Neiburger
• Everybody at Darien Library (CT.)
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Favorites
• Pew Internet Studies
• Horizon Reports
• Digital Shift (Library Journal)
• Wired Magazine
• Lifehacker.com
• Cnet.com
• Apple & Google
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A Word of Caution
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“As much as our television, radios, and movie theaters would have us believe otherwise, informa:on consump:on is as ac:ve an experience as ea:ng is; in order for us to live healthy lives, we must move our informa:on consump:on habits from the passive background of channel surfing into the foreground of conscious selec:on.” -‐ Informa:on Diet
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It’s there, waiting to be discovered
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Step 2: Explore
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It is intellectual
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Just chew on the idea
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How does this fit what you already know
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• Will this benefit library members?
• Will they use it?
• Who else can provide it?
• Will this benefit the library organization?
• Will this benefit me?
• Do you think this will last more than 5 minutes?
Questions to ask
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Its better to explore together
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Step 3: Play
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Create a technology ritual
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Play— the capacity to experiment with one’s surroundings as a form of problem-solving.
-Henry Jenkins
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Play is about trying something new
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Have a play date
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It can be scary and fun at the same time
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Sometimes you just have to pick it up with wide-eyes
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Even if you fail the first time
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Questions to ask
• Is it easy to use?
• Can I train staff to use it?
• Can I train library members to use it?
• Can it be integrated into our current offerings?
• How does it fit?
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“Play is the basis for cultivating imagination and innovation.”
-Thomas & Brown
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Step 4: Learn
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One must learn by doing the thing, for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try.
-Aristotle
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Learning is the process whereby knowledge is created through the transformation of experience. Knowledge
results from the combination of grasping experience and transforming it.
- Kolb
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Keep a technology journal
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Make it fun with badges
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Step 5: Love it (or hate it)
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Love is a matter of the heart
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Reflection
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I don’t love technology. I love what technology does for people.
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This is what we’ve actually been talking about.
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Advice
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Don’t worry
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Libraries are Kitchens (Richard Kong at AHML)
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We provide them with all the tools and training to be their own producers
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Google Example
Google engineers are given 20% of their time to work on projects that personally excite them.
Ask your boss to give you 2 hours per week to experiment.
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Focus on Amateur Development
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Have a failure party
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On Change:
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Once upon a time...
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Even now, as adults, there’s something in most of us that perks up and starts to listen when we hear those words. We love stories. And stories have always served important functions for us. They bring us together and reinforce our sense of community. They engage, amuse, enthrall, and titillate. And they teach: throughout history, before most people could read and write, stories, told by firesides and in village gatherings, were the mechanism by which we handed down laws and values, religions and taboos, knowledge and wisdom.
Fast Company (November 15, 2012)
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Blue Buckets
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