"If we learn to learn, it doesn’t matter that this week’s hot technology is Twitter and next week’s even shinier tool is something else. We can still figure it out, use our foundational knowledge to make sense of it and decide if it works in our situation. I teach blogging in many of my classes but the real skill I want my students to get is that they can master any technology/system I put in front of them....If we adapt to change, we aren’t thrown every time the world shifts. That’s one of the most important things I think we could do for students in LIS education - show them that everything will change."
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Learning new technology
Check out this post at Tame the Web re. libraries, learning and technology
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2 comments:
Excellent post, Heather. It was very timely, too, as some of my staff are beginning to wonder what all this "learning" has to do with their day-to-day work.
Learning to learn is the most important skill a person can have in the work force today, I think for any career.
Correlating with that the love or desire for learning would be a necessary "attititude."
Thanks, Heather!
Thanks Jan! I think that Michael Stephens always puts it well. And I agree with his idea that being able to sit down in front of a new piece of technology and figure it out is a crucial skill for public library workers. Of course we may not (and should not) use every one of these tools in our day-to-day work, but being aware of their existence and being willing to explore their possibilities is important.
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