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Research Guides: Emerging Technology in the Library: Home

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Explores the uses of emerging technologies to improve the discovery and delivery of library resources and services.

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The Center for the Future of Libraries works to identify trends relevant to libraries and librarianship. This collection is available to help libraries and librarians understand how trends are developing and why they matter. Each trend is updated as new reports and articles are made available. New trends will be added as they are developed.

Trends will be organized into seven categories: Society, Technology, Education, the Environment, Politics (and Government), Economics, and Demographics (STEEPED). We have shared more information about the organization and classification of trends below.

If you have suggestions for additional information that could expand our coverage or ideas for additional trends that should be included, please contact the Center. We look forward to having you join this work!

Organization and Classification of Trends

Many futurists and trend scanners encourage the organizing or classifying of trends to help improve our understanding of trends, piece them together, and to ensure a broad view of the trends shaping our world. The DEGEST method of classification (Demography, Economy, Government, Environment, Society, and Technology) is among the most popular. For our purposes, we have expanded the classification to include Education as its own category and have re-labeled to form the acronym STEEPED: Society [red], Technology [light blue], Education [dark blue], the Environment [green], Politics & Government [orange], Economics [purple], and Demographics [yellow]. Each trend icon is color-coded to a category per the key below:

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The Center for the Future of Libraries works to identify trends relevant to libraries and librarianship. This collection is available to help libraries and librarians understand how trends are developing and why they matter.

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The Language of Information Literacy: Do Students Understand?

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Stanford researchers find students have trouble judging the credibility of information online

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Education scholars say youth are duped by sponsored content and don’t always recognize political bias of social messages.

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Start the New School Year With More Fun, Engaging Techniques and Resources Than You'll Probably be Able to use all Year!

Are you looking for ways to integration technology in your lesson plans and courses that provide for an engaging experience for you and your students? Fans of instructional technology know that it can be fun and inviting, and engaged students are far more likely to be learning.

I believe that if you can get students involved and motivated effectively enough, you can improve their learning habits over the long term.

With that in mind, here are 10 highly engaging uses of technology in the classroom, along with dozens of tools and resources for implementation. Most of these involve free web based tools, so that's an added bonus!

Interactive Collaboration

The 2014 Gates Foundation report, Teachers Know Best: What Educators Want from Digital Instructional Tools, indicates that teachers want tools "supporting student collaboration and providing interactive experiences". These types of tools are fun and engaging, and they support 21 st century skills like collaboration, communication, and creativity.

Learning this compelled me to write the article, " 20 Fun Free Tools for Interactive Classroom Collaboration", which has been in the top 10 most popular posts on the site since I published it in May. We followed that in July with " 5 More Cool Tools to Take Classroom Collaboration to a New Level ", another popular post. So there you have over two dozen fun free interactive collaboration tools to consider using in your classes this year!

Gathering Feedback

The potential to gather structured feedback in moments is a powerful aid to instruction, and thanks to proliferation of Internet enabled devices, it's never been easier. Hi-tech or lo-tech, it's easy to gather student input and feedback in today's classrooms. Here's a number of tools and techniques for doing so:

Surveys/Polls (using any Internet enabled device): When you use web based survey and polling tools, users can often participate from any web-enabled device. SurveyMonkey is a popular web based survey tool that provides for a small survey at no cost. Doodle, Polldaddy, and SurveyAnyplace, are a few other alternatives.

Clickers: Also known as Student Response Systems, these devices make it really easy to gather student feedback. Click here to read a story about a contest winner we had on the site back in 2010 who used Clickers to help improve FCAT scores.

Plickers: This is a relatively lo-tech, and highly affordable alternative to clickers that does not require students to have an electronic devices! Learn more here.

More advanced, education-specific tools: Apps like Socrative are great examples of the maturing tool set available to educators.

Twitter! Twitter is a unique, fun way to gather feedback when students have a way to tweet. Create a unique hashtag and have students use it in their tweets, to create a custom stream of student tweets. In this article, a College of Westchester teacher explains how Twitter helped engage her students in the course material.

Embedding Questions in Videos

Today's students consume video like drinking water. As today's teachers leverage this fact by using video for instructional purposes more than ever, free tools that enable educators to embed questions are powerful aid. When students are asked to consume video content outside of class, how can you help to ensure that they are really engaging with the content? Here's an excellent approach.

EduCanon: I recently created this '3 Minute Teaching with Technology' Tutorial Video showing how easy it is to use EduCanon to do this.

EdPuzzle (edpuzzle.com): I haven't tried this one yet, but I heard about it at FlipCon14, and people seem to really like it!

Ed.ted.com: This is a different approach - one that allows for the building of a quiz and other interactive content after the video is viewed.

Active Learning

This is a personal favorite of mine. Tech tools can be great for active learning in the classroom. Whether your preference is for Inquiry Based Learning, Constructivist Learning, Experiential Learning, or one of the various other labels for or sub-categories of Active Learning, there are applications and resources available to enable this teaching construct in your classroom. Here's a few web based resources for further exploration:

Social Learning

Bandura's Social Learning Theory posits that "people learn from one another, via observation, imitation, and modeling". Of course, the type of socialization that occurs via "social" computer tools is certainly different than face-to-face social interaction, but it still offers opportunities for social learning. Moreover, when it comes to blended and online learning, making an effort to bring social elements into the picture can truly help to fill one of the gaps that digital learning can have when contrasted with face-to-face learning.

Some resources to learn more:

Using Technology to Help to Ensure Engagement With Digital Content

As digital learning content becomes increasingly commonplace, one challenge we teachers are faced with is how to make sure that students are engaging with content they are consuming. Unlike the traditional textbook, digital content generally lends itself to much easier distraction.

One technique to help ensure that this type of content holds students' attention is to make it interactive, requiring responses and actions during consumption. We've already looked at embedding questions in videos as one example. Other techniques can include clicking on simple response requests, embedding discussion forums in content, or using techniques like K-W-L or WSQ. Whatever approach you take, it's worth considering some sort of measure to help ensure engagement.

Student Created Presentations

I've written a few times about the inspiring nature of student created content. Surely, one of the most rewarding moments a teacher can have is when they see the pride a student's face when they share something they have created.

In the article, Student Created Content is an Exciting and Inspiring Learning Tool that Teaches Many Skills, we look at student uses of iBooks and iMovie. As another example, I shared presentations created by students in my Emerging Information Technologies course using a variety of presentation tools in this article.

Project Based Learning

One very well-known form of Active Learning is Project Based Learning, and technology lends itself to PBL in so many ways. Heck, there's no need for me to write much more on this when so many others have!

Digital Makerspaces

The Makerspace Movement is of my favorite new 'trends' (although I really kind of hate that word) in education. While I fully embrace the many non-digital Maker tools that are available and should be a part of any robust school-base Maker Space, digital tools can also be used to create. Here's a few resources focused on the intersection of 'Digital' and 'Maker' in the education space:

Flip Your Class to Free up Class Time for More Engaged Learning

One of the primary challenges in getting engaged in the classroom can be making the time for it. If a course has a lot of learning content that has to be delivered, many teachers will use class time to that end. Flipped teaching and learning is a technique that addresses the question, "What is the Best use of Valuable Face-to-Face Class Time?" by making more class time available to be used as you see fit. Getting active and engaged is a great way to use that time!

Here are some select resources for learning more about flipped teaching and learning:

Well, there you have it ... a plethora of engaging using of technology for your classroom. Have fun!

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10 of the Most Engaging Uses of Instructional Technology (with Dozens of Resources and Tools)

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Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL)

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Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education

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ELECTRONIC RESOURCES & LIBRARIES

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Electronic Resources and Libraries - Exploring trends, technologies, e-resource management, and digital services in libraries.

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LIBRARY RESOURCES & TECHNICAL SERVICES

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Library Resources & Technical Services (LRTS) is available online at journals.ala.org/lrts. All issues from vol. 40, 1996 through the fifth-most-recent issue are online and openly available to everyone. Instructions for accessing member- and subscriber-only content.

Volume 58, no. 4 (2014) was the final print issue of LRTS. Read the " Open Letter to ALCTS Members and LRTS Subscribers" (April 2014) to learn more about the conversion of LRTS to an e-only journal.

Library Resources & Technical Services ( LRTS) is a peer-reviewed journal that takes a critical approach to the questions and challenges facing librarians and libraries with regard to:

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LRTS publishes both research papers and thoughtful explorations of operational issues that have value and implications for other libraries. In addition, LRTS publishes editorials, book reviews, letters to the editor, and the annual report of the president of the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services.

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THE DIGITAL SHIFT

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"Teen Librarian Toolbox" blogger and SLJTeen Live! panelist Karen Jensen shares some ideas and resources for low-budget maker spaces.

Library staff are the folks who love to talk about books. The more people we reach and can inspire, the happier we are. We also love to talk about libraries and their place in our society and share ideas about how to make libraries a better place for our users.

Library Ideas, developer of the Freading ebook and Freegal music solutions for libraries, is launching the GoChip Beam, a new type of device for lending movies and television series. Each GoChip Beam device contains a small Wi-Fi router, rechargeable battery, and solid state storage preloaded with five feature length movies or an entire season of a television series, all enclosed in a 3.5″ x 1″ stick.

Marmot Library Network has developed a Digital Archive and repository solution, enabling its member libraries to showcase digitized collections of images, postcards, books, magazines, videos, recorded oral histories, music, and academic research. Users...
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"Teen Librarian Toolbox" blogger and SLJTeen Live! panelist Karen Jensen shares some ideas and resources for low-budget maker spaces. Library staff are the folks who love to talk about books. The more people we reach and can inspire, the happier we are.