{"id":954,"date":"2013-03-19T10:16:20","date_gmt":"2013-03-19T14:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.acohen.com\/blog\/?p=954"},"modified":"2023-12-13T08:09:13","modified_gmt":"2023-12-13T12:09:13","slug":"learning-with-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.acohen.com\/blog\/learning-with-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning with Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The most visible signs of our embrace of digital media belongs to the students &#8211; young and old.  The way they learn using computers, iPads, e-readers and smartphones are different than the past.  They are quick to embrace the &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20140216052814\/http:\/\/www.ted.com:80\/talks\/sugata_mitra_build_a_school_in_the_cloud.html\">library in the cloud<\/a>&#8221; as <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sugata_Mitra\">Sugata Mitra<\/a><\/strong> describes in <strong>Build a School in the Cloud<\/strong>. It is natural for them to work in groups to learn.  With just a little support from a &#8220;grandma&#8221; or someone who is older that encourages them as Mitra points out, the students can learn anything from a device connected to the net. <\/p>\n<p>The shift taking place in libraries is proving to be transformative in the ways we use information. It is not only Community Colleges and Universities that are being transformed, but as the Strategic Content Alliance stated in <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sr.ithaka.org\/research-publications\/sustaining-our-digital-future\">Sustaining Our Digital Future: Institutional Strategies for Digital Content<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; &#8220;The use of dynamic digital resources \u2014 websites, digital collections, databases of crowdsourced or born digital content pose opportunities and challenges that are all their own.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Our universities are working to understand the impact of globalization on higher education in an increasingly transformed environment. This ranges from overseas universities offering cheaper undergraduate and graduate programs to the development of <strong>\u201cmassive open online courses\u201d, or MOOC&#8217;s<\/strong>.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>It has become clear that a great deal of the content that libraries are holding today is expected to endure because of our natural embrace of technology.  We need to start rethinking how libraries and learning centers can support this paradigm shift in the 21st century. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.acohen.com\/workshops.htm\">JOIN US FOR OUR LIBRARY PLANNING WORKSHOPS<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The most visible signs of our embrace of digital media belongs to the students &#8211; young and old. 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