RenaissanceIn the trend – hard to see – look back rope and

string

Change and EvolutionOr revolution – centenary shift?

Renaissance, Industrial, Space, Information…

• GCL• Private research• Books, Textbooks, Games, e-learning, etc.• Pew• Ypulse, Kidscreen• Smartypants

• Today – teens in univ, K-12, PL• Google, YouTube, iTunes

What will their world look like?

2020

Their World• Unpredictability e.g. Roy and social web, transporters, holographs, goggles, • Mobile & Web matrix integration (SmartDevice, embeds, NFC, Gesture,

Cloud, LinkedData, Geo, )• Employment – many jobs / careers not known yet• Education LMS… lifelong• Regulatory framework – Bank act/SEC metaphor• Collaborative work software• Multiple cohorts• Tracked and tested• Video, Gamification, …• News vs. newspapers, polarization, opinion over journalism• Voluntarism, Democracy, • Urban rural divide persists, digital divide doesn’t • Entertainment, music . . .

What are they like?

The New Teen• Sustainably socially connected• Truly personal devices• Smarter but still need scaffolds• Still human – brain and development, puberty, sleep, genes• Diversity as norm, vs. a focus• Significant percentage of identified issues (visual/hearing/mobility and

social/ADD/ADHD/autism spectrum, learning edges) • Differential adoption (e-readers, Tweets, vs. Boom/GenX) – still don’t use all

features• Readers but different mix, time isn’t malleable, fiction/nonfiction, print/e-content,

news/gossip/opinion, global. author/authority• Social Gamers vs. isolated players, episodic reading, scaffolds skill• Self-taught techies, narrow, crime/ethics/morality • Boys and girls – problems and opportunities, 9am, • Socially liberal• Tolerant, flexible, boundary challenging, rule benders, under-radar

Librarians and Information

Librarian needs

• 21st Century Learning• Common Core• Learning Management Systems• Collaboration Space + Community Tools• Linked Data• Experience Development• Space planning• Engagement strategies• Being where they are…

Library Strategies

Library StrategiesPrioritization and segmentation• Lifelong Learning• Boys to men• Programs +++• Virtual Space• Engagement – gaming,

lasertag, 3D, FabLab, MakerFaire,

• POSITIONING for life• Named rock star librarians

(Justin on CBS)

• Trans-Literacy• Guitars, poetry, • Real courses, certificates,

GED, diplomas, …• True Homework Help• Appointment partnerships

(learning issues) parent partnership targets

• Paertnerships• College choices• Safe Space