I’m honestly not sure what to take from these final class readings. The Blowers piece on Learning 2.0 illustrates how important it is for current librarians to learn even the basics of Web 2.0. I definitely chuckled a little when Blowers mentioned how librarians would claim a computer was out of order because they couldn’t remember the password, but that habit is indicative of a deeper problem that Learning 2.0 addresses. It provides incentive for learning skills like the ones we learned in 643 in the form of an mp3 player (albeit a less-than-stellar one) while giving librarians the skills to keep up in this changing world of technology we always talk about at SI. Hopefully these librarians won’t freak out the next time a floppy disk is left in a computer.
Fontichiaro’s piece was interesting in that it reveals how she took Learning 2.0 and translated it to an elementary level. This reveals her ability to adjust Learning 2.0 to different learning situations, and I can’t help but assume this is how 643 was born. I’m totally okay with this since I learned so many practical skills in this class, but I can’t help but feel that someone owes be a 1 GB Sandisk mp3 player.
The piece about Fusion and teachers, on the other hand, did not excite me as much although I do appreciate the fact that Fusion is designed to enhance teachers’ different teaching styles instead of forcing them to teach in one certain way. Just as people learn most effectively in different ways, I imagine that teachers work the best with different teaching styles.