Practicing Critical Information Literacy. Interview with Troy Swanson. By Brian Mathews

 Practicing Critical Information Literacy. Interview with Troy Swanson.

June 10, 2015, 1:56 pm

By Brian Mathews

From: The Ubiquitous Librarian blog

I, library robot

Connecticut library has acquired two fully-automated, walking, talking robots to provide independent assistance to its patrons. The robots, set to begin their duties at the Westport, Conn., library Oct. 11, will teach computer programming skills, the Wall Street Journal reports.

The robots, Vincent and Nancy, stand just shy of 2 feet tall. They walk, grasp, move around walls, talk, listen and have facial-recognition software. They speak 19 languages.
But library robots Nancy and Vincent will not be shelving books or explaining the Dewey Decimal System -- at least, not at first.

 Reported October 1 2014 by Carolyn Kellogg of the Los Angeles Times

Re-wiring for the Complex Workplace

Re-wiring for the Complex Workplace

Now E-Textbooks Can Report Back on Students’ Reading Habits

some interesting discussion

E-Textbooks Can Report Back on Students’ Reading Habits

 Data mining is creeping into every aspect of student life—classrooms, advising, socializing. Now it’s hitting textbooks, too.
CourseSmart, which sells digital versions of textbooks by big publishers, announced on Wednesday a new tool to help professors and others measure students’ engagement with electronic course materials.
When students use print textbooks, professors can’t track their reading. But as learning shifts online, everything students do in digital spaces can be monitored, including the intimate details of their reading habits.

Joe Murphy's Keynote IATUL 2012

Joe Murphy's Keynote at the  33rd IATUL (International Association of Scientific and Technological University Libraries) conference in Singapore, 2012.

 

Technologies and Innovation - impact on learning, research & users

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