My Favorite Things

Week One of our Learning 2.0 adventure featured an overview of the characteristics of lifelong learning, and the habits of successful learners. Striking for me was the primacy–in the literature– of the individual learner, and the acknowledgement that the learner will determine his goal, path and process.

Our communal exercise stumbled a bit in this regard; the initial pathways were narrow and constrained, the starting gaits (not gates) jerky and counterintuitive. I would have liked to have seen more radical trust in the efficacy of the learner, to choose wisely (whether to register or defer, bruit or conceal enrollment) and to proceed appropriately (eschewing labyrinthine launch-pads for a more logical learning sequence).

Learning 2.0 embodies interesting tensions; exploring and illuminating those tensions are valuable goals for the professional information navigator.

Hello World!

Day dawns on a new blog, and a new vista of learning. Over the coming weeks, I’ll be trekking alone and with colleagues, surveying the contours of Learning 2.0, through the prism of library service in a brave new world of virtual community and digitized humanity.