The Information Literacy Tipping Point
Ways to spread information literacy: get a supportive president/principal/super intendent
Top Down Change: The Boss says to do it
Things that Impact Actions within an organization (Controls): Budgets, Policies, Architectures, Organizational Culture
SCurve for innovation
Three things that make an innovation successful
Car Charger for iPod Example or QWERTY Keyboard: two ideas that have not tipped
Gladwell's three pieces to "tipping" (Context, people, ?): How to hit that steepest part of S curve
Connectors, mavens, salesmen
Connectors & the power of exponents
Diffusion
Why do innovations fail?
Focus on the Big Picture: Official Documents, statements policies
Focus on the Little Picture: One project/assignment that really rethinks how information literacy must work
Use Symbols
Find people: Most people are connected to select individuals, or a few people are connected to everyone else
Let go and give ideas away: Re-Invention
Increase variability to increase the rate of change
Encourage playfulness & randomness
Reflective Questions
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