Info Fluency

,” Vernal says. “The secondary problem is trying to understand on a per user basis what is most interesting to them. If you prefer music, we show you more music. If you prefer games, we show you more games.

“Then we merge those two sets of scores together, to influence what Newsfeed shows and what Timeline shows and what some other systems show.”

The future is here. Be a part of it. Support the FFL Fab Lab.

The Fayetteville Free Library is excited to announce the addition of a new public service—the FFL Fab Lab. What exactly is a fab lab? According to Neil Gershenfeld, the Director of MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms and author of Fab: the Coming Revolution on Your Desktop-From Personal Computers to Personal Fabrication, a fab lab is “a collection of commercially available machines and parts linked by software and processes developed for making things (Gershenfeld, 12).” At the foundation of the FFL's Fab Lab will be a MakerBot Thing-o-Matic 3D printer, made available to the library through a generous donation from Express Computer Services.

Network learning, at the individual level, includes:

• Personal directed learning – how individuals can use social media for their own (self-directed) personal or professional learning; and
• Accidental and serendipitous learning – how individuals, by using social media, can learn without consciously realizing it (e.g., incidental or random learning).