Content Curation for Online Education

Right, this is a topic I've been thinking and working with a lot lately. The authors discuss this as a tool for secondary school (mostly), but the principles apply equally to adult learners and collaboration, learning communities and communities of practice.

The reference list is also a valuable resource. More to add to my reading list...

Robin Good's insight:

Paul Mihailidis, has an interesting essay on "Exploring Curation as a Core Competency in Digital an Media Literacy Education" in which he offers "a prospective attempt to build curation into the media literacy conversation..." by analyzing the analyzing effective curation practices, and six highly relevant teaching points for using a news curation tool like Storify in the classroom.

His essay "seeks to encourage instructors, particularly on secondary and tertiary education levels, to bridge the gap between informal learning outside of the classroom with formal learning to create a more dynamic place for students to advance critical inquiry, dialogue, and engagement through new forms of content creation, curation, and dissemination."

He writes: "Through student-driven, creation-driven, collective and integrated teaching approaches to curation, the framework aims to build towards savvy media consumption and production, critical evaluation and analysis, and participation in local, national and global dialog.

The framework also addresses the ability to see diversity and civic voice as core competencies in the curation process.

As students learn to build cohesive stories and ideas from a wide variety of sources, they can learn about the diverse types of content that inform a story, and the avenues they have-through social media tools and platforms-to be part of the discussion."

Curation can be an extremely effective approach to develop critical thinking skills and practices, as it forces students to evaluate, vet, verify and decide what really matters.

"When students develop a credible list of professional and personal sources around an issue and/or event, they must acknowledge how much subjective weight they place on a tweet, a blog, or a Facebook post and in relative comparison to an advocacy group, cable television operation, or news service. Arguing for the credibility of a myriad of voices online forces students to build valuable justifications for what they choose to believe, and why."

Informative. Examples-rich. Educationally useful. 8/10

Full essay: http://www-jime.open.ac.uk/jime/article/viewArticle/2013-02/html

I am very excited to find this work to share with my teachers. I continue to get pushback as I try to encourage them to allow time for students to curate.  The fact of the matter is that true curation takes time, but the skills gained by students cannot be ignored, and research and critical analysis are found throughout the Common Core Standards. Curation is also a pathway to personalized learning as students pursue their own areas of interest through the art of curation.

Yes! Story and context go hand in hand.  By focusing on story, students might be better able to grasp the concept of context.

We make it work for us, for our students

Curating is definitely mediated by the curators own spin on the content, whether it be understanding, interest, preference or other bias.

very simple steps to follow - bookmarking, mindmap then classify your bookmarks, structure your research summary, set deadlines

We are all researchers as our "body of knowledge" moves from "stocks" to "flows". This is some great simple advice to help us keep our L>C (Rate of Learning greater than the rate of change).

"An interesting example of using tools for educational purposes. Scoop.it can be used to:1- teach kids to search;  2- manage information, evaluate sources and build collections and 3- allow kids to publish content on topics that are  part of the curriculum." via @Paula Silva

I think there is merit to what Ms. Ileanes says, however I still believe that a teacher needs to be a blogger.

If you are just beginning your connection with Scoop.it, or even if you've been using Scoop.it for awhile, you are sure to pick up a pointer or two from Ms. Ileane Smith's podcast. She's soooo enthusiastic and quite complete in her coverage. Great job. And she's correct about being able to establish yourself as an authority without having to write a blog.

Great scoop by Robin showing how Behance depends on curation. Also shows the importance of "do more with less" curation tools such as Scoop.it. One of the most popular pieces I've written was

5 Magical Do Morew With Less Curation Tools

 

Great peice highlighting the increasing popularity and how useful content curation by humans is.

Again the question is_ how togive form to relevant knowledge

I think this statement captures the essence of the piece: "A curator ingests, analyzes and contextualizes web content and information of a particular nature onto a platform or into a format we can understand". I tend to think of it as the skill required to separate news from noise. #curation

#SocialMedia Governance: what's the role of the Content #Curator. Good article from #Mashable

Excelente artículo en Mashable de Stephanie Buck que nos habla de este nuevo perfil profesional que está irrumpiendo con fuerza en el marketing de contenidos, el Content Curator.

Read about the beginning of content curation

www.mjfgroup.biz

Joyce Valenza identifies curating as an "information life skill."  While librarians are uniquely qualified for this task, it is a skill that everyone can benefit from, including students.  Joyce provides links to some of the curating tools available. Good summary, and some excellent questions are posed for futher thought and research.

We can certainly try to.....

This type of infographic does a very good job giving the big picture on the subject. It makes a good first step before delving more deeply into possibilities.