Teaching Research & Info Lit Skills

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.

lessons from journalism?

This is an excellent tool. 

Nuttige mindmappingtoepassing!

student wikepedia has to be the future where instead of passively reading they actively research and contribute to their learning PLN... We have started but have so much more to go

I really enjoyed reading this article.  

Wonmderful article.  Peter's response is deep!  Read it!

If you are using Twitter to any kind of serious reporting, research or journalism work, you should read this guide by Steve Buttry.

From the intro: "Given the errors some journalists made in reporting on the Sandy Hook massacre and in the original reporting on Manti Te’o's fake girlfriend, this feels like a good time to stress accuracy and verification.

The most simple and important advice I can give is that Twitter is like any other information source — documents, anonymous tips, news releases, press conferences, interviews, databases — it can provide valuable information or deliberate lies or innocent errors. Your job is to verify the information that looks useful. As with all the other information you gather, you can verify lots of different ways, and no single technique works for everything.

Some of the tips I provide here will be specific to Twitter or to social media generally. Some will be general verification tips applied to Twitter."

Great guide. Resourceful. 8/10

Full guide: http://stevebuttry.wordpress.com/2013/01/21/how-to-verify-information-from-tweets-check-it-out/

En anglais, une liste de conseils pour être sûr d'une source Twitter destinée au journalistes. Ca peut servir aussi pour certaines veilles spécialisées sur les réseaux sociaux.

Investigative searching techniques any one can use to verify sources.

Intéressant

thanks for the scoop!

A hot and relevant topic

Hat tip to Robin Good.

Pour les anglophones pressés ou les lecteurs francophones qui souhaitent un résumé plus digeste des pages web en anglais !

CruxLight, une Extension Chrome et Firefox, résume automatiquement les pages web (anglais seulement). Elle vous donne également les mots clés importants autour desquels s'articule l'article. De plus, les passages essentiels sont surlignés.

in professional learning knowledge is key, ie how it is collected, maintained, presented, shared, renewed, ie curated!