21st Century Learning and Teaching

Integration
Curation can and should be used as a tool of teaching and learning itself.. It is not enough for us to simply present content and imagine that it will be so compelling that our audience will instantly change their behavior.  The learning process is a complex one that, especially in experienced learners, requires a process of integration between new and old experiences.  In many ways when we seek to ‘teach’ people, what we are really seeking to achieve is ‘integration’ between old and new experiences.  For most individuals, this will be a process of curation; storing ideas, transforming them to fit with existing experiences and mental models, and, at some point in the future, sharing them through behavior.  Thought of in this light, we can suggest that curation is a key part of the learning process, a key digital literacy that will be required for all current and future knowledge workers.  It is not enough to be told; that’s grade school stuff.  In the current working landscape it is constantly necessary to problem solve and innovate.  That requires critical thought.

Taking this approach, we can seek to produce pedagogical frameworks in our formal learning activities that encourage individuals to cast a critical eye over knowledge, and to be more reflective in their approach to learning. In these circumstances, learners articulate their grasp of a subject area by storing, transforming and sharing their understanding.  If we don’t allow for these processes, we are short-changing learners.  Static, anti-social online learning activities are repeat offenders here; presenting an experienced learner with an online PowerPoint presentation and expecting them to have a meaningful, lasting learning experience simply isn’t going to cut it.  Learners have to be able to curate formal learning to integrate new insights with existing experiences, and to demonstrate back to you, the teacher, how they are going to change.

Learn more:

http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching/?tag=Curation

https://gustmees.wordpress.com/2013/04/25/learn-every-day-a-bit-with-curation/

https://gustmees.wordpress.com/2015/07/19/learning-path-for-professional-21st-century-learning-by-ict-practice/

https://gustmees.wordpress.com/2014/03/29/practice-learning-to-learn/