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Whether students choose to handwrite, sketch, or type their notes, the challenge lies not in choosing, but in creating a system that allows them to ultimately curate, synthesize, and reflect on what they learn..
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A digital essay completed by Heather Bailie as part of the assessment requirements of #INF530 Concepts & Practices for a Digital Age.
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Curation tools and web services designed to create learning paths, curriculums, thematic collections and PKM portfolios
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Exploring Curation as a core competency in digital and media literacy education
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Robin Good: Must-read article on ClutterMuseum.com by Leslie M-B, exploring in depth the opportunity to have students master their selected topics by "curating" them, rather than by reading and memorizing facts about them. "Critical and creative thinking should be prioritized over remembering content" "That students should learn to think for themselves may seem like a no-brainer to many readers, but if you look at the textbook packages put out by publishers, you’ll find that the texts and accompanying materials (for both teachers and students) assume students are expected to read and retain content—and then be tested on it. Instead, between middle school (if not earlier) and college graduation, students should practice—if not master—how to question, critique, research, and construct an argument like an historian." This is indeed the critical point. Moving education from an effort to memorize things on which then to be tested, to a collaborative exercise in creating new knowledge and value by pulling and editing together individual pieces of content, resources and tools that allow the explanation/illustration of a topic from a specific viewpoint/for a specific need. And I can't avoid to rejoice and second her next proposition: "What if we shifted the standards’ primary emphasis from content, and not to just the development of traditional skills—basic knowledge recall, document interpretation, research, and essay-writing—but to the cultivation of skills that challenge students to make unconventional connections, skills that are essential for thriving in the 21st century?" What are these skills, you may ask. Here is a good reference where to look them up: http://www.p21.org/storage/documents/P21_Framework_Definitions.pdf (put together by the Partnership for 21st Century Skills) Recommended. Good stuff. 9/10 Full article: www.cluttermuseum.com/make-students-curators/ (Image credit: Behance.net)
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Robin Good: Mobento is a hub of curated educational video clips integrating a special search engine capable of finding any word spoken inside the video collection and of visualizing where the words were spoken on a timeline. From the official site: "This is a library and a library has librarians. That’s us. We’ll be rigorous in only uploading high quality, fascinating videos from established academic institutions and learning organizations." FAQ: http://www.mobento.com/faq Try it out now: http://www.mobento.com/
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Robin Good: What is it more important? To refine a science of how to transmit, explain and illustrate what "needs to be known" or that we empower learners to create their own learning direction, approach, scaffolding and pace, by providing them with the ability to "drive" and "build" their learning value and not by having them become open sponges that memorize and comprehend what we offer them? From the original article by Dominik Lukes: "A self-directed, self-motivated learner, will take any resources (no matter how pedagogically naive or badly instructionally designed – Khan Academy, iTunesU lectures, iPad ebooks, labs, conventional classes or TED videos) and use them to learn. As the learner becomes more aware of their own learning (gaining metacognitive skills), they will look for resources that suit their learning better. And, in many cases, will create such resources. That’s why we need to encourage a culture of the remix. Or in starker terms: Curation and creation over education." Rightful. 7/10 Full article: http://researchity.net/2012/08/15/zero-pedagogy-a-hyperbolic-case-for-curation-and-creation-over-education/ <- the abundance of information is changing education in so many ways... (JS)
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Robin Good: Must-read article on ClutterMuseum.com by Leslie M-B, exploring in depth the opportunity to have students master their selected topics by "curating" them, rather than by reading and memorizing facts about them. "Critical and creative thinking should be prioritized over remembering content" "That students should learn to think for themselves may seem like a no-brainer to many readers, but if you look at the textbook packages put out by publishers, you’ll find that the texts and accompanying materials (for both teachers and students) assume students are expected to read and retain content—and then be tested on it. Instead, between middle school (if not earlier) and college graduation, students should practice—if not master—how to question, critique, research, and construct an argument like an historian." This is indeed the critical point. Moving education from an effort to memorize things on which then to be tested, to a collaborative exercise in creating new knowledge and value by pulling and editing together individual pieces of content, resources and tools that allow the explanation/illustration of a topic from a specific viewpoint/for a specific need. And I can't avoid to rejoice and second her next proposition: "What if we shifted the standards’ primary emphasis from content, and not to just the development of traditional skills—basic knowledge recall, document interpretation, research, and essay-writing—but to the cultivation of skills that challenge students to make unconventional connections, skills that are essential for thriving in the 21st century?" What are these skills, you may ask. Here is a good reference where to look them up: http://www.p21.org/storage/documents/P21_Framework_Definitions.pdf (put together by the Partnership for 21st Century Skills) Recommended. Good stuff. 9/10 Full article: www.cluttermuseum.com/make-students-curators/ (Image credit: Behance.net)
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Robin Good: What does curation mean from an educational viewpoint? And what is the key difference between "collecting" and "curating".
Nancy White (@NancyW), a 21st Century Learning & Innovation Specialist and the author of Innovations in Education blog, has written an excellent article, dissecting the key characterizing traits of curation, as a valuable resource to create and share knowledge. She truly distills some key traits of curation in a way that is clear and comprehensible to anyone. She writes: "The first thing I realized is that in order to have value-added benefits to curating information, the collector needs to move beyond just classifying the objects under a certain theme to deeper thinking through a) synthesis and b) evaluation of the collected items. How are they connected?" Excellent definition. And then she also frames perfectly the relevance of "context" for any meaningful curation project by writing: "I believe when we curate, organization moves beyond thematic to contextual – as we start to build knowledge and understanding with each new resource that we curate. Themes have a common unifying element – but don’t necessarily explain the “why.” Theme supports a central idea – Context allows the learner to determine why that idea (or in this case, resource) is important. So, as collecting progresses into curating, context becomes essential to determine what to keep, and what to discard." But there's a lot more insight distilled in this article as Nancy captures with elegance the difference between collecting for a personal interest and curating for a specific audience. She finally steals my full endorsement for this article by discretely inquirying how great a value it would be to allow students to "curate" the domains of interest they need to master. Excellent. Highly recommended. 9/10 Full article: http://d20innovation.d20blogs.org/2012/07/07/understanding-content-curation/ ;
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A key part of the Seek > Sense > Share framework for PKM is to find new ways to explain things, or add value to existing information.
"School librarians can use curation as a tool to position themselves as information and communication authorities and information professionals."
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Exploring Curation as a core competency in digital and media literacy education
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Robin Good: "7 Things You Should Know About Social Content Curation" is a technology brief from Educause which aims to introduce, explain and illustrate the emerging social curation trend and why it is relevant to teaching and learning. From the official abstract: "An emerging class of online tools, including Pinterest, Scoop.it, EduClipper, and others, allows users to quickly and easily gather, organize, and share collections of online resources, particularly visual content. These applications make it easy to collect and post disparate bits of content, providing visual groupings at a glance that can reveal important patterns. In academic settings, they can facilitate more visual thinking and discussion among students while providing a means to share collections of online content."
Informative. Good introductory text. 7/10
ePUB: http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/epub/ELI7089.epub PDF: http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7089.pdf
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Instructors are information curators. At iTteachU (University of Alaska), this is how teachers are using content curation tools in the classroom to: - create group activities; - organize and disseminate new content as a sort of digital handout to students in online and flipped classrooms; - collect and share professional reading materials with students; - foster discussion about current events; - encourage students to become both content creators and curators; - connect to experts outside class and to the world knowledge base; - critique information available on the web. teach students to curate social media; - help students gain credibility and exposure; - keep track of online research efforts; - create reading lists; - help students gain access to the ‘collective intelligence’ of the Internet; What about you? Do you use curation tools for personal or pedagogical purposes? Let us know. Share your experience on curation with us. Link to the original post: http://iteachu.uaf.edu/grow-skills/filelink-management/content-curation-tools/ Image: cc licensed ( BY NC SA ) flickr photo by MichaelEClarke: http://flickr.com/photos/unrelaxeddad/2707719368/
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Robin Good: Here is a good example of video curation at work. CoFounder.tv is a video web site curating only the best and most inspiring entrepreneurship video clips. From startuppers, to investors and VCs, the growing collection strives to bring together a variety of viewpoints from those who have been there. The curated video site is maintained by Rony El-Nashar, a VC at Dubai based SeedStartup, a startup accelerator and seed venture fund that invests in early-stage startups from all around the world. He writes: "My goal with Cofounder TV is to build a resource that educates and inspires entrepreneurs globally." Right on track. A pioneering example of what you are going to see in place of blogs soon. 9/10 Check it out: http://cofounder.tv/
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Robin Good: I believe that content curation will play a very important role in the future of education and learning and this presentation-map focuses on this topic.
I have identified at least ten reasons that are transforming and weakening the education-certification system as it is now, and may rapidly give way to new ways of teaching, learning and getting certified which will likely involve a great deal of curation (both for those who teach/guide and those who want to learn). In this presentation-map I am introducing the concept of curation for education, the key factors that I see are transforming traditional academic institutions and the learning industry in general, and the tools, resources and examples that are relevant to those working in these fields and wanting to find out more. As part of my workshop session during the emerge2012 conference in which I have first presented these ideas, I have also created an "open", collaborative wiki-map where, you are welcome to contribute inspiring curated collections. You will find instructions on how to contribute to it at the end of this presentation.
Full presentation-map: http://www.mindomo.com/mindmap/content-curation-for-education-and-learning-robin-good-emerge2012-98ccaad217074a07b9bff8b76effab8e "What is content curation in the context of education and why it is going to be so relevant in the near future. Benefits of content curation, examples and tools."
Emerge2012 Conference
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Robin Good: Next Tuesday, July 10th I will be running a live online workshop on "content curation for education and learning" as part of the e/merge 2012 web conference. My session (90 mins.) will focus on defining curation within an educational/learning context and analyzing the factors that will rapidly make curation a major new interest area. I will look at the key benefits that content curation may bring, as well as at the types of content curation that are possible and the key tools available to do it. I will finally showcase a few interesting examples of curation at work, before diving into a "live" collaborative session in which I will be joined by participants in the creation of a collection of great examples of curated content for education/learning. A follow-up Q&A session is sheduled for the following week on Tue 17 at 12:15 GMT+2 e/merge 2012 is the fourth virtual conference on educational technology in Africa and builds on the e/merge conferences in 2004, 2006 and 2008. e/merge 2012 which takes place online from 9 – 20 July 2012, is primarily designed to share good practice and knowledge about educational technology innovation within the further and higher education sectors in the region, as well as to strengthen communities of researchers and practitioners. The e/merge 2012 conference is organised by Tony Carr and the Centre for Educational Technology at the University of Cape Town. Live session: 10 July from 12.30 – 2 pm GMT+2 Q&A: 17 July from 12.15 pm – 1.00 pm GMT+2 More info: http://emerge2012.net/workshops/content-curation-robin-good/ ; Workshops agenda: http://emerge2012.net/workshops/ ; Programme: http://emerge2012.net/provisional-emerge-2012-schedule/ ; Registration page: http://emerge2012.net/registration/ ; (The event is free for participants based in Africa.
Participants from other regions – R750 (apx US $100) Event general info: http://emerge2012.net
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Scoop.it!
Making curation part of an information management process.
Making curation part of an information management process.
Making curation part of an information management process.