Digital Literacy in the Library

After seeing Mrs. Sike's excellent K-5 handouts for teachers here <http://mrssikes.wordpress.com/2013/08/10/collaboration-with-common-core-state-standards>, I decided to make something for my 6th grade ELA teachers. Feel free to copy and adapt!

Great promotional item!!

A Must See Graphic on Creative Commons for Students

We must teach our students Creative Commons early!

great tool for teaching Creative Commons #tlchat

Homework always needs re-visiting.

Ugly Chart-Great Ideas!

Print this and post next to the copier in the faculty workroom

Elizabeth Weaver Engel and Jeff De Cagna are the authors of a small but very useful guide to Content Curation originally written for membership groups, and first published in November 2012.

The guide offers a good introduction to why content curation is so important, how it can help any organization and what are the key things to know about it for anyone who knows little or nothing about it.

From the original PDF guide, entitled "Attention Doesn't Scale: The Role of Content Curation in Membership Associations":

"Content curation provides a potential path to a new type of thought leadership, one that is more suited to a world where information is no longer the scarce resource. Focus is. Meaning is. Wisdom is.

But that type of support will require a signicant shift in our business models.

For decades, associations have been in the business of generating information.

Our challenge now is to transform ourselves into being in the business of sense-making, helping members distinguish what new information is most relevant and integrate that information into their mental categories, and meaning-making, helping them understand the implications of that  new information for their worldviews."

Lots of good tips, references and relevant resources listed. Provides good foundational reference for any serious business reader.

Good intro to content curation. Resourceful. Informative. 8/10

Pass it on.

Attention Doesn't Scale (PDF) - http://www.getmespark.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/AttentionDoesntScale-Whitepaper-Nov2012.pdf

(9 pages)

YouTube video: http://youtu.be/IWbFI_ny9fY
(The Role of Content Curation in Associations:
Interview With Elizabeth Engel) by Brian Kelly of AssociationMaves.com

(23':41")

With almost anyone now able to generate and publish content, finding relevance (signal to noise) is precoccupying knowledge workers everywhere. Sense-making, new media literacy and the ability to understand concepts across a wide range of disciplines are ctitical skills for the content curator in cutting through the noise to find that all important signal. Effective content curation will help us to focus and make sense of our complex and ambiguous world, to understand context and ultimately to make better decisons. 

Finaally someone is thinking outside the box.  In today's world some of the most knowledgeable people are self-taugt because the technology and social landscape change so quickly.  Today you can get various computer science degress; however, when I started working I learned MS Dos and then Windows from the ground up.  I became knowledgeable in IT because I was the youngest in the office.  I became the direct link with our partner in Dallas on all things IT because there was no one else locally to do the work,  eventhough I was in Seattle. 

I started with a IBM Selectric and transitioned to word processing.  I started merging mail lists before there was documentation on it. 

I could go on but you get the point.  The fact is I didn't have a degree in 90% of what I learned on the job.  I was credentialed and certified in accounting and business management . . . nothing technical.

This is the corner we need.  Thank you President Clinton for finding a way to certify skills so they're marketable.  This truly will change the game for many, allow innovators that are ahead of the education community recognition, and reward those who go beyond their training to become indespensible.  In addition, it gives additional incentive to keep skills sharp, continue innovation, and push our industries back to the top.

The use of badges seems to be more and more frequent.  Who decides what level of knowledge a  badge represents?  

Amazing