Curation in Learning. I’m getting very excited about the possibilities of using more digital curation in learning.
The trouble with curation is that I’m seeing it everywhere. As such I wanted to come up with a short framework that I could use to talk about how I see curation in learning being used, both at the organisation level and for individuals. So, go easy on me; here’s what I’m proposing… We can think of digital curation as being useful to us in four broad roles that I’m calling Inspiration, Aggregation, Integration and Application.
Inspiration is how I term curation that is done by other people on your behalf, outside of a formal learning environment. Professional Online Publishing: New Media Trends, Communication Skills, Online Marketing - Robin Good's MasterNewMedia. Content Curation for Education and Learning: Robin Good @Emerge2012. PKM as pre-curation. The most important part of personal knowledge management (PKM), in my opinion, is the need for active sense-making.
Merely seeking and sharing information does little other than create more noise online. Sense-making takes time, discipline, and effort. One strength of PKM is the “manual” nature of sense-making activities. The act of writing a blog post, a tweet, or an annotation on a social bookmark all force you to think a bit more than clicking once and filing it to an automated system.