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To find, collect, organise, and present information... Drinking from a Hose. My morning mail. ResearchBuzz. The deeper you get, the deeper you get. Brain Pickings. Why Curation Will Transform Education and Learning: 10 Key Reasons. There is a growing number of key trends that are both rapidly revolutionizing the world of education as we know it and opening up opportunities to review and upgrade the role and scope of many of its existing institutions, (as the likeliness that they are going to soon become obsolete and unsustainable, is right in front of anyone's eyes).

Why Curation Will Transform Education and Learning: 10 Key Reasons

George Siemens, in his recent Open Letter to Canadian Universities, sums them up well: 1) An Overwhelming Abundance of Information Which Begs To Be OrganizedThe goal is not (and probably it never was) to learn or memorize all of the information available out there. It's just too much even if we focus only on the very essence of it. How do you curate content or have it curated for you?