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Storify in education. Pearltrees for education. Why learnist will change education. Curation: Making Meaning & Adding Value. Seth's Blog. Educational uses for curation. Web curation: Uses in education. Content Curation Tools. What is Content Curation?

Content Curation Tools

As instructors, we are all information curators. How do you collect and share currently relevant content with your students? How do your students research and share information that they find with the rest of class? What tools do you use to manage or facilitate presentation of resources? Is it public? Modern web tools make it easy for both students and instructors to contribute online discoveries to class conversations. How can I use Content Curation in My Class? Instructors are using online content curation tools in the classroom to: The following are some real-life examples of how content curation tools are being used in education. Pinterest is a pinboard-styled social photo sharing website. Storify is a way to tell stories using social media such as tweets, photos and videos.

Scoop.it allows users to create and share their own themed magazines designed around a given topic. - Amazing Resources to Discover and Curate Digital Curriculum for Students and Teachers... Part Two. 0 Comments February 9, 2013 By: Michael Gorman Feb 9 Written by: 2/9/2013 2:25 PM ShareThis.

- Amazing Resources to Discover and Curate Digital Curriculum for Students and Teachers... Part Two

Goal 10: Spread Your Knowledge (15+ Tools to Bookmark, Aggregate, Curate) Posted by Shelly Terrell on Thursday, June 14th 2012 Goal 10 of The 30 Goals Challenge for Educators!

Goal 10: Spread Your Knowledge (15+ Tools to Bookmark, Aggregate, Curate)

Click the link to find out more about the new changes to this year’s 30 Goals Challenge for Educators! ““If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it. ” ~ Margaret Fuller Short-term- share resources you have collected about a topic with colleagues at school or online. Teach your students to use online bookmarking, curation, and aggregation tools to gather and organize their knowledge.

Long-term- develop a community for sharing resources in your teaching environment. My Personal Thoughts About This Goal As educators, we are in the business of learning. Resources Related to This Goal I love learning. The tools that I use meet a few criteria: They have a free app! Tools Diigo- saves all your bookmarks in one location accessible anywhere with the Internet, allows you to highlight sections on websites and make notes, takes clippings, tag, search, and more!

Part One Digital Learning … Top 3 Resources to Discover and Curate Digital Curriculum for Teachers and Students. Happy Holidays and welcome to “Part One” of a series of posts dedicated to those attempting to curate the Digital Curriculum.

Part One Digital Learning … Top 3 Resources to Discover and Curate Digital Curriculum for Teachers and Students

Please enjoy and share this post via email or a retweet. While you are at it, I would appreciate that you take a moment to subscribe to this Blog by RSS or email and follow me at (mjgormans). Also, feel free to contact me about any conference, in-service plans, or PD you might wish to include me in. (mjgormans@gmail.com). You can learn more at the Booking Link. Part One… 12 Resources to Discover and Curate Digital Curriculum for Students and Teachers -– Mike Gorman ( As education begins to embrace technology and digital resources, we as educators must also remember that these new tools allow teachers to move students at the center of their learning. Symbalooedu.com Symbaloo allows you to organize and share the best of the web with your students.

Students can also become powerful curators and collaborators with their own Symbaloo account. Diigo.com. 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. The goal is to learn how to learn, to know where to look for something and to be able to identify which parts of all the information available are most relevant to learn or achieve a certain goal or objective.This is why new digital literacy skills are of such great importance. From the New York Times: "...Mr. Aggregate, Curate and Create Your Own Textbook. One of the latest buzz words in social media is curation.

Aggregate, Curate and Create Your Own Textbook

Some media analysts ponder whether the content curator might be the next big social media job of the future. The job of curator has spread across the digital media world and may already have replaced “editor” and “publisher” in the minds of marketers and social media mavens. What are the implications of curation in education? How will content curation impact the textbook market? Will it make textbooks irrelevant? We are seeing more and more publishers jumping into the digital textbook market but so far the digital editions are mere pdf versions of the hardcover versions. The Journal’s article: 5K-12 Ed Tech Trends for 2012 includes going ‘Beyond the Digital Textbook’ as one of the trends, with the premise of adding interactivity to digital versions of textbooks. Several concerns about Apple’s new enterprise have been voiced in the blogosphere.

Is there an option for a free, relevant course companion? Strategies. The kids are curating. @hrheingold Literacies of Attention, Crap Detection, Participation & Collaboration [viz notes] @courosa #etmooc.