Public Diagram - Curation workflow. The New York Times Compendium. Overview: President John F. Kennedy was informed about the deployment of Soviet medium-range missiles on Cuba shortly after 8 a.m. on the morning of Tuesday, Oct. 16, 1962. His first reaction on hearing the news from National Security Adviser McGeorge Bundy was to accuse the Soviet leader Nikita S. Khrushchev of a double-cross. "He can’t do this to me," he sputtered. Thus began the celebrated "13 days" that brought the world closer than ever before — or since — to a nuclear war, a period now remembered in the West as the Cuban Missile Crisis. Social Learning: Answers to 8 Crucial Questions. I’ve got an odd relationship with the notion of social learning. Whilst I’m often at pains to remind people that social learning is nothing new, I’m acutely aware that the term is today a much broader one than it has been in years gone by.
Influenced by a score of theorists dating back centuries, the idea that our individual learning is influenced by both our circumstances and by other people seems to be a naturally easy assumption to make. But ’social’ is something of a pariah in the corporate learning world, at least increasingly so it would seem.
Recently I worked with a partner on a pitch to a global multinational as we sought to enable more collaborative learning in the organisation. Trouble is we didn’t phrase it ‘collaborative’ we called it social. At the eleventh hour the rug was pulled from under us with the announcement that the use of all ’social’ technologies at the company were henceforth barred. FML. Personally, I class this under the ’social’ umbrella. Curation. What is curation? Curation versus aggregation represents human web versus machine web...
Curation is becoming an increasingly important term and for good reason: the online world is increasingly messy, muddled and full of blind alleys. Search used to be the best way to navigate online but today it is only one part of an Internet user's dashboard. Finding things is fine if you know what to look for, but search is increasingly less effective in judging the quality of links, or putting those links into a context. Blekko, the recently launched search engine tries to provide a context for search terms but it's still not curation but aggregation So what is curation? Here is my definition: Curation is a person or persons, engaged in the act of choosing and presenting things related to a specific topic and context.
An example of curation: the San Francisco De Young museum is exhibiting post-impressionist masterpieces from the Musée d'Orsay's permanent collection. Aggregation is the collection of as many things that can be found related to a topic. - Pearltrees is sharable and embeddable. Universal Design for Learning. Curation.
Curation And The Human Web... Posted by Tom Foremski - November 16, 2010 There is no doubt in my mind that the topic of curation and the Internet, is an important one and that it will be a dominant topic in 2011. Curation is important because we are reaching the limits of what can be achieved through algorithms and machines in organizing and navigating the Internet. Aggregation looks like curation but it's not. (Please see: Aggregation Is Not Curation - There Is A Big Difference - SVW) I define curation as a person, or a group of people, engaged in choosing and presenting a collection of things related to a specific topic and context.
Aggregation employs software (algorithms) and machines (servers) to assemble a collection of things related to a specific topic and context. Aggregation tools can be employed by curators but the human act of curation adds a layer of value that aggregation alone cannot provide. A good example is Techmeme, the news aggregator run by Gabe Rivera. However, such approaches reach a natural limit. Curation: The Next Big Thing?