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Keen | Expand your interests. Elink | Newsletter Creator, Web Page Builder, Bookmarker. To Boost Higher-Order Thinking, Try Curation. What is a LibGuide? - LibGuides @ Pitt - A Faculty Resource - LibGuides at University of Pittsburgh. Critical Thinking Tips - Evaluating Sources - Library Resources Home at Fox Valley Technical College. Clarification What do you mean by ? Could you put that another way?

Could you give me an example? Could you explain that further? ​ Probe Assumptions What are you assuming? Probe Reasons and Evidence​ How do you know? Viewpoints or Perspectives​ Can anyone see this another way? Probe Implications and Consequences What are the consequences of your assumption? Questions About the Question Why is this question important? School Librarians Advancing STEM Learning. The goal is to support professional learning cohorts to elevate and expand the role of school librarians, and transform their capacities as instructional leaders, who support advancements in STEM learning. Participants will collaboratively create and review curriculum using ISKME’s OER Commons library of freely available resources.

The resources developed will support student critical thinking, analysis, and problem solving across STEM disciplines as well as close reading of texts and math integration, in alignment with the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and state and national science standards. The project is led by ISKME, in partnership with the New Hampshire Department of Education, Granite State College, and New Hampshire's Institutions of Higher Education (IHE) Network.

The project is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Social Bookmarking with Diigo. TheUltimateEdTechChartforTeachersandEducators 2. Curation Situations: Let us count the ways. Curation is a funny word. When my colleagues and I wrote our Social Media Curation Library Technology Report for ALA, we struggled with a definition. The folks we interviewed across library land curated in several different ways and we used the term curation differently depending on current community needs or where they were in any particular project. Back in 2014, our interviews and surveys led us to a taxonomy of digital curation. K12 digital curation is about getting our users/students/teachers to the good stuff, pointing them to content and resources they might not themselves discover with their own intuitive strategies.

Curation allows us to scale our practice and reach our community 24/7 at their points of need. Social media curation efforts can help us fuel participatory culture as we build and connect communities. Curating with kids As students curate, they make decisions about authority and bias. Curating OER Beyond the basketball metaphor . . . Curation Tools and Platforms. FatURL. LibGuides by Springshare - Content Management For Libraries. February 2014: Curation Tools are Cool! I have been curating online resources since 1995– finding links for teachers, organizing them into categories, providing descriptions of the resource, and posting them on a Web site. However, that was in the Web 1.0 era when all teachers could do was read and click on my resources. Fast forward to today. There are tons of tools that allow me to easily gather links, organize them, and annotate them with information for teachers.

The big difference now is teachers can also utilize the same tools to gather, or curate, taking some from my collections, and organize them in the best way for their students. These tools used to be called social bookmarking tools, but now are more popularly known as “content curation” tools. Overview and Information Nancy White has been studying curation and is a noted expert in the field. Stacia Johnson and Melissa Marsh created a video explaining why and how they curate information and they reviewed several of the most common tools used in schools.

Curation Tools. Content curation resources. Pearltrees for teachers. Year 2012 last post is a guest post from Finnish teacher Tommi Viljakainen. He is a teacher in Elimäki lower and upper secondary school. He teaches English, French and P.E. He is also interested in social media, iPad and the future of education. You can find Tommi also in Twitter under name @tommiviljaA (Finnish) teacher's dive into social media - "I discovered pearls in Pearltrees! " 10 tips for teachers: 1. The new social media tools make it possible for us to take the learning to the next level. Links:The program:Pear app (iPad, iPhone) Me and Pearltrees:My blog writings (in Finnish) Organize - Toolkit - Research Guides at University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Classroom Aid | Tools for Curation and File Sharing. Content Curation Tools - The Newsmaster Toolkit by Robin Good.

50+ Tools to Harness The Power of The Web. January 21, 2014 In the midst of this growing tsunami of digital content, digital curations emerges as one of the pressing skills that we need to develop in order to thrive in this knowledge economy. Being able to digitally curate content empowers you with the right dispositions to enhance your overall learning and boost your professional development efforts. There are actually several web tools that you can use to discover, curate, and share content online. The collection below created by Shirley Williams presents some of the best digital curation tools out there. I invite you to have a look and share with your colleagues. Annotate, capture, organize and share your web search. Liiist - Save anything online into smart lists. CLIPZINE. Spundge — Create, Deliver and Monetize Your Content.

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