- Student Curators: Powerful Learning. 3 Comments March 9, 2014 By: Guest Blogger Nancy White Mar 9 Written by: 3/9/2014 2:11 PM ShareThis During the past 2 weeks, I had the pleasure of working with longtime friend and 8th grade social studies teacher extraordinaire, Terri Inloes, to transform her students into curators of information as they learned about the Social Reform movements of the late 19th century in the U.S. Day 1: The QFT By the time students get to middle school, it is rare to hear them ask questions – other than to get clarification on what needs to be done for the assignment. Day 2: Defining Curation; Creating a Research Plan Everything happens for a reason, right?
Day 3: Setting up a WordPress Blog Our school district has our own domain and server set up for WordPress blogs, and this is integrated with Active Directory, so every single teacher and student in the district already has an account set up there. Days 4- 8 Curating From Terri: Things are really crystallizing for kids. Reflection and Feedback. Understanding Content Curation. July 7, 2012 Come to my session at ISTE 2016: “Personalize Learning With Student Curation” 6/28 4:00 – 5:00 CCC 113, Table 2 There are many buzzwords and phrases prevalent in education today. “21st Century Learning”, “Blended Learning”, “Personalized Learning”, “Flipped Classroom” – just to name a few.
The one that has recently caught my attention and curiosity is “content curation.” I manage a grant project in my district designed to assure students acquire “21st century skills” A current strategy for this is using backwards design, formative assessments of 21st century skills, and “blended-learning.”
New for next school year: teachers are being asked to “curate resources” to accompany the backwards-planned, inquiry-based units of instruction. This curiosity led to further questions: Why curate? What is the value of curating for teachers? Collecting vs. Defining Curating in Education by Nancy White is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Thinking Level. Content curation in education.
I believe it would be a total waste of time to begin this post with my own definition of content curation. Since there are so many definitions that could explain this phenomenon, I decided to pick my favorite from the list of content curation definitions maintained by Robin Good (in my opinion – a guru of content curation). So, content curator “isn’t just someone who can find great “stuff” ,though it is an important skill in process of content curation. A curator is someone who creates a specific experience by using the found objects and contextualizes those objects within a limited space. A curator not only collects and interprets, but houses that work to create unique experiences.”
If I interpret this definition within education context, an educator should provide a unique learning experience by curating existing learning materials or resources. Seek – Sense – Share curation model Focus on sense making Invest time to help your student and promote students’ curation About Tadej Stanic. Why Curation Is Just as Important as Creation [OPINION] Curatingisthecure.wikispaces. - Top 10 Sites for Curating the Web. Socialmediafoundations - Curation Planning Questions. Understanding Content Curation.