Chapter 4: Curation in School Libraries | Valenza | Library Technology Reports The school librarians featured in this chapter describe the value of curation to a school’s learning culture. Their efforts ensure that their investment in e-books, databases, and homegrown instructional content is scaled, embedded, and discoverable whenever students need it. Their efforts support flipped and hybrid learning. They use new strategies to display and juxtapose books and other media face-out in imaginative genre gatherings perhaps never before physically arranged. Curation for Students Shannon McClintock Miller, Van Meter (IA) School (May 22, 2014) Teachers and librarians see the value of developing and modeling the creation of dashboards of resources or launchpads for their learners. SMM: Symbaloo, the amazing digital social bookmarking tool, has become one that we cannot live without at Van Meter School. Ann Yawornitsky, Wilson School District, West Lawn, PA (February 25, 2014) BB: How do you define curation? Why reinvent the wheel? Curation for Students and by Students K.
Learning the art of Digital Content Curation | LinkingLearning It is undeniable that we live in a world of information overload. Check out Internet Live Stats to be truly ‘infowhelmed’! Just one second of internet traffic…. As busy people, it is often at precisely the wrong time that we find that fascinating article, or when we are looking for something else that we discover a great resource for the future. Using these tools effectively requires skills in ‘content curation’. This sounds more complex than it is. Content curation has always occurred in schools – resources were always gathered around the topic of teaching, in order to support and extend student understandings. Students too can benefit from learning effective curation skills as being able to quickly and critically evaluate a range of information sources, and then curate these into a meaningful collection is a vital research skill. She describes these traits as the following: Keep in mind that not everyone will like every tool. The right tool for the right purpose. Like this:
Ethics, Equity, and Critical Information Literacy in the School Library While school librarians typically are well exposed to issues surrounding censorship and selection, less attention is paid to the ethics of librarianship and how those play out in the specialized context of school libraries. Attention to the ALA Code of Ethics and the ALA Bill of Rights set the foundation for careful reflection on the role of the school librarian, particularly in relation to the role of libraries in a democratic society. Issues of equity are [inherent] in library service and attention to the dimensions of meaning and implications of the word “equity” is warranted. This module situates equity in the context of educational equity, and the alignment of libraries as gateways to opportunity and education as the pathway to opportunity. Library and school library publications are increasingly recognizing the relevance of social justice to librarianship, as evidenced by a survey of library journals this past year. Learning Objectives:
Chapter 3: Curation in Public Libraries | Valenza | Library Technology Reports We encountered a refreshing playfulness and a willingness to experiment and create in our public library conversations. Interviews with Billy Parrott of New York Public Library’s Picture Collection and with Amy Sonnie, Teen Outreach Librarian, and Meredith Sires, Teen Services department intern, of Oakland Public Library, reveal how social media curation, particularly using Pinterest and Instagram, can highlight areas of the collection and engage communities. Billy Parrott’s curation involves items that are not actually in the collection but are related to it and designed to create conversations around it. He demonstrates the role personality plays in social media curation, showing that your brand has the potential to reach well beyond your initially conceived audience. In addition to engaging teens with their creative social media curation efforts, the OPL TeenZone librarians value the professional collaborative efforts they see in the youth services community. BP: Do what you love.
Teaching Content Curation Skills To Students In my last piece, I discussed why content curation was an essential skill and discussed ways teachers could use Pinterest to curate content for students. Modeling this skill for students is important, but giving them the knowledge to do it themselves is crucial. The ability to sort through many sources for high-quality information was always the goal of library time and research notecards, but today’s students need tech-based content curation skills. Many of the best and most popular programs for this are widely available for free online. Students can learn to manage information with Pinterest Pinterest can be an excellent place to begin teaching students to do their own content curation, though the site’s minimum age requirement of 13 can interfere with younger students’ ability to use this technology. In addition to actively engaging students in learning, this method also ensures that specific student needs are being addressed. Diigo: the No. 1 content curation tool for educators
Open Educational Resources and School Librarians - The Right Fit! The key to solving a puzzle is to find the pieces that fit together! The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) consists of several pieces — one being placing emphasis on personalized learning for students supported by the use of openly licensed digital content. ESSA authorizes a formula-based funding source for states and school districts interested in using openly licensed digital content and related professional development to support teaching and learning. So What Are OER? OER are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others. Why Use Openly Licensed Educational Resources? The Right Fit for School Librarians – Lead the Digital Transition! Learn all about OER, local and state initiatives, and how you can support the transition to digital resource use to personalize learning in your school. Author: AASL Vision for Implementing ESSA Like this:
Chapter 9: Conclusion: Issues and Trends | Valenza | Library Technology Reports Should we accept them, librarians have unlimited opportunities for leadership in social media curation, functioning as guides, information brokers, interpreters, storytellers, innovators, teachers, marketers, networkers, and connectors. What Maria Popova calls “an increasingly valuable form of creative and intellectual labor, a form of authorship” is an area we cannot ignore. In our areas of expertise, for users we know so well, we should not be abdicating these activities to others. In his Fifth Law of Library Science, Ranganathan embraces the notion of agility. Social Media Curation Is a Thing Our conversations with librarians across ALA’s divisions point to potential. Our relevance is connected to our roles as content filters for our communities—professional and institutional. Our case-study interviews point to the notion that social media curation liberates librarians from levels of editorial restraints. Our digital efforts transform brick-and-mortar practice. Keeping It Fresh
What is content curation? Why does it matter to teachers? The term "curate" has become a buzzword in education. I've seen it referenced in TEDx Talks and tossed around in Twitter chats. A few years ago, the term "curation" would have conjured up images of art galleries but now I associate it with conversations about the future of education. And yet . . . I'm really drawn toward an archaic definition of the term. It originally had a much more earthy, even gritty, connotations. Over time, this word morphed into an intense care and love for a particular subject, knowledge, or set of artistic works. This is something often overlooked in the conversations about education and curation. While I see some validity in this sentiment, I think it proves that now more than ever, teachers need to be curators. What does curation typically look like? Content curation begins with an intense love of the content. Curators have a holistic, connected knowledge combined with thoughtful commentary. Favorite Education Curators Favorite General Curators
Thing 29: OER – Open Educational Resources No doubt you’ve searched the web looking for material to adapt and/or re-use in your teaching. With any luck, the resources you’ve found have clearly stated that you’re free to re-use/adapt the material for your own uses. But too often, there is no clear indication of copyright or re-use restrictions. The OER (Open Educational Resources) movement seeks to help with the problem of creating and finding shareable educational materials that educators can re-use, edit and adapt for their own classroom, teaching & learning needs. The types of materials available can range from single worksheets and lesson plans through unit plans, textbooks and full semester/year long curricula. Why use OER? Sharing resources is obviously a huge time saver for educators. Open Educational materials are part of the larger Open Education movement. More on Creative Commons Licenses Other type of Creative Commons licenses address: Our Cool Tools workshop is an example of an OER. Readings Top Tools More resources Save
The 5 Models Of Content Curation Curation has always been an underrated form of creation. The Getty Center in Los Angeles is one of the most frequently visited museums in America – and started as a private art collection from one man (J. Paul Getty) who had a passion for art. One of the hottest trends in social media right now is content curation – thanks in no small part to the leading efforts of several thought leaders actively promoting the idea. What Is Content Curation? Back in 2009 I published a blog post called the “Manifesto For The Content Curator” which predicted that this role would be one of the fastest growing and most important jobs of the future. Content Curation is a term that describes the act of finding, grouping, organizing or sharing the best and most relevant content on a specific issue. The 5 Models Of Content Curation Content curation is certainly an emerging space and one where more and more thought leaders will continue to share their voices. Interested in learning more about content curation?
5 Reasons you need to be a Content Curator | Big Ideas in Education No doubt about it, Content Curation is one of the most important digital skills of our time. The basic fact is that Curation is a strategy that we need just to begin to implement and sift through all of the information online.The following explains the top reasons why we need to engage in quality content curation as educators and as learners! Content Curation and Information Literacy The Top 5 Reasons to be a Content Curator. 1. We have the technology. 2. We need to be curators to manage the deluge of information on the internet. 3. Content curation is more than just social media and keeping tabs of friends and trends. 4. Creating content on the internet is at an all time high. 5. We ask our questions, we research, and we make connections that had never existed before. Regardless of the curation tool we ultimately use, the core skills remain the same. Deborah McCallum c 2015 Like this: Like Loading... Related Information-Processing in the Digital Age: Beginning with Content Curation
HyperDocs and the teacher librarian The concept of HyperDocs is spreading all over edtech land. HyperDocs are perfect opportunities to grow teacher librarian/ classroom teacher partnerships. A true extension of what TLs do or should be doing in a hyperlinked information landscape, HyperDocs are all about curation and collaboration, instruction based on engaged inquiry, as well as our mission to inspire learning communities to think, create, share and grow. While it’s quite possible you’ve been building HyperDocs-like instruction for years on a variety of platforms, we can now connect our work to an accepted model and a growing and generous community! What are HyperDocs? According to the HyperDocs site, HyperDocs, a transformative, interactive Google Doc replacing the worksheet method of delivering instruction, is the ultimate change agent in the blended learning classroom. I recently interviewed the three teachers behind the HyperDocs model. Lisa Highfill, Kelly Hilton and Sarah Landis ask the simple, but provocative question:
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