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Curation as a tool for teaching and learning (with images) · hbailie

Curation as a tool for teaching and learning (with images) · hbailie
“A curator is an expert learner. Instead of dispensing knowledge, he creates spaces in which knowledge can be created, explored, and connected.” (Siemens, 2007). According to Boyd (2010) curators help people to focus their attention on the most relevant and important information streams. Librarians, journalists, and teachers have always curated: they evaluate, select, collect, present, and promote material for their users, readers and students; but these days curation is becoming an important activity for a broad range of people and for a variety of reasons and purposes. So what is curation? Related:  Digital CurationOpen Educational Resources

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. Keeping track of all of this digital information is important – we all know how quickly our time is sapped away while searching online. Fortunately, there are a number of tools that are easy to use, and which we can use to manage our digital information, so that we can virtually ‘file’ and share with others the quality articles, resources and media to be easily drawn upon again, or to be read at a later, more suitable time. Using these tools effectively requires skills in ‘content curation’. This sounds more complex than it is. She describes these traits as the following: Keep in mind that not everyone will like every tool. Like this:

Content curation Content curation is the process of selecting, sorting and arranging content on a specific topic or theme, adding value and meaning to what has been curated for your users. Contents Defining content curationWhy curate contentPartnerships in curating contentWho can benefit from curated contentFurther reading Defining content curation Beth Kanter defines content curation as “…the process of sorting through the vast amounts of content on the web and presenting it in a meaningful and organized way around a specific theme. The curator adds value and insights to the selected content. Strong curation…also involves making decisions about what is and is not useful to deepening understanding of the subject. Content curation is not new to librarians. Teachers are also undertaking their own content curations, as well as contributing to those set up by the school librarian, and students in many schools are contributing as well. Why curate content Partnerships in curating content Further reading

Teacher as Curator: Capture and Organize Learning Materials with Web 2.0 Tools - Ted Curran.net In the 21st Century world of abundant free educational content, teachers are challenged to shed the role of “content area expert” and adopt the role of “content curator”. Part of the shifting role of teachers from “sage on the stage” to “guide on the side” means spending less time lecturing at students and more time supporting them to successfully access and think critically about content. Content curation is nothing new to teachers– whether it’s maintaining a great classroom library, hurriedly photocopying a great article you found, or organizing PDFs and YouTube videos in your online course, a big part of the job is creating an organized path through the best materials you know of. The objective here is to build up an enduring library of high quality web links, videos, articles, and online activities that “fit together” and are easy to consume as a collection. It’s not the tool, it’s how you use it The first step of curating good content is finding it. Capture Where You Read Like this:

1.1 Introduction to OER - Open Educational Resources The development of materials by instructors is an important step in learning and teaching. Good learning resources help students develop an understanding of concepts, ideas, and order of operations. With connectivity and collaboration at the fingertips of everyone with internet access, the idea of shared resources is the basis of the OER movement. With digital licenses to accompany copyright allowing for the usage, repurposing and sharing of learning resources, the network of content developers can become limitless. Activity: Watch this short video on OER: (“The OERs – Open Educational Resources.” Activity: Using this Padlet wall, record your first impressions of OER. Some questions to get you started: Going into this course, what is your knowledge of OER?

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. 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. Because group members have a place to park information and house discussions on those links, Pinterest boards can also aid in group projects.

Why is Digital Curation so Important for Educators in 2018? Image Source I’ve been working with schools, colleges and universities for nearly 8 years. Working to promote entrepreneurship and digital skills to make young people more employable and teach them how to innovate. Digital research is becoming increasingly important and educators and students need to know how to curate it. The internet represents a fundamental shift in how educators and students learn and engage their coursework, gather information, and conduct academic research. What is digital curation? Digital curation is the act of finding and selecting, grouping and contextualising, preserving, maintaining, archiving and sharing digital content. How does digital curation work? We are all familiar with the amount of data we receive from a straightforward Google search; a multiplicity of videos, websites, blogs, research papers, news media, tweets, etc. with varying degrees of relevance for our purposes. Price: FREE Price: Paid. 14 day free trial. Price: Free with paid options.

20 Tips for Creating a Professional Learning Network - Getting Smart by Miriam Clifford “20 Tips for Creating a Professional Learning Network” by Miriam Clifford first appeared on the InfomED blog. Networking is a prime form of 21st century learning. The world is much smaller thanks to technology. Learning is transforming into a globally collaborative enterprise. Take for example scientists; professional networks allow the scientific community to share discoveries much faster. Just this month, a tech news article showcased how Harvard scientists are considering that “sharing discoveries is more efficient and honorable than patenting them.” As educators, we aim to be connected to advance our craft. Learning networks are based on the theory of connectivism, or learning from diverse social webs. What are some ways to grow your PLN and improve the quality of your interactions? 10 Tips For Using PLN’s Keep the spirit of collaboration as your driving force. 10 Tools & Strategies for Establishing a Productive PLN Use Diigo, Evernote, Pocket, or Delicious to bookmark links.

OER Issues: Apples, Orchards and Infrastructure | Digital Tweed Open Education Resource (OER) advocates are gathered this week in Vancouver for the 12th annual Open Education conference. Reflecting their energy and their evangelism, the home page of the conference web site proclaims “Open Education resources provide a massive, high quality open content infrastructure on top of which innovative people and organizations are building a new generation of educational models. Methodologically rigorous research is demonstrating that these OER-based models can be extremely effective in reducing the cost of education and improving student learning.” Clearly the OER movement is fueled by good intentions and great aspirations. Several reports and events leading into this week’s Open Ed conference may help to advance the OER cause. The JCHE article is worth reading. (Sidebar: David Wiley, a corporate officer of Lumen Learning, obviously has a vested interest in research that documents the pedagogical value of OER course materials. These are overlapping issues.

Students Becoming Curators of Information? | Silvia Tolisano- Langwitches Blog Images like the following ones, visualize for me the urgency for all of us to become information literate to wade through the incredible, ever increasing, amount of information being created and shared with the world. licesed under CC by will-lion Lincensed under CC by verbeeldingskr8 We are with no doubt in the age of information overload and IN DIRE NEED of knowing how to filter in order to get to the information we need. Clay Shirky Information Overload In comes the idea of becoming a Curator of Information. “Curating” is defined in the Merriam Webster Dictionary as: Select, organize, and look after the items in (a collection or exhibition). Digital Curation, Curated Learning & Collective Curation? I have started hearing and reading about the terms “Digital Curation”, “Curated Learning” and “Collective Curation” as well. Digital Curation is defined in Wikipedia as: the selection, preservation, maintenance, collection and archiving of digital assets. Curated Learning Further Resources: Related

Why Curation Revolutionizes Education & Learning — Content Curation Official Guide Why Curation Revolutionizes Education & Learning 10 Disruptive Factors Transforming the World of Education and Learning — Consequences, Opportunities, Tools “It is the best of times. It is the worst of times. In 2020, people have access to a breadth and depth of knowledge unimaginable in an earlier age. Academia’s fortunes have waned. Why?” The world of education is being deeply and rapidly transformed much more than the majority of people presently realize. From the opportunity to easily find an appropriate learning path among the ocean of free online top university courses, to the ability to bring together valuable content from different authors into custom textbooks, from learning by diving into the subject matter at hand to curating existing educational materials into a new course, the whole spectrum of activities and interests surrounding the educational world is being rapidly transformed.

10 ways to help students develop a PLN… There has been some discussion lately about the precise meaning of the term PLN. I’m not sure why it matters actually. Like any other word in the dictionary (!) My PLN is my ‘personal learning network’. As teachers begin to let go of ‘the old way’, to relinquish control and allow kids to take responsibility for their own learning, students too need to develop a PLN. 10 ways to support students in developing a PLN… Start simply… 1. Provide opportunities for students to engage with their in-class PLN. 2. Don’t do all the talking. 3. Model what good learning looks like and sounds like. 4. Let them work with students from other classes. 5. Create global connections. 6. Invite speakers from your local community. 7. Invite parents to share in the learning, in person, or by commenting on class blogs and wikis. 8. Start a class blog. 8. Whoever’s in your PLN, you need to know how to communicate. 9. Increase awareness that learning doesn’t belong only at school. 10. 10 ways to grow as an educator

Open Learning Network | About Curation - Curating Primary Sources - LibGuides at University of South Dakota Curation - is it the new search tool (Valenza 2011), the new search (Good 2012), the future of Web 2.0 (Boyd 2010), or the new black (O'Connell 2012)? What is curation anyway, and how can it be used as a tool for student and teacher learning? Bhargava,, R. (2011, March 31). The 5 models of content curation. Influential Marketing Blog. Boyd, D. (2010). Cobb, J. (2010, March 2). Connected Learning (n.d.). Connelly, P. (2011, February 10). Fiorelli, G. (2011, September 15). Fisher, M. (2012, June 11). Fisher, M. & Tolisano, S.R. Flintoff, K., Mellow, P. & Clark, K. Gende, D. (2012, January 24). Good, R. Hague, C., & Peyton, S. (2010). Hamilton, B. Hottenstein, A. (2012). Jarche, H. (2010, October 22). Jenkins, H., Purushotma, R., Weigel, M., Clinton, K., & Robison, A. Kanter, B. (2011, January 3). Kelly, D. (2013, February). Lee, K. (2014, May 5). Mackey, T. Mihailidis, P., & Cohen, J. Mills, M. (2013). Minocha, S., & Petre, M. (2012). O’Connell, J. (2011, October 27). Sfard, A. (1998).

Curation Learning is the process of acquiring knowledge, which is an active process and operates at both individual and social levels. When it comes to information behaviour within this context there are a wide range of theories and models which represent thinking and research investigations in this field. Existing models have elements in common, though most models in library and information science focus on information seeking and the information user, while those from the field of communications focus on the communicator and the communication process. What I’m particularly interested in are the Information seeking behaviours and places of information seeking which are constantly changing, and of course growing in possibilities all the time. Our modern-day information processing is both careless in how it is consumed and how it is related back to others: rarely do we intentionally seek out an article, comb through it, and then selectively disperse it to an appropriate recipient. Yes!

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