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Robin Good
July 16, 2013 10:15 AM
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Robin Good's insight:
How can content curation be used in education to support and enhance the development of new media literacy skills?
Paul Mihailidis from the Department of Marketing Communication at Emerson College in tandem with James N Cohen from the School of Communication at Hofstra University, have outlined six different ways in which content curation can be utilized as a key methodology to develop critical thinking, analysis and communication skills.
Their analysis is based on the actual use of Storify, a content curation tool, for specific educational objectives.
Useful as a reference framework for introducing content curation within pedagogical programmes. 8/10
Full white paper: http://www-jime.open.ac.uk/article/2013-02/html
Other formats available here: http://www-jime.open.ac.uk/jime/article/view/2013-02#.UdYEmfBnbuI
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To read.
Curation can be used as an authentic activity with many disciplines to enable students to critically evaluate resources for a common interest. Would like to hear more about discipline based projects.
I am eager to delve into this further....