Robin Good: School librarians may be one of the new change-making roles in the educational revolution silently taking place. Their role as organizers, collectors and guides to relevant information is a skillset that is not only in growing demand by the marketplace, but which perfectly fits the learning needs of today students / tomorrow information workers.
Joyce Valenza and Shannon Miller, who recently presented at the Building Learning Communities conference, think that we are about to witness a "golden age" of librarianship and that there are five skills that information / school librarians need to cultivate.
The first of these is curation.
"Given the unprecedented quantity of information learners are exposed to, the librarian’s role is more important than ever.
Librarians help all students gain access to, evaluate, ethically use, create, share, and synthesize information.
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Students have long documented their research in notebooks, bibliographies, and research papers, but the presenters described these containers as inadequate for the digital landscape.
In the 20th century, content was king, but in this millennium, curation has emerged as the new monarch.
Valenza and Miller highlighted emerging technologies that help students showcase their progress as they acquire, organize, contextualize, and archive both existing content and new learning.
...The presenters stressed the value of teaching learners to purposefully contribute to society’s collective intelligence.
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School librarians, with their specialized training and background in collecting, organizing, preserving, and disseminating information, must now teach their patrons—students and educators alike—to perform these tasks."
Relevant. 7/10
Full article: http://www.eschoolnews.com/2012/08/02/five-key-roles-for-21st-century-school-librarians/
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Wonderful school project uses musical performance to promote the value of curation for learning.
From an original idea by @JoyceValenza.
(2011)
Lyrics:
Curation, Curation Curation!
Curation, Curation. Curation!
Who day and night must aggregate the content, pull together knowledge, harness all the feeds
And who must make sense of media, tags, and text, keeping learners up to date, at school
Librarian, Librarian
Curation!
Librarian, Librarian,
Curation!
Who do we rely on for creative stuff
What’s best so we avoid the fluff?
Who must point the way to stuff that’s good enough
So we don’t miss the stuff that’s really buff!
The Network, the Network. Curation!
The Network, the Network, Curation!
At ten my three-ring notebook really held all my school stuff.
I know by now that binder can’t contain my research
The student, the student. Curation!
The student, the student. Curation!
And who does TL teach to curate with new tools,
So we can gather knowledge both in and out of school?
The learner, the learner! Curation!
The learner, the learner! Curation!
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Starring:
Ben Vizzachero
Emma Coltoff
Jelli Vezzosi
Jordi Shuster
Daniel MacFarland
Thanks to Monica Femovich
Song parody by
Joyce Kasman Valenza.
Based on "Tradition" and "Matchmaker" from Fiddler on the Roof.
Music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick.
Republished and subtitled with permission.
Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial
More info: http://blogs.slj.com/neverendingsearch/2011/10/22/curation-the-musical/