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Exploring Curation as a core competency in digital and media literacy education
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Robin Good: "7 Things You Should Know About Social Content Curation" is a technology brief from Educause which aims to introduce, explain and illustrate the emerging social curation trend and why it is relevant to teaching and learning.
From the official abstract: "An emerging class of online tools, including Pinterest, Scoop.it, EduClipper, and others, allows users to quickly and easily gather, organize, and share collections of online resources, particularly visual content.
These applications make it easy to collect and post disparate bits of content, providing visual groupings at a glance that can reveal important patterns.
In academic settings, they can facilitate more visual thinking and discussion among students while providing a means to share collections of online content."
Informative. Good introductory text. 7/10
ePUB: http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/epub/ELI7089.epub
PDF: http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7089.pdf
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Robin Good: What is it more important?
To refine a science of how to transmit, explain and illustrate what "needs to be known" or that we empower learners to create their own learning direction, approach, scaffolding and pace, by providing them with the ability to "drive" and "build" their learning value and not by having them become open sponges that memorize and comprehend what we offer them?
From the original article by Dominik Lukes: "A self-directed, self-motivated learner, will take any resources (no matter how pedagogically naive or badly instructionally designed – Khan Academy, iTunesU lectures, iPad ebooks, labs, conventional classes or TED videos) and use them to learn.
As the learner becomes more aware of their own learning (gaining metacognitive skills), they will look for resources that suit their learning better. And, in many cases, will create such resources.
That’s why we need to encourage a culture of the remix. Or in starker terms: Curation and creation over education."
Rightful. 7/10
Full article: http://researchity.net/2012/08/15/zero-pedagogy-a-hyperbolic-case-for-curation-and-creation-over-education/
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Robin Good: To be "in the know" is today often mistaken with being up-to-date. That is, having browsed and read what mainstream and social media have been serving lately.
But what is more important? Knowing the latest gossip and the hot issues on the Silicon Valley tech table or being able to understand in depth a topic and being abe to articulate a personal position relative to it?
It is on these matters that Andrew Battista, Assistant Professor, Information Literacy and Reference Librarian at the University of Montevallo in Alabama has wanted to focus the attention of his curation students, by writing an interesting article.
In it, he provides a short 1':53" short video (not visible to EU-based viewers due to rights-restrictions) extracted from a commercial TV series. In the clip, friends at a bar discuss over who is most in the know by referencing a bunch of articles and stories they have recently read.
Here Prof. Battista insightful comments: "What’s valued today is our ability to recognize surface-level bits of knowledge, and what we’ve lost, perhaps, is the ability to make, deep, meaningful connections between the things we read and the complex problems we face in the world.
Of course, it’s simply not realistic to expect that one person could possibly keep pace with all of the content in the publications Fred and Carrie list, which are but a sliver of all of the great journalism, blog writing, podcasts, news, and information that gets churned out every day.
Perhaps what is really being parodied here is the mistaken notion that one has to stay current with everything in order to come across as smart to one’s friends.
It’s just not possible, and we know that in this age of a swirling vortex of information, we have to find the right balance between knowing what the general buzz is and latching on to some information that we can use deeply.
This, in a nutshell, is the central challenge of information literacy, and I believe that curation, or the process of making decisions about what is good and what isn’t, is an integral skill for all citizens of the digital age that can help us become more information literate."
Recommended. 8/10
Full article + video (available only to US viewers): http://www.curationculture.org/archives/251#more-251
(Image credit: Literacy "Curation" Badge from the course taught by Prof. Battista - see CurationCulture.org)
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Robin Good: I may be completely off the bat, but the new iTunes U Course Manager looks like a great new opportunity for teachers, professors and educators of all kind, to curate online courses that bring together the best learning materials available on a topic, and which can be accessed by anyone iOS, Mac or PC with iTunes installed.
With it you can upload any learning material you own while being able to add any additional materials (books, documents, video, audio, images, web pages and apps of your choice coming both from the iBookstore, the App Store or the iTunes store as well as from the web or from your own computer. Check this screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/Hwfjq.jpg
Given the above, any teacher using this new iTunes U authoring platform can effectively "curate" an online course that contains the very best resources and materials that one has been able to identify and bring together.
From TheNextWeb: "Apple’s iTunes U now lets teachers create their own courses for iPad, the company revealed on its site.
In practical terms, this means that students and pupils will be able to access this content on their tablet via the iTunes U app.
Teachers interested in using this feature need to register on iTunes U’s Course Manager page via Safari.
While the functionality is available for free, teachers not affiliated with schools that have public iTunes U sites will be limited to 12 courses and 50 students per course, Apple says." Source: TheNextWeb
in iTunes U you can choose under which type of license you want to release your course: both All Rights Reserved and six flavors of Creative Commons licenses are available.
"iTunes U is a free service hosted by Apple that allows instructors, administrators, and affiliates to manage, distribute, and control access to educational audio and video content for students within a college or university."
Find out more: https://www.apple.com/support/itunes-u/course-manager/
iTunes U Course Manager: https://itunesu.itunes.apple.com/coursemanager/
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Robin Good: During the recent virtual and live conference Emerge2012, in which I had the opportunity to run a workshop on Content Curation for Education, I have collaboratively started a collection of great examples of curation for education.
My goal was the one of showcasing some good examples of curated collection that were either focusing on education or that some clear education use/application.
It is a starting point.
Suggestions on what would be valuable to add, to my initial set of examples are highly welcome. Use the comments section here below or send a tweet to @robingood.
Original map: http://www.mindomo.com/mindmap/curation-in-education-great-examples-17e12a3a798f4bdf8d07552e7f610f65
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Robin Good: Must-read article on ClutterMuseum.com by Leslie M-B, exploring in depth the opportunity to have students master their selected topics by "curating" them, rather than by reading and memorizing facts about them.
"Critical and creative thinking should be prioritized over remembering content"
"That students should learn to think for themselves may seem like a no-brainer to many readers, but if you look at the textbook packages put out by publishers, you’ll find that the texts and accompanying materials (for both teachers and students) assume students are expected to read and retain content—and then be tested on it.
Instead, between middle school (if not earlier) and college graduation, students should practice—if not master—how to question, critique, research, and construct an argument like an historian."
This is indeed the critical point. Moving education from an effort to memorize things on which then to be tested, to a collaborative exercise in creating new knowledge and value by pulling and editing together individual pieces of content, resources and tools that allow the explanation/illustration of a topic from a specific viewpoint/for a specific need.
And I can't avoid to rejoice and second her next proposition: "What if we shifted the standards’ primary emphasis from content, and not to just the development of traditional skills—basic knowledge recall, document interpretation, research, and essay-writing—but to the cultivation of skills that challenge students to make unconventional connections, skills that are essential for thriving in the 21st century?"
What are these skills, you may ask. Here is a good reference where to look them up: http://www.p21.org/storage/documents/P21_Framework_Definitions.pdf (put together by the Partnership for 21st Century Skills)
Recommended. Good stuff. 9/10
Full article: www.cluttermuseum.com/make-students-curators/
(Image credit: Behance.net)
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Robin Good: I believe that content curation will play a very important role in the future of education and learning and this presentation-map focuses on this topic.
I have identified at least ten reasons that are transforming and weakening the education-certification system as it is now, and may rapidly give way to new ways of teaching, learning and getting certified which will likely involve a great deal of curation (both for those who teach/guide and those who want to learn).
In this presentation-map I am introducing the concept of curation for education, the key factors that I see are transforming traditional academic institutions and the learning industry in general, and the tools, resources and examples that are relevant to those working in these fields and wanting to find out more.
As part of my workshop session during the emerge2012 conference in which I have first presented these ideas, I have also created an "open", collaborative wiki-map where, you are welcome to contribute inspiring curated collections. You will find instructions on how to contribute to it at the end of this presentation.
Full presentation-map: http://www.mindomo.com/mindmap/content-curation-for-education-and-learning-robin-good-emerge2012-98ccaad217074a07b9bff8b76effab8e
"What is content curation in the context of education and why it is going to be so relevant in the near future. Benefits of content curation, examples and tools."
Emerge2012 Conference
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Robin Good: Next Tuesday, July 10th I will be running a live online workshop on "content curation for education and learning" as part of the e/merge 2012 web conference.
My session (90 mins.) will focus on defining curation within an educational/learning context and analyzing the factors that will rapidly make curation a major new interest area. I will look at the key benefits that content curation may bring, as well as at the types of content curation that are possible and the key tools available to do it.
I will finally showcase a few interesting examples of curation at work, before diving into a "live" collaborative session in which I will be joined by participants in the creation of a collection of great examples of curated content for education/learning.
A follow-up Q&A session is sheduled for the following week on Tue 17 at 12:15 GMT+2
e/merge 2012 is the fourth virtual conference on educational technology in Africa and builds on the e/merge conferences in 2004, 2006 and 2008.
e/merge 2012 which takes place online from 9 – 20 July 2012, is primarily designed to share good practice and knowledge about educational technology innovation within the further and higher education sectors in the region, as well as to strengthen communities of researchers and practitioners.
The e/merge 2012 conference is organised by Tony Carr and the Centre for Educational Technology at the University of Cape Town.
Live session: 10 July from 12.30 – 2 pm GMT+2
Q&A: 17 July from 12.15 pm – 1.00 pm GMT+2
More info: http://emerge2012.net/workshops/content-curation-robin-good/
Workshops agenda: http://emerge2012.net/workshops/
Programme: http://emerge2012.net/provisional-emerge-2012-schedule/
Registration page: http://emerge2012.net/registration/ (The event is free for participants based in Africa.
Participants from other regions – R750 (apx US $100)
Event general info: http://emerge2012.net
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Overview of how Avoca's education search engine lets students, teachers and parents search, manage and share millions of education resources and online lessons
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Robin Good: I just discovered that Dr Corinne Weisgerber, a social media professor and Internet researcher at St. Edward’s University in Austin, has introduced this year a "curation assignment" in her social media class with the specific goal of utilizing a curation approach to instigate a more effective learning experience.
She writes: "To talk content curation, we really need to think through the duties of a museum curator for a second. A curator scours the art world, selects the finest works, gathers them together around a unified theme, provides a frame to understand the artists’ messages and then hosts a conversation around the collection.
That’s not unlike the 21st century teacher who must comb through an overabundance of information to discover the significant and relevant, bundle those ideas into course modules, contextualize them for the class and then create an environment for students to explore those ideas and enter into a conversation about them.
Over the last couple of years, I’ve come to think of my role as a teacher as that of a curator of ideas (also see my SXSWedu presentation on the topic).
I’ve also come to believe that the steps involved in the curation process are key new media literacies which we should teach our students.
That’s why this spring, I introduced a brand-new curation assignment (described on the back of the syllabus) in my social media class."
Worth imitating. 8/10
Check out also Dr Weisberger excellent presentation here: http://www.slideshare.net/corinnew/building-thought-leadership-through-content-curation
Full article: http://academic.stedwards.edu/socialmedia/blog/2012/04/16/teaching-students-to-become-curators-of-ideas-the-curation-project-3/
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Robin Good: Mobento is a hub of curated educational video clips integrating a special search engine capable of finding any word spoken inside the video collection and of visualizing where the words were spoken on a timeline.
From the official site: "This is a library and a library has librarians. That’s us. We’ll be rigorous in only uploading high quality, fascinating videos from established academic institutions and learning organizations."
FAQ: http://www.mobento.com/faq
Try it out now: http://www.mobento.com/
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Robin Good: It really feels a bit awkard for me to point you to an article about me, but fate wanted that Jay Cross (e-learning - informal-learning senior explorer) and his curiosity to find out more about curation (something he admittedly he didn't think to have anything extra to learn about), led him to discover something "good".
I leave it to you to slide through this personal recount of how the discovery of my curated "presentation-map" led to such satisfying a-ah moments for Jay.
He writes: "Curation is a fine teacher.
Everyone should learn to curate — and share their interpretation of the world. We’re all in this together.
I’ve been ruminating about what people really need in their learning toolkit to be self-sufficient, effective, turned-on learners. I may write a book on it. Every independent learner needs these “pull skills.”
Building and maintaining one’s collection and personal gallery would teach a lot of skills and also yield a wonderful learning record / scrapbook / diary / album.
A good curator would not put up with the continual revisiting and forgetting that haunts the poor curator. What I wouldn’t give for a massive wiki of all the rules of thumb and information I’ve let slip through my fingers!"
Full article: http://www.internettime.com/2012/08/curation-education-and-robin-good/
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Robin Good: Content curation will play a major role both in the way we "teach" and in the way we educate ourselves on any topic. When and where it will be adopted, it will deeply affect many key aspects of the educational ecosystem.
This article, builds up over my recent presentation on Content Curation for Education that I delivered at Emerge2012 virtual conference.
In that presentation I claimed that the adoption of "curation approaches" will directly affect the way competences are taught, how textbooks are put together, how students are going to learn about a subject, and more than anything, the value that can be generated for "others" through a personal learning path.
If we learn not by memorizing facts, but by collaborating with others in the creation of a meaningful collection-explanations of specific topics/issues/events then, for the first time in history, we can enrich planetary knowledge each time we take on a new learning task.
And it's already happening.
Yes, we are only at the very early stages, but, in my humble opinion, there are enough signs and indications that this is not going to be something marginal.
In this article I outline ten key factors, already at work, which, among others, will very likely pave the way for a much greater and rapid adoption of curation practices in the educational / academic world.
Full article: http://www.masternewmedia.org/curation-for-education-and-learning/
(Image credit: Shutterstock)
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Robin Good: Originally conceived as a home work and study help site, the new Hippocampus has officially redirected its focus to match its users most typical use: a content resource hub for teachers looking for relevant content to mix-in into their class curriculum or into their assignable homeworks.
There are two important features available for registered users.
a) You can "customize" the Hippocampus site by picking which content materials to keep and which to exclude and create basically a personalized version of it for your own class / use.
b) You can create custom playlists of learnig content to produce course materials or work assignments.
Subjects already covered on the site include math, natural sciences, social sciences, humanities and offer a selection of video presentations, worked examples, interactive simulations, and test preps.
From the official site:
-> MIX your own media Playlists using content from any collection
-> TRACK what media is "trending" this week for your subject area
-> FIND what media is rated highest by other HippoCampus users
-> SHARE your curated HippoCampus playlist and selections with your students and colleagues
Available collections include content from the Khan Academy, NROC, PhET and NORA.
Free to use.
User's Guide: http://www.hippocampus.org/help.pdf
Introductory webinar: https://sas.elluminate.com/p.jnlp?psid=2011-09-22.1100.M.40FB21CD9A473E3451158B35D73286.vcr
Try it out now: http://www.hippocampus.org/
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Robin Good: Here is a good example of video curation at work. CoFounder.tv is a video web site curating only the best and most inspiring entrepreneurship video clips. From startuppers, to investors and VCs, the growing collection strives to bring together a variety of viewpoints from those who have been there.
The curated video site is maintained by Rony El-Nashar, a VC at Dubai based SeedStartup, a startup accelerator and seed venture fund that invests in early-stage startups from all around the world. He writes: "My goal with Cofounder TV is to build a resource that educates and inspires entrepreneurs globally."
Right on track. A pioneering example of what you are going to see in place of blogs soon. 9/10
Check it out: http://cofounder.tv/
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Robin Good: Cloudscapes are collections of "clouds" about a certain topic. A "cloud" can be anything of relevance to learning and teaching clike an essay, a presentation, a resource, tool or event.
A cloudscape is therefore a user-driven collection of learning materials/resources pulled together for a specific need.
A cloudscape contains multiple elements: 1) Content - the actual text content 2) Cloudstream - tracking all the editing activities in the collection 3) Clouds - individual information objects 4) related Tweets 5) an RSS feed 6) a discussion area
Cloudworks, the platform where cloudscapes are born, is an open repository of educational and learning materials that motivates participants to share, find and discuss learning and teaching ideas.
Although the word "curation" is never used on the site or in the related documentation, this is yet another example of how the convergence of open repositories, open content and sharing platforms like this one, provide a natural and fertile ground for spontaneous curation approaches.
On this platform users can create topical learning collections by bringing together a selected set of existing content resources.
Cloudworks is developed by the Institute of Educational Technology at The Open University in the UK and it is part of the Open University Learning Design Initiative (OULDI) project.
Example of a cloudscape: http://cloudworks.ac.uk/cloudscape/view/2035
More info: http://cloudworks.ac.uk/
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Robin Good: Beeclip EDU is a web app which allows anyone to easily combine images, video and texts to create instructional scrapbooks, moodboards, collages or portfolios.
Images can be easily searched and imported via Google Images and Flickr, and text can be easily added in a number ways. Visual objects can be positioned and personalized on the page and final scrapbooks can be downloaded or printed.
Free to use. Can be tested without registering.
Learn how to use it: http://edu.beeclip.com/about/help
FAQ: http://edu.beeclip.com/about/faq
Find out more: http://edu.beeclip.com/
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Robin Good: I think Sam Gliksman has a vital point here.
The point is this: there is no better way to learn something than to research, organize and build a personal framework of information, facts, resources, tools and stories around it.
And yes, if I do think about it, I can only confirm that my in my experience this has certainly been the case.
Rather than learn by memorizing and going through a predetermined path that someone else has arbitrarily set for me (and thousands of others), by curating my own learning path and curriculum, I am forced to dive into discovery and sense-making for the very start, two essential ingredients for effective learning.
The change is evident: from passive memorization of predetermined info, to personal exploration, discovery and sense-making of what I am interested in pursuing.
With such an approach, the replacement of classic teachers with curators who can act as guides, coaches and wise advisors to my exploratory wanderings may be vital to the success of many learners.
Curation can therefore be a revolutionary concept applicable both to learners and their approach as well as to the new "teachers" who need to become trusted guides in specific areas of interest.
Here's the text excerpt from this article, that sparked in me these ideas: "Reliance on any type of course textbook – digital, multimedia, interactive or otherwise – only fits as a more marginal element in student-centered learning models.
It’s not the nature of the textbook as much as its reverence in the classroom as “the” singular authority for learning.
Lifelong learners need to be skilled in finding, filtering, collating, evaluating, collaborating, editing, analyzing and utilizing information from a multitude of sources.
Instead we could prioritize “content construction”. Textbooks are an important gateway - a starting point from which students can learn and then begin their exploration of information on any topic (although even on that point I feel we should encourage the “critical reading” of textbooks).
However the days when students could responsibly rely on any textbook as a singular information source are gone.
Also, the process of accessing, synthesizing and utilizing information is often as important as the product.
The skills developed are an essential component of education and life today.
We have access to an exponentially growing amount of information to process and apply [and] there are many excellent tools we can all use to help in constructing and organizing that content."
Insightful. Informative. 8/10
Full original article: http://ipadeducators.ning.com/profiles/blogs/supplementing-textbooks
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This is an evergreen interesting topic. I was especially intrigued with the title up above that said "Social Media Job of The Future". There might be a lot of prescience (sp?) in that choice of words.
Anything from LnD Dave is pure hold and very practical. Enjoy'
A GREAT resource for the buzzword "Content Curation." Finally!