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Presented by Angel Somers
Media Specialist
West Long Branch Public School
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Curating Learning Resources
February 6, 2014
Curating Learning Resources
Presented by Angel Somers
21st Century learning environments require that both students and teachers be skilled at:•finding •filtering •collating•evaluating •and utilizing information from multiple sources
cu·rate2
ˈkyo͝oˌrāt/verbgerund or present participle: curating1.1.2.select, organize, and look after the items in (a collection or exhibition).3."both exhibitions are curated by the museum's director"
Definition
Learning to Filter Information
We can use curation tools to inspire aggregate, integrate, and apply new knowledge and skills to our repertoire of teaching skills.
http://www.ht2.co.uk/ben/?p=527
Curation Matrix created by Ben Betts from HT2
We will concentrate on 4 ways to use curation tools:
1.To create a Personal Learning Network ( PLN)2.To collaborate and share with other professionals3.To aggregate sources for student use.4.To create critical thinking lessons for students.
Examples
•Symbaloo
•Only2clicks
•Delicious
•diigo
•Livebinders
•YouTube
•Slideshare
•Tweet Deck
•Libguides
Curating for Personal InspirationWe engage in this type of curation when the work is done by others and we access their collected content without making new meaning .
http://www.designedforlearning.co.uk/create-or-curate/
SAMPLES
•Wikis
•Diigo
•Livebinders
•Pearltrees
•Scoopit
•Zite
•Storify
•Paper.li
Curating for professional collaboration
We engage in this type of curating when we create content specifically to share with others.
Examples
•Wikis
•Livebinders• 6th Grade Geography
• 4th gr SS Unit
• 8th
grade literature study
•Only2Clicks
•Symbaloo
Curating for Student Use
EXAMPLES
•Only2clicks
•Wikis
•Themeefy
•Educlipper
Students as Curators
In her article, “Developing Future Workskills Through Content Curation” Nancy White, a learning consultant with Innovations in Education , outlines 10 different competencies that can be developed in students through the use of curation projects:
• Sensemaking• Computational Thinking• New media literacy• Transdisciplinary• Cognitive load management• Social intelligence• Adaptive thinking• Design mindset• Cross Cultural competency• Virtual Collaboration
What do students learn?
Selecting the Right Tool
Presented by Angel Somers
1. Import/Export features
Can you import from existing collections or will information stream to you?
2. Organization of contentHow many ways can you organize content? Can you copy, move, or create subsets?
3. Clipping Content Can you clip easily? Is there a bookmarklet? What can you clip?
Selecting the Right Tools
4. Searching for contentCan you search within the site? What other sources can you search and what kinds of content can you search?
5. Content monitoring Can you subscribe to receive content? Will it suggest content?
6. Filters What filters are available?
Selecting the Right Tools
7. Display and arrangement
Can you design your own display? Can you rearrange the content?
8. Navigation Is it easy to navigate particularly with larger collections?
9. Editing Can you edit the content being curated?
Selecting the Right Tools
10. Collaboration and/or PrivacyCan multiple people add to the collection? Is it possible to tag some content as private?
11. Memory How much does the site recall?
12. Citing Sources Are the images and content automatically credited?
Selecting the Right Tools
13. Archiving How can you be sure that content will be stored long term?
14. Sharing Can you publish your curated content?
15. Price Is it a free service? Can you get it as a free trial? Is an education version available?
Hands-on Time!Go to : http://goo.gl/KAGXku
Asay, Matt. "Shirky: Problem Is Filter Failure, Not Info Overload." CNET News. CBS Interactive, 13 Jan. 2009. Web. 01 Feb. 2014. <http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10142298-16.html>."Curation Tools." Weblogpost. WebTools4u2use. N.p., 2014. Web. 01 Feb. 2014 <http://webtools4u2use.wikispaces.com/Curation+Tools>.Curran, John. "Create or Curate?" Designed for Learning. Designed for Learning, 17 Oct. 2012. Web. 11 Jan. 2014.
<http://www.designedforlearning.co.uk/create-or-curate/>.Good, Robin. "Content Curation Tools: 21 Criteria To Select And Evaluate Your Ideal One." Robin Good's Master New
Media. Master New Media, 07 Jan. 2014. Web. 01 Feb. 2014. <http://www.masternewmedia.org/content-curation-tools-selection-criteria-to-evaluate/>.
Mihailidis, Paul, and John N. Cohen. "Exploring Curation as a Core Competency in Digital and Media Literacy Education | Mihailidis | Journal of Interactive Media in Education." Journal of Interactive Media in Education (2013): n. pag. Exploring Curation as a Core Competency in Digital and Media Literacy Education | Mihailidis | Journal of Interactive Media in Education. Feb. 2013. Web. 01 Feb. 2014. <http://www-
jime.open.ac.uk/jime/article/viewArticle/2013-02/html>."Pinterest: A Curation Tool in Education." - EdTechReview™ (ETR). World Wide Learn, 25 May 2013. Web. 01 Feb. 2014.
<http://edtechreview.in/news/news/products-apps-tools/346-use-of-pinterest-in-education>.Shirkey, Clay. "Web 2.0 Expo NY: Clay Shirky (shirky.com) It's Not Information Overload. It's Filter Failure." YouTube.
YouTube, 19 Sept. 2008. Web. 01 Feb. 2014. <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LabqeJEOQyI>."UAF ELearning Instructor Training Online." Reading. Content Curation Skills. ITeachU. University of Alaska, 29 Jan. 2014. Web. 01 Feb. 2014. <http://iteachu.uaf.edu/grow-skills/filelink-management/content-curation-tools/>.White, Nancy. Weblog post. - Developing Future Workskills Through Content Curation. N.p., 27 July 2012. Web. 01 Feb.
2014. <http://d20innovation.d20blogs.org/2012/07/27/developing-future-workskills-through-content-curation/>.
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