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Students Creating Their Own World
Teaching Geography through Socially-Mediated Digital Curation
http://cagle.com/news/FacebookRevolution/main.asp
Technology is changing the world in profound ways…
Globalization of the Classroom?
Open Network vs. LMS
(Learning Management System)
http://geographyeducation.org
www.scoop.it/t/geography-education
Class materials can be constantly updated…
Class materials are student selected…
http://geographyeducation.org/courses/historical-cultural-and-social-geography-geog-350/the-cultural-geography-of-a-viral-sensation/
The Class textbook can adapt to current events…
Quiet students can discuss sensitive materials…
Students can add to the class content…
Students can add to OTHER classes resources…
Students (and the public) can react to each other’s class contributions…
Students can intellectually “own” the course material…
The teacher becomes the learner…
Curation leads to collaboration
Collaboration goes beyond the classroom…
Students don’t have to be just consumers of knowledge. Digital curation empowers them to become producers of knowledge
Students gain confidence in their own voice…
Students continue to collaborate AFTER the semester ends…
http://geographyeducation.org/geospatial/geocoding-in-the-news/
The walls of your classroom come down…
Students Creating Their Own World
Teaching Geography through Socially-Mediated Digital Curation
