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CurationA 21 st Century Skill

CurationA 21 st Century Skill

presented by D. Bambic & T. Reddy

the future of learning/l’avenir de l’éducationyourlearningcurve.com & ebeam canada

@dabambic

presented by D. Bambic & T. Reddy

the future of learning/l’avenir de l’éducationyourlearningcurve.com & ebeam canada

@dabambic

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Today’s AgendaToday’s Agenda

Curation as a core skill

3 Tools for curation

Curate the web,curate social media,

curate your classroom

Curation as a core skill

3 Tools for curation

Curate the web,curate social media,

curate your classroom

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While we talk...

While we talk...

#foead for Twitter

See this Google doc for resources (and share

this slide deck)

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#foead for Twitter

See this Google doc for resources (and share

this slide deck)

Find this presentation on

foeade.pbworks.com

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Why care about

curation?Isn’t that

the librarian’s

job?

Why care about

curation?Isn’t that

the librarian’s

job?

We are living in exponential times.

Some 21st century context

In one second on the web...there are

‘Web 2.0’= User-generated content

100 hours of video uploaded to YouTube every minute

130 million people sharing photos & videos on Instagram...montly (Mashable)

31 million bloggers (US only)

+3 million blog posts daily

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/georgecouros

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Information

overload

or

the world at your

fingertips?

Information

overload

or

the world at your

fingertips?

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CurationThe

Human Filter

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to curate is to...

to curate is to...

select

in order to preserve

select

in order to preserve

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COLLECTING IS NOT CURATINGCOLLECTING IS NOT CURATING

http://www.flickr.com/photos/kacey/7894946192

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to curate is to...

to curate is to...

analyze

for relevance, credibility &

authority

analyze

for relevance, credibility &

authority

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Teach students how to look for VALUE & detect CRAP (currency, reliability, authority, purpose/povhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/verbeeldingskr8/3284650304

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Music to ‘detect CRAP by’Dr. Chad Bauman

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to curate is to...

to curate is to...

annotate, question, comment

& reflect

annotate, question, comment

& reflect

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/fishbraintexas/5493450400

Higher OrderCognitive Skills

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Teach students how to make

choices

Teach students how to make

choices

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To curate is to bring value to information

To curate is to bring value to information

to confer meaning

to construct knowledge

to confer meaning

to construct knowledge

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Curation is adding an editorial

voice, comments

& reflections to deepen

thinking

Curation is adding an editorial

voice, comments

& reflections to deepen

thinking

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Curators(filters)bring

value to their

circles

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A curator is an expert learner who creates spaces where knowledge is

CREATED

EXPLORED

CONNECTED

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Learn from the expertsLearn from the experts

@joycevalenza

@RobinGood

@NancyW

@joycevalenza

@RobinGood

@NancyW

Top 10 Reasons to Teach Curation Skills(click for the Google doc)

1.  Curation is the antidote for hoarding data.

2.  To curate means to consider your audience.

3.  To curate is to give a context and meaning to data: to construct knowledge

4. To curate well is the focus on the salient amidst the clatter of ubiquitous data.

5.  To curate means to exercise higher order cognitive skills - analysis, evaluation, reflection.

6.  Curation gives students an editorial voice.

7.  Curators are valuable filters for their circle of learners.

8.  To curate is to bring value to a circle of learners.

9.  To curate is to contribute to the ‘global brain’.  (Robin Good)

10.  If information is the currency of democracy (Thomas Jefferson), then curators are essential agents of that democracy.  Curation makes sense of data and learning to curate is a democratic skill.

Curation Tools

Diigo

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Social BookmarksBeginning the Curation Journey

Where are your favorites?

Save bookmarks,screenshots &

notes

Search with tags

Quality Content from Interest Groups

Beyond Google: Search the Curators

Create groups for your classes

Curate a legacy

Curate for colleagues

Join us!Join us!

Create lists

Play them Play them as a as a

slideshowslideshow

Link to this document

Engage with text using Diigo

Visible on the

web page

Visible from Diigo

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Annotation for Analysis of Ideas

Use colour to teach thinking & writing skills

yellow = thesis blue=supporting facts

Threaded Discussions in Diigo

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Debating Teams: Reveal Sourcesbut Hide Arguments

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Diigo’s Awesome screenshot app

Diigo’s Awesome screenshot app

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Annotate & Archive Screenshots, Share the URLAnnotate & Archive Screenshots, Share the URL

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Curate social media with Storify

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discover the power of narrative

arrange elements to createa story arc

Use social media to

Develop core competencies media & language

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invent a headline

insert an editorial voice

understand perspective taking

Develop core competencies media & language

Use social media to

The Story of a Twitter Thug

An authentic audience for student work

Students learn about perspective

Storify accesses

social media streams: Twitter,

YouTube, Facebook,

Instagram + more

AddAddcommentacommenta

ryry

Students Students develop develop

editorial voiceeditorial voice

•curating the web & its resources

•curating social media

Not ‘either or’ but ‘and more’

Curate the Classroomwith eBeam

What if you could record,

preserve, capture and

curate everything

you wrote on the

whiteboard?

Record your whiteboard notes and students review lessons at home

Recording the Whiteboard BEFORE eBeam

(My iPhone)

Record the whiteboard WITH eBeam

Playback the writing & audio for homeworkArchive the lesson on your wiki, website...

Archive & Curate Student Learning

Compare & Contrast Two EssaysMaking Thinking Visible

What if you could

annotate any web page and record every stroke, colour and word you

wrote?

And then archive it for your students?

Watch the magicLive demo of eBeam

This slide deck was produced by @dabambicyourlearningcurve.com for a workshop given with

T. Reddy from Oralys Canada for the

Future of Education Conference in MontrealAugust 19-21, 2013

See the wiki for more information