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Nancy White's insight:
So, I am realizing today that I have been a bit of an information flaneur regarding the topic of the LMS for K-12 students (Jessica, Chris & Sarah -you know what I mean!) and started thinking about the connection to curating information. I am going to post a series of items that address this as I try to shape my thoughts around where flaneurs fit into the concept of information curation. This first post was written around the same time I wrote my own post on the subject - but from a completely diferent professional perspective. This is what brought me back to the idea of curating - and the power that comes from cross-disciplinary connections -allowing you to really build and see context - an important ingredient of curation. 
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I have been writing my PhD so haven't updated this blog for a while. Thesis writing is taking up a lot of my mental space as I get the ideas, storyline and contentions to 'coalesce' and cohere in a...
Nancy White's insight:
>>Absolutely agree!!>> "Digital curation therefore is not just about finding relevant material, although that is a significant part of it, but is also about creating a specific and unique experience by utilising the resulting materials which then become contextualised within a new space. A curator, therefore, whether she is a journalist-by-proxy such as Popova or a student completing an assignment in a classroom, not only collects and interprets, but also creates a new experience with it. In this respect, curation is a process of problem solving, re-assembling, re-creating, and stewardship of other people’s writing. "
New idea for me - "stewardship of other people's writing." I love the teachable moments this suggest when it comes to student understanding of intellectual property & copyright.
Nancy White's comment,
July 24, 2015 3:46 PM
One more aha after revisiting this piece: This supports my belief that curating is different from simply collecting information--or "doing research." I love the comment about allowing the reader to enter into conversation with writers of the texts. It is the social aspect that is so very important to the curating project - sharing with a broad audience, yes - but more than that--- conversation!
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John Gougoulis's curator insight,
August 19, 2014 6:34 AM
An absolutely significant skill in any research or investigation, for educators and learners in the digital age - the curation of content- with a clear focus or question in mind, the capacity to target a search field, sift through, reflect on and make decisions about the most suitable resource or evidence to use. What a great learning experience. 
Alina Dogaru's curator insight,
December 19, 2014 4:42 AM
Forstå og komme i gang med kurator tjenester. 
Carlos Germán Murillo's curator insight,
December 9, 2018 6:02 PM
La curación de contenidos abre una nueva puerta al aprendizaje y es que nos volvemos partícipes de la cadena, cuando nos detenemos a clasificar, analizar y publicar los contenidos que son más afines y relevantes según nuestras necesidades.
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I want to take a look at curation through the lens of blogging. How can educators and students use their blogs to become their own information curators and content curators for others in their learning community.
Nancy White's insight:
Using blogs for curation is also great for students! Helps them understand the expectation goes beyond just collecting bookmarks about a topic - but they are expected to analyze, synthesize, and make connections the more they dig in to their topic.
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Nancy White's insight:
"...teachers are among the earliest curators of knowledge, taking a content area, deciding what’s worthy of further study, and distributing it for examination. This is not a minor responsibility, being asked to weave a simultaneous affection and lasting intellectual lust for what is by definition academic “stuff”—the Declaration of Independence, the Pythagorean Theorem, Homer’s Odyssey, etc."
-I would argue that teaching has to be so much more than this. Standards should be the floor - not the ceiling. And in today's world, students can do the curating as well, developing essential skills along the way, and taking ownership of their learning.
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Excerpt from article written and curated by Master Curator Robin Good and published on MasterNewMedia:
Via Giuseppe Mauriello, catspyjamasnz, Peter Mellow
Nancy White's insight:
This is a very useful article to help determine the curation tool that is right for you or your students. As the number of curation to grow, deciding on the tool that is right for your curation project (or your students) can be a complex tast. Using the criteria identified here will simplify this task.
Jeff Domansky's curator insight,
February 18, 2014 1:40 PM
Great tips to help you pick the best curation tool.
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Increasingly, the curatorial role is focused on audience engagement and collaboration, rather than specialized knowledge.
Nancy White's insight:
Curating across disciplines, storytelling, and collaboration in the world of art curation hint at the benefits and skill development that can be obtained in content curation in the world of education. Be sure to check out the white paper linked here -a fascinating look at defining a 21st century curator!
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A framework for using Curation in a learning organisation
Nancy White's insight:
I love this simple chart, classifying types of curating as informal and formal - personal or organisational. It mirrors steps in an inquiry process. This seems logical, that at the beginning of the curating process, we are looking for inspiration, and begin aggregating information. Then, as we find more personal connections in the process, we start to see context and can integrate with what we already know and finally apply this new understanding.
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Online instructors face the challenges of keeping a course up to date, engaging students, and maintaining integrity. Having students generate some of the course content can address all three of these challenges.
Nancy White's insight:
Here is another great example of students curating, and the ownership of the learning shifting to the students as a result.
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by Jeff Domansky
"Curation is sometimes confusing. Everyone has a different definition and it’s used in many different ways as part of content and marketing strategies.
"I asked 11 of my favorite curation experts for their best tips, tools, their favorite curator and suggestions on innovative uses of curation. Each is a curator on Scoop.it, my favorite curation tool and channel. New and experienced curators are going to learn from their advice." Via Jim Lerman
Angel Somers's curator insight,
February 2, 2014 1:29 PM
This is a guide pros and cons list for some of the most popular curation tools out there.
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Nancy White's insight:
Excellent post - importance of context & provenance.
Robin Good's curator insight,
August 27, 2013 2:13 PM
Here's an inspiring and insightful article by Sally Whiting on ContentsMagazine analyzing the role of the archivist and the traits and responsibilities that make his work so valuable to content producers. She writes: "Applying archival principles to content strategy makes for solid content—I can demonstrate this, and I exercise it in my work." As content curators will increasingly need to learn more about archiving, organizing and preserving what they curate, this article provides an inspiring set of considerations about the key value of context and provenance. In addition she poses some important questions about what could actually be done by better curating our own content archives: "Archives are accustomed to a passive role, asking reflectively what their patrons want to find. As they work to help researchers tell their stories, it’s easy for archives to forget to keep shaping their own." Inspiring. Rightful. 8/10 Full article: http://contentsmagazine.com/articles/digital-archives-the-content-strategist/ (Image credit: girl picking from the books - Shutterstock) 
digitalassetman's curator insight,
August 30, 2013 8:15 AM
Since graduating from library school, I’ve fielded occasional questions about archiving “as a professional in the field.” Then comes the second question, “So, what kind of archive do you work in?” But I don’t. Although I was trained as an archivist and care deeply about archives, I’ve been an editor or a content strategist on most of my recent projects. And though I sympathize with archivists’ anxiety about their continuing relevance, I’m also excited for them, as I am for anyone who has content worth sharing
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Exploring Curation as a core competency in digital and media literacy education Via Robin Good, Paula Silva, catspyjamasnz, Fabrizio Bartoli
Nancy White's insight:
More thinking on the connection of storytelling and curating:
"Curation is an act of problem solving. Curating information to tell a story creates a sense of responsibility for the curator. Storytelling advances the core media literacy principles of analysis, evaluation and creation. By curating, students can compose a story using content acquired on their search with heightened awareness of purpose and audience (Hobbs 2010). All media online is searchable by any user of the web, but the task of the curator is to organize the information into a story in order to share with others in a coherent, nuanced and clear manner. Guided by the teacher, students can access content, analyze and evaluate the messages, create presentations, reflect on findings, and work together in collaborative environments "
Diana Juárez's curator insight,
April 26, 2015 1:27 PM
La curación como herramienta pedagógica para propiciar el pensamiento crítico en la educación. 
Bárbara Mónica Pérez Moo's curator insight,
August 12, 2015 9:16 AM
Habilidades digitales y pensamiento crítico. |
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Nancy White's insight:
I am not sure how I missed this several years ago when I bumped into the term information flaneur - this is a very clear explanation in just a few slides. My sense is there is an important connection to curating information.
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But there are times when aggregation is nothing more than noise. This is why we need to understand curation. Otherwise, we won’t be able to realize the benefit.
Nancy White's insight:
A simple 3 step approach to curating: Search - Synthesize - Share. I like the reference to storytelling as well. No matter what the need or profession, curating (rather than aggregation) will help grow your knowledge and understanding.
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A digital essay completed by Heather Bailie as part of the assessment requirements of #INF530 Concepts & Practices for a Digital Age. Via Robin Good
Nancy White's insight:
A good review of curation in education.
Christoph Meier's curator insight,
August 11, 2014 4:20 AM
Hilfreicher Übersichtsartikel mit Links zu verschiedenen Beiträgen in peer reviewed journals. 
Mark Monsen's curator insight,
May 6, 2015 11:21 PM
All about curation, some great educational models
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Nancy White's insight:
So...if this is true for universities, I wonder what follows for K-12?
Robin Good's comment,
July 8, 2014 1:31 PM
@Gilbert C FAURE: a few are, many not yet. But don't worry, if they are investing in planning for a sustainable future, not created only at the expense of paying students, they'll figure it out by themselves pretty soon.
Jeroen Boon's curator insight,
July 12, 2014 10:39 AM
Exciting article about the future of our universities! 
Olga Senognoeva's curator insight,
August 12, 2014 4:39 AM
"... Как будет выглядеть будущее образования?
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ExcA digital essay completed by Heather Bailie as part of the assessment requirements of #INF530 Concepts & Practices for a Digital Age.
Nancy White's insight:
Excellent review of the best thinking on the topic of curating in education.
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Nancy White's insight:
When students curate, they own the learning. This is my latest blog post with some of the highlights from a recent collaborative student curation project I supported in my district.
Nancy White's curator insight,
March 6, 2014 3:33 PM
My latest blog post offers the highlights from a student curation I collaborated on here in my district. 
Mika Auramo's curator insight,
March 7, 2014 12:07 AM
Kuratointi liitettynä esim. blogiin syventää opiskelua ja kehittää tiedonhallintaa ja sisältöjen suodattamista.
Nancy White's curator insight,
March 7, 2014 12:10 PM
My latest blog post describes an 8th grade student curation project. Through curating, students experienced the freedom to learn about what most interested them, and to follow their questions in the direction that they needed to go, as they explored topics of the 19th century social reform movements in their social studies class.
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How might efforts to curate benefit from the portability and ubiquity of mobile devices? Tools like Evernote and GoodReads allow for easy and valuable curation. But the harder questions are pedagogical and curricular.
Nancy White's insight:
What a wonderful concept - curating things we percieve to be beautiful. Howard Gardner is such an amazing thinker!
I also love the term "relevance portfolio" –this is exactly what I think will be a stepping stone towards personalized learning through content curation.
ghbrett's curator insight,
January 24, 2014 8:30 AM
There are a numbers of tablet apps for iOS and other operating systems that can enable sharing, creating, and implementing projects in a mobile learning environment. 
Connie Davis's curator insight,
July 1, 2014 1:28 AM
Curation is an interesting topic that I had never considered previously. I need to look into this further. Any suggestions would certainly be welcome.
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MindShift (blog)
Nancy White's insight:
This quotation says it all: "Addressing teachers in 2012, Heng Swee Keat, Singapore’s Minister for Education, argued for a radical shift in policy: “The educational paradigm of our parents’ generation, which emphasized the transmission of knowledge, is quickly being overtaken by a very different paradigm. This new concept of educational success focuses on the nurturing of key skills and competencies such as the ability to seek, to curate and to synthesize information; to create and innovate; to work in diverse cross-cultural teams; as well as to appreciate global issues within the local context.”
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"School librarians can use curation as a tool to position themselves as information and communication authorities and information professionals." Via Robin Good, Vladimir Kukharenko
Kathy Schrock's curator insight,
January 23, 2014 7:00 PM
Librarians have been doing this for years, but now have many tools to pick from!
Angel Somers's curator insight,
February 2, 2014 1:31 PM
LIbrarians are natural curators! It's what we do, so it makes sense that we should take the initiative to promot curation as a valuable skill for both our colleagues and our students.
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Students in Matamoros, Mexico weren't getting much out of school -- until a radical new teaching method unlocked their potential.
Nancy White's insight:
Curating is where this begins, informal, unstructured, yet purposeful.
Nancy White's curator insight,
October 17, 2013 1:27 PM
The more I read about this kind of learning, the more I see blended learning as just a stepping stone.
Nancy White's curator insight,
October 17, 2013 1:28 PM
From blended-learning, to personalized learing, to curiosity-fueled learning? 
Gail M. Roper's curator insight,
October 20, 2013 12:51 PM
“THE BOTTOM LINE IS, IF YOU’RE NOT THE ONE CONTROLLING YOUR LEARNING, YOU’RE NOT GOING TO LEARN AS WELL.” My mom used to say this, she told me that the main thing that kids needed to learn to do was to teach themselves. She believed that it was a skill that would last them a lifetime. This article is compelling. It even elaborates on removing adult barriers.
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The Latin root of the noun curator means "to care." We know the word primarily in connection with museum collections, which may make some folks think of dusty old boring things, or preserving histo... Via Robin Good, Lynnette Van Dyke
Nancy White's insight:
I love the way examining curating from the perspective of other disciplines adds such richness to our definition and understanding of what it is, and what we are trying to accomplish with the act of curating.
Robin Good's curator insight,
October 2, 2013 8:13 AM
If you are into understanding the real value of content curation and what are the characterizing traist that make it so valuable and unique for the future of journalism and of our collective ability to stay informed, here is an evergreen "classic" on what curation specifically entails, synthesized and outlined by the Mindy McAdams. When it comes to content curation, her list includes seven specific characterizing traits:
Her content curation identikit is as useful, truthful and relevant today as it was was 5 years ago when it was first published. Content curation reference. Must-read. 9/10 Full post: http://mindymcadams.com/tojou/2008/curation-and-journalists-as-curators/ Question to you: Five years on, today, what would you add to these traits, that in your view, fully characterizes content curation? (Image credit: Fingerprint by Shutterstock)
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If kids can access information from sources other than school, and if school is no longer the only place where information lives, what, then happens to the ro Via Allison Zmuda
Nancy White's insight:
I love the fact that Diana responds to teachers who ask her when she just "tells students stuff" -she suggests that if you spark the interest, they can do the research. And...this leads to more ownership and engagement. This is where student curation begins! Great tips for creating a culture of inquiry.
Allison Zmuda's curator insight,
August 19, 2013 11:40 AM
How can we start structuring how to let go of control? "The less educators try to control what kids learn, the more students’ voices will be heard and, eventually, their ability to drive their own learning." |
I am seeing similar characteristics between content curators and information flaneurs described in this paper.