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Educators as Curators
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Teachers can no longer be the font of wisdom in a world where all human
knowledge is distributed into the hands of everyone
with a mobile phone
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Educators need to become curators • Hyper-connected world is awash with content measured in exabytes,
or billions of gigabytes • Learners are placing greater value on knowing where to find information
rather than on knowing the information themselves • Solutions to problems are not from experts but from the wisdom of
networks • Social learning is more important than formal learning in distributed
networked work environments
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Why Curate? • Essential for professional currency in a rapidly
changing world • To establish your self as a thought leader in your
area • Connection is as important as content
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Educators need to be fluent with tools that facilitate communication, collaboration any time any where to create engaging learning spaces to captivate our learners. Curate - Critical literacies Facilitate - Teaching fully online Collaborate - Work is increasingly global and collaborative Stimulate - Engagement Moderate & Manage - Assessment
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We are in a period where the cutting edge of change has moved from the technology to the literacies made possible by the technology - Howard Rheingold, (2011), NetSmart
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Net Smart – Howard Rheingold • Attention • Participation • Collaboration • Critical consumption (crap detection) • Network Smarts
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What does a digital curator do? • Find the best content and share it to their
community • Provide reflective engagement with content • Be a trusted source of content referral • Continually refines, annotates and shares their
daily work
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Source: Harold Jarche (2010), sense-making for the connected workplace, accessed Sept. 2013
aggregating, collaborating within networks, commenting
Scanning, filtering, tagging, following & friending
Reflecting, annotating, presenting, writing, podcasts,
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Network engagement • Find the best stuff and share it • Establish a network reputation, social capital and trust • Send signals that attract like, minded collaborators • Create don’t just consume, it’s not about information it’s about fine
tuning your network • Use self interest to create public good • Don’t flood networks, don’t post rubbish, mindful of context • Find and focus on your topic niche
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Tips for curators • What you leave out as important as what is included • It’s a commitment which requires constant refinement • Remained focused and don’t cross post • Remove noisy contacts • Carefully select your tools, fit for purpose and network
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Diversity of sources • If there is no one in your
network with whom your disagree your in an echo chamber
• Diverse networks are smarter
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It’s not information overload is just filter failure - Clay Shirky
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Tools for curation
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Evernote
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