Curation

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Teaching Curation

– to collect, sort and organise digital information

The amount of information available to students is often overwhelming these days. How do they cope with the myriad of hyperlinks? How do they make sense of and categorise information into relevant themes for their usage?

To collation and categorise some of the material and data on the Web, we have been using ‘curation’ tools. Sites such as Pinterest, Bundlr and Learnist are just some of the social media platforms that offer the contribute to educators and students organisational needs. They offer ways to synthesise key concepts from seemingly random sites and to weave these chunks of data to build a cohesive type of narrative.

What have we used in our classroom?

There are many tools to help students collate information on the Web. Recently in our classroom, we have been using www.pinterest.com

 

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Example of a Pinterest Board

Pinterest scrapbook sites have been great for creating a visual brainstorm of similar data strands. In English, we collated pictures from World War I that related to an assessment item. It was a great way of letting students curate and collect their own information rather than print out the stimulus material for them.

Other tools that have proved useful in the collation/curation process include

learnist 

This site was previously associated with the name Grockit.

Learnist emerged as a rival to Pinterest boards. (A new collation tool to be in beta phase currently is Noodle – we have not signed up for this as yet …. perhaps this is something to look at in the future?)

 

 

 

 

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