Curating content in education links to scoopit pinterest and storify

1. Digital Curation in education

2. What?
• Create boards and content such as enewspapers
• Follow other people (teachers, artists,
scientists, bbc)
• Curate their content on you boards or enewpapers

3. Education
• Enlightenment – help people to determine
how to learn, teacher as a fountian of
knowledge
• Indoctrination – young people conformity and
in a framework, follow orders and accept
frameworks

4. Pinterest

7. Examples
• English literature reading list http://pinterest.com/steven_bickmore/textsfor-english-7542-fall-2011/
• Literary theory course http://pinterest.com/steven_bickmore/literar
y-theory/
• Chemisty course study guide http://pinterest.com/cnikky/chem-1411/

8. T

9. Storify
Is a way to tell stories using social media such as
tweets, photos and videos. Users search multiple
social networks from one place, and then drag
individual elements into stories. Users can reorder the elements and also add text to help give
context to the readers

10. Scoop IT

11. Ideas
Boards for:
• Places in the world
• Colour
• Architecture
• Computing
• Business
• Media studies (movies by genre)
• English (inspirational pictures)
• Organize and disseminate new content as a sort of digital hand-out to students in
online and flipped classrooms.
• Collect and share professional reading materials with students
• Foster discussion about current events
• encourage students to become both content creators and curators
• connect to experts outside class and to the world knowledge base
• create reading lists

12. Thank you
@dan_bowen
www.pinterest.com/danbowen