Students as Curators
NOW WHAT?

@amyburvall
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Age of Big Data

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KNOWLEDGE

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KNOWLEDGE

WISDOM
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“When information is
CHEAP,
attention becomes
expensive”
- James Gleick
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Henry Jenkins, USC

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Participatory Culture
APPROPRIATION

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Participatory Culture
RE-CIRCULATION

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curare: “ take CARE of”

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is curation...

finding?

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is curation...

selecting?

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is curation...

collecting?

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is curation...

sharing?

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partly, but it’s more
about...

contextualizing

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partly, but it’s more
about...

analyzing

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partly, but it’s more
about...

synthesizing

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partly, but it’s more
about...

transforming

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partly, but it’s more
about...

creating

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partly, but it’s more
about...

engaging

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“Info flâneur”
“curiously and critically moving through
information landscapes and
CREATIVELY
constructing

MEANING”

- Marian Dörk
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student curators...
think critically

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student curators...
think critically

are “Googleable”

reflect thoughtfully
add value
use media effectively + appropriately
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PEERAGOGY

- Howard Rheingold
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1
2
3

shift from conventional lecture-discussion-test
classroom techniques to lessons that incorporated
social media
give students co-teaching power and responsibility
elevate students to the status of co-learner
“It began to dawn on me that the next step was
to explore ways of instigating completely selforganized,
PEER-TO-PEER ONLINE LEARNING”
- Howard Rheingold

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S

EEK

- harold jarche

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S

ENSE

- harold jarche

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S

HARE

- harold jarche
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S

EEK...

human and mechanical aggregation

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S

ENSE...
annotate

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S

apply

ENSE...
annotate

archive

add value
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S
E
A
S
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SELECT: significant and relevant info
EDIT: contextualize with own perspective
ARRANGE: connect, sort, create
SHARE: beyond life of the course
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“cultivate skills that challenge
students to make
unconventional
CONNECTIONS”
www.cluttermuseum.com

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CUR ation

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CUR ious

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1

OVERARCHING
THEME

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1

OVERARCHING
THEME

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?
2

CHERRY-PICKING MULTIMEDIA
“ARTIFACTS”

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3

PROVIDE A
FRAMEWORK
FOR
UNDERSTANDING
(present holistically)

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4

HOST A CONVERSATION

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“The curation of
information
is more of a conversation
than a lecture”
- Adam Kingsmith
5

MAKING MEANING?

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5

MAKING MEANINGFUL?
student-created lessons
“digital farm”
collaborative textbook
quad-blogging
tweets as notes
peer review

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6

WHAT TOOLS?

let’s explore some...
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Monday, November 11, 13

Students as Curators- Now What?