Curation is an essential skills in an age where access to data is ubiquitous. This is a presentation prepared for the Future of Education conference in Montreal, August 19-21, 2013 by @dabambic on yourlearningcurve.com.

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Curation
A 21 st Century Skill
presented by D. Bambic & T. Reddy
the future of learning/l’avenir de l’éducation
yourlearningcurve.com & ebeam canada
@dabambic

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Today’s
Agenda
Curation as a core skill
3 Tools for curation
Curate the web,
curate social media,
curate your classroom

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While we
talk...
#foead for Twitter
See this Google doc for
resources (and share this
slide deck)
Find this presentation on
foeade.pbworks.com

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Why care
about
curation?
Isn’t that the
librarian’s
job?

5. We are living in exponential times.
Some 21st century context

6. In one second on the web...
there are

7. ‘Web 2.0’= User-generated content
100 hours of video
uploaded to YouTube
every minute
130 million people sharing
photos & videos on
Instagram...montly (
Mashable)
31 million bloggers (US
only)
+3 million blog posts daily

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/georgecouros

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Information
overload
or
the world at
your
fingertips?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/intersectionconsulting

10. 10http://www.flickr.com/photos/catspyjamasnz/4007683970

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Curation
The Human
Filter
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to curate is to...
select
in order to
preserve

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COLLECTING IS NOT CURATINGCOLLECTING IS NOT CURATING
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kacey/7894946192

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to curate is to...
analyze
for relevance,
credibility &
authority

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Teach students how to look for VALUE &
detect CRAP (currency, reliability, authority,
purpose/povhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/verbeeldingskr8/3284650304

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Music to ‘detect CRAP by’
Dr. Chad Bauman

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to curate is to...
annotate,
question,
comment
&
reflect

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/fishbraintexas/5493450400
Higher Order
Cognitive Skills

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Teach
students how
to make
choices
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ervega/3662623495

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To curate is to
bring value to
information
to confer meaning
to construct
knowledge

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Curation is
adding an
editorial voice,
comments
& reflections to
deepen
thinking
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ervega/3662623495

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Curators
(filters)
bring
value to their
circles
http://www.flickr.com/photos/verbeelding
skr8
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/verbeeldingskr8
A curator is an expert learner who
creates spaces where knowledge is
CREATED
EXPLORED
CONNECTED

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Learn from the experts
@joycevalenza
@RobinGood
@NancyW

25. Top 10 Reasons to Teach Curation Skills
(click for the Google doc)
1. Curation is the antidote for hoarding data.
2. To curate means to consider your audience.
3. To curate is to give a context and meaning to data: to construct knowledge
4. To curate well is the focus on the salient amidst the clatter of ubiquitous data.
5. To curate means to exercise higher order cognitive skills - analysis, evaluation, reflection.
6. Curation gives students an editorial voice.
7. Curators are valuable filters for their circle of learners.
8. To curate is to bring value to a circle of learners.
9. To curate is to contribute to the ‘global brain’. (Robin Good)
10. If information is the currency of democracy (Thomas Jefferson), then curators are essential agents of that
democracy. Curation makes sense of data and learning to curate is a democratic skill.

26. CurationTools
Diigo

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Social Bookmarks
Beginning the Curation Journey

28. Where are your favorites?

29. Save bookmarks,
screenshots &
notes
Search with tags

30. Quality Content from Interest Groups

31. Beyond Google: Search the Curators

32. Create groups for your classes

33. Curate a legacy

34. Curate for colleagues
Join us!Join us!

35. Create lists
Play them asPlay them as
a slideshowa slideshow

36. Link to this document

37. Engage with text using Diigo
Visible on
the
web page
Visible from Diigo

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Annotation for Analysis of Ideas
Use colour to teach thinking & writing skills
yellow = thesis blue=supporting facts

39. Threaded Discussions in Diigo
14141414

40. Debating Teams: Reveal Sources
but Hide Arguments

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Diigo’s Awesome screenshot
app

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Annotate & Archive Screenshots, Share the URLAnnotate & Archive Screenshots, Share the URL

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Curate social media with Storify

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discover the power of narrative
arrange elements to create
a story arc
Use social media to
Develop core competencies
media & language

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invent a headline
insert an editorial voice
understand perspective taking
Develop core competencies
media & language
Use social media to

46. The Story of aTwitterThug
An authentic
audience for
student work

47. Students learn about
perspective

48. Storify
accesses
social media
streams:
Twitter,
YouTube,
Facebook,
Instagram +
more

49. AddAdd
commentarycommentary
Students developStudents develop
editorial voiceeditorial voice

50. • curating the web & its resources
• curating social media
Not ‘either or’ but ‘and more’

51. Curate the Classroom
with eBeam

52. What if you
could record,
preserve, capture
and curate
everything you
wrote on the
whiteboard?

53. Record your whiteboard notes
and students review lessons at home

54. Recording the Whiteboard BEFORE eBeam
(My iPhone)

55. Record the whiteboard WITH eBeam
Playback the writing & audio for homework
Archive the lesson on your wiki, website...

56. Archive & Curate Student Learning
Compare & Contrast Two Essays
Making Thinking Visible

57. What if you
could annotate
any web page
and record every
stroke, colour
and word you
wrote?

58. And then archive it for your students?

59. Watch the magic
Live demo of eBeam

60. This slide deck was produced by @dabambic
yourlearningcurve.com for a workshop given with
T. Reddy from Oralys Canada for the
Future of Education Conference in Montreal
August 19-21, 2013
See the wiki for more information