Presentation on Educators as Curators for the Designing for Flexibility program Sydney TAFE 2013

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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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Flipboard
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Evernote

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