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Knowledge Sommelier 101 - The Art of Curation in Education
A curator is a knowledge manager who filters, organizes, and presents information relevant to institutions, particularly in the context of education. The document discusses the importance of curating quality digital content due to the overwhelming amount of online information available, highlighting various methods such as algorithmic, social, and personal filters. It emphasizes the need for educators to become effective curators, utilizing tools and resources to enhance learning experiences.
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- 2. Curator • A curator (La+n: curare meaning ‘take care’) is a manager or overseer • A content specialist responsible for an ins+tu+on's collec+ons • Involved with the interpreta+on of heritage material
- 3. An Aggregator • Simply bundles content without adding any personal point-‐of-‐view, or context
- 4. Why the Needto Curate?
- 5. Deluge of OnlineInformation • Varying quality -‐ accuracy, trustworthiness, bias or outright wrong • Constantly changing informa+on
- 6. Changing Complexion ofKnowledge • Knowledge takes the property of the medium it is presented in o Knowledge presented in the medium of paper was bounded, scarce, seKled, orderly, step-‐by-‐step and driven by reason o In the internet age networked knowledge is unbounded, overwhelming, unseKled, messy and linked • Filter Out vs Filter Forward (long-‐tail of educa+on)
- 7. Flipped Classroom Source: hKp://www.knewton.com/flipped-‐classroom/
- 8. Teachers need to become CURATORS of reliable, up-‐to-‐date and good quality informa+on… to augment learning
- 9. The Art ofCuration in Higher Education Context 1. Filtering Relevant Informa+on Algorithmic/Social/Personal Filters, Open Educa+on Resources 2. Organising Informa+on Create Personal Learning Repository using Diigo 3. Adding Context & Presen+ng Informa+on Facebook, TwiKer, Storify, ScoopIT, Paper.li
- 10. The Art ofCuration in Higher Education Context 1. Filtering Relevant Informa+on Algorithmic/Social/Personal Filters, Open Educa+on Resources 2. Organising Informa+on Create Personal Learning Repository using Diigo 3. Adding Context & Presen+ng Informa+on Facebook, TwiKer, Storify, ScoopIT, Paper.li
- 11. Three ways of finding online informa+on: • Algorithmic Filters: Google or Bing • Social Filters: Recommenda+on Systems, Reputa+on systems, Social Tagging, TwiKer • Personal Filters: Quora, Facebook
- 12. Algorithmic filters like Google • Text, Video, Images, Scholar, Books, News • Video Filter > Dura+on, Date • Books Filter > Magazine/books, Time
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- 16. Go online and find 3 good books on Financial Literacy, for beginners
- 17. -‐ Go to a site like Amazon, where there are lots of users -‐ Select the category ‘books’ -‐ Search for ‘Financial Literacy’
- 18. -‐ You can further SORT these results to refine your search -‐ In our case we will choose the sort filter, ‘Avg. Customer Review’
- 19. One of the books in the results has been given average 5 Stars ra+ng by 39 readers -‐ this is a ‘Wisdom of the Crowd’ social filter. Click on this book...
- 20. On Scrolling down on this page we can see another Wisdom of the Crowd filter -‐ “Customers who bought this item also bought” Here we find another book that has been rated highly by 305 readers - certainly worth checking out
- 21. For these books, search the respec+ve authors on sites like YouTube and Vimeo -‐ lots of +me the authors have done a short book review, which is very useful to find out relevance
- 22. You can also look for free informa+on on the book – by searching for: ‘Google Talk <name of author>’
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- 25. You can search Social Bookmarking sites for curated content 25
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- 28. There are new services like Quora or Curated.by -‐ where you post your ques+ons and community members provide answers www.Quora.com
- 29. Filters – inSummary You can find informa+on online in the following ways: • Algorithmic Filters (Google or Bing) • Social Filters (Facebook and TwiKer) • Wisdom of the Crowd Filters (ra+ngs, reviews, social bookmarking sites like Digg, Reddit,Delicious) • Personal Filters (Quora, Curated.by)
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- 31. "Open Educa+onal Resources are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use or re-‐purposing by others." Source: Report on OER by Hewle4 Founda8on
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- 35. Academic Earth: has video lectures and complete courses from Professors of Harvard, MIT, Yale, Stanford www.AcademicEarth.org
- 36. MIT World – over 11,000 Videos
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- 38. YouTube -‐ Educa+on
- 39. Vimeo e.g. – Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies
- 40. Lecture Fox – Free University Lectures
- 42. TED: has brilliant lectures and presenta+on that are not longer than 18 minutes -‐ www.TED.com
- 43. Digital / FlexBooks
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- 47. Chegg, CourseSmart – Rent Books
- 48. SlideShare Scribd
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- 52. From iTunes Store (Mac or PC) you can go to Podcasts for more good quality, free content Search content
- 53. If you have an Android Smart Phone you can search for educa+onal apps on Android Market
- 54. If you have an iPhone you can search App Store for educa+onal games and apps
- 55. Game-based Learning –Serious Games
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- 57. Online Learning Resources- In Summary • Tons of Open Educa+on Resources • Learning content in mul+ple formats like text, podcasts, videos and games -‐ choose the one that suits your learners’ learning style most -‐ Pres+gious Universi+es – free online learning resources ü iTunes University, Academic Earth, Coursera, Udacity -‐ TED, YouTube Educa+on, MIT World -‐ Apps -‐ Podcasts -‐ Serious Games
- 58. The Art ofCuration in Higher Education Context 1. Filtering Relevant Informa+on Algorithmic/Social/Personal Filters, Open Educa+on Resources 2. Organising Informa+on Create Personal Learning Repository using Diigo 3. Adding Context & Presen+ng Informa+on Facebook, TwiKer, Storify, ScoopIT, Paper.li
- 59. You can use Diigo to collate and organise online content -‐ www.diigo.com This Diigo bar gets added to your browser and while browsing you can... Bookmark a Add a note Capture and Share the page and add it to the web Save a screen- page to a list on Diigo page shot
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- 64. You can use Google Reader to have select content pushed to you like an email-‐ www.google.com/reader
- 65. The Art ofCuration in Higher Education Context 1. Filtering Relevant Informa+on Algorithmic/Social/Personal Filters, Open Educa+on Resources, Create Personal Learning Network 2. Organising Informa+on Tools like Diigo, CiteLighter 3. Adding Context & Presen+ng Informa+on Facebook, TwiKer, Storify, ScoopIT, Paper.li
- 66. Cura+on is adding the META-‐DATA – context or meaning – to the Content
- 67. Use Facebook to add your perspec+ve and present content you have curated
- 68. Storify -‐ the story layer above social networks
- 69. Step-‐1 Step-‐2 Step-‐3 Storify
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- 75. become a Knowledge Sommelier for your students
- 76. For learning modules on skills relevant for flourishing in the 21st century visit -‐ www.TimelessLifeskills.co.uk
- 77. Or join the Learning Conversa+ons on Facebook -‐ www.facebook.com/ lifeskills
- 78. Thank you Atul.Pant@TimelessLifeskills.co.uk Atul.Pant@gmail.com