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Curation tools and web services designed to create learning paths, curriculums, thematic collections and PKM portfolios Via Robin Good 
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Robin Good: Next Tuesday, July 10th I will be running a live online workshop on "content curation for education and learning" as part of the e/merge 2012 web conference.
My session (90 mins.) will focus on defining curation within an educational/learning context and analyzing the factors that will rapidly make curation a major new interest area. I will look at the key benefits that content curation may bring, as well as at the types of content curation that are possible and the key tools available to do it.
I will finally showcase a few interesting examples of curation at work, before diving into a "live" collaborative session in which I will be joined by participants in the creation of a collection of great examples of curated content for education/learning.
A follow-up Q&A session is sheduled for the following week on Tue 17 at 12:15 GMT+2
e/merge 2012 is the fourth virtual conference on educational technology in Africa and builds on the e/merge conferences in 2004, 2006 and 2008.
e/merge 2012 which takes place online from 9 – 20 July 2012, is primarily designed to share good practice and knowledge about educational technology innovation within the further and higher education sectors in the region, as well as to strengthen communities of researchers and practitioners.
The e/merge 2012 conference is organised by Tony Carr and the Centre for Educational Technology at the University of Cape Town.
Live session: 10 July from 12.30 – 2 pm GMT+2
Q&A: 17 July from 12.15 pm – 1.00 pm GMT+2
More info: http://emerge2012.net/workshops/content-curation-robin-good/ ;
Workshops agenda: http://emerge2012.net/workshops/ ;
Programme: http://emerge2012.net/provisional-emerge-2012-schedule/ ;
Registration page: http://emerge2012.net/registration/ ; (The event is free for participants based in Africa.
Event general info: http://emerge2012.net Via Robin Good
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I wanted students to be able to funnel their interests into a more authentic academic experience so that they could learn about what they want to learn about and become empowered as researchers, both casually and formally. Via Robin Good, Guillaume Decugis
Alfredo Corell's curator insight,
October 3, 2013 5:48 PM
An excellent story for lecturers or teachers thinking in content curation as a tool in their aulas. 
Fiona Harvey's curator insight,
October 8, 2013 2:22 AM
Useful for educators - key digital literacy skill 
johanna krijnsen's curator insight,
December 4, 2013 2:00 PM
content curation and critical thinking skills
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Robin Good: To be "in the know" is today often mistaken with being up-to-date. That is, having browsed and read what mainstream and social media have been serving lately.
But what is more important? Knowing the latest gossip and the hot issues on the Silicon Valley tech table or being able to understand in depth a topic and being abe to articulate a personal position relative to it?
It is on these matters that Andrew Battista, Assistant Professor, Information Literacy and Reference Librarian at the University of Montevallo in Alabama has wanted to focus the attention of his curation students, by writing an interesting article.
In it, he provides a short 1':53" short video (not visible to EU-based viewers due to rights-restrictions) extracted from a commercial TV series. In the clip, friends at a bar discuss over who is most in the know by referencing a bunch of articles and stories they have recently read.
Here Prof. Battista insightful comments: "What’s valued today is our ability to recognize surface-level bits of knowledge, and what we’ve lost, perhaps, is the ability to make, deep, meaningful connections between the things we read and the complex problems we face in the world. Of course, it’s simply not realistic to expect that one person could possibly keep pace with all of the content in the publications Fred and Carrie list, which are but a sliver of all of the great journalism, blog writing, podcasts, news, and information that gets churned out every day. Perhaps what is really being parodied here is the mistaken notion that one has to stay current with everything in order to come across as smart to one’s friends. It’s just not possible, and we know that in this age of a swirling vortex of information, we have to find the right balance between knowing what the general buzz is and latching on to some information that we can use deeply. This, in a nutshell, is the central challenge of information literacy, and I believe that curation, or the process of making decisions about what is good and what isn’t, is an integral skill for all citizens of the digital age that can help us become more information literate."
Recommended. 8/10
Full article + video (available only to US viewers): http://www.curationculture.org/archives/251#more-251
(Image credit: Literacy "Curation" Badge from the course taught by Prof. Battista - see CurationCulture.org)
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Martin Couzins and Sam Burrogh introduce in simple words the importance of curation and its relationship with their story and work.
How do we get to the information that is really useful?
How do we get to it quickly?
A good introduction for beginners. 7/10
Original video: http://youtu.be/qxm9ElX4jaM
Check also the related article: http://learnpatch.com/2013/08/how-content-curation-can-help-transform-workplace-learning/
Thank you Robin, excellent