October 29, 2013. I'm in beautiful Monterey, CA for right now because I'm speaking at a conference here: Internet Librarian. Since all my work is online, instead of paying for three nights in an expensive hotel, I decided to find a place for a whole month and just live here for a while. I'm staying…
Es ist kühl geworden, und der Herbst setzt gelbe, braune und rote Tupfen in die Bäume. Wenige Spinnennetze. Und überall liegen Eicheln umher. Ab und an ein Pilz im Gras, und das erste welke Laub ist zu Boden gefallen. Der kleine Elfmeterschütze läuft an, schießt und trifft ins Tor. Er hebt die Arme in die…
In today's hypermedia landscape, youth and young adults are increasingly using social media platforms, online aggregators and mobile applications for daily information use....In this paper we explore the concept of curation as a student- and creation-driven pedagogical tool to enhance digital and media literacy education. We present a theoretical justification for curation and present six key ways that curation can be used to teach about critical thinking, analysis and expression online. We utilize a case study of the digital curation platform Storify to explore how curation works in the classroom, and present a framework that integrates curation pedagogy into core media literacy education learning outcomes.
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