Digital curation in education

Digital Curation in education

What?

• Create boards and content such as e-newspapers

• Follow other people (teachers, artists, scientists, bbc)

• Curate their content on you boards or e-newpapers

Education

• Enlightenment – help people to determine how to learn, teacher as a fountian of knowledge

• Indoctrination – young people conformity and in a framework, follow orders and accept frameworks

Pinterest

Examples

• English literature reading list - http://pinterest.com/steven_bickmore/texts-for-english-7542-fall-2011/

• Literary theory course - http://pinterest.com/steven_bickmore/literary-theory/

• Chemisty course study guide - http://pinterest.com/cnikky/chem-1411/

T

Storify

Is a way to tell stories using social media such as tweets, photos and videos. Users search multiple

social networks from one place, and then drag individual elements into stories. Users can re-

order the elements and also add text to help give context to the readers

Scoop IT

IdeasBoards for:• Places in the world• Colour• Architecture• Computing• Business • Media studies (movies by genre)• English (inspirational pictures)• Organize and disseminate new content as a sort of digital hand-out to students in

online and flipped classrooms. • Collect and share professional reading materials with students• Foster discussion about current events• encourage students to become both content creators and curators• connect to experts outside class and to the world knowledge base• create reading lists

Thank you

@dan_bowen

www.pinterest.com/danbowen