Students as Curators Nancy White 21 st Century Learning & Innovation Specialist @NancyW.

Students as Curators

Nancy White21st Century Learning & Innovation Specialist

@NancyW

Collecting vs. CuratingThinking Level

Collecting CuratingClassifying: Lower Level of Blooms

Synthesis – Evaluation: Higher Order of Blooms

ProcessCollecting Curating

Not a lot of depth in the selection process: somewhat random

• Synthesizing, Interpreting, Evaluating

• Theme & Context

• Disciplined, purposeful, continuous process of inquiry

Collecting vs. CuratingOrganization

Collecting CuratingThematic Thematic

AND Contextual

ValueCollecting Curating

•Meets a personal interest•Value to collector•Quantity matters

•Meets a learning goal•Value to collector and other learners•QUALITY matters

Collecting vs. Curating: AudienceCollecting

Not necessarily shared

CuratingArranged, annotated

and published somewhere

Available to the general public –beyond the life of a particular “course”

Shared

Transdisciplinarity

Media Literac

y

Curiosity

Learners

What if students do the curating?

http://tps.govst.edu/pdfs/StriplingModelInquiry.pdf

http://tps.govst.edu/pdfs/StriplingModelInquiry.pdf

Inquiry Based Learning

 Traditional Hands-on

Structured Guided Student Directed

Topic Teacher Teacher Teacher Teacher Teacher/Student

Question Teacher Teacher Teacher Teacher/Student

Student

Materials Teacher Teacher Teacher Student Student

Procedures/ Design

Teacher Teacher Teacher/Student

Student Student

Results/ Analysis

Teacher Teacher/Student

Student Student Student

Conclusions Teacher Student Student Student Student

Bonnsetter, Robert J. (2001). Inquiry: Learning from the past with an eye on the future.

Retrieved 15 May, 2005 from the World Wide Web: http://unr.edu/homepage/jcannon/ejse/bonnstetter.html

Focus on Teaching Focus on Learning

Curating!

Sense-makingPassion Based

Learning

Ownership