Teaching and Learning in the Digital Terrain

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This is a ThingLink image from work done for Media Smarts in Canada. This outlines the teaching and learning landscape for digital technologies. Some links are relevant to Canadian contexts, but are of general interest to teachers in global spaces. The full report is posted on the MediaSmarts site at http://mediasmarts.ca/sites/mediasmarts/files/publication-report/full/mapping-digital-literacy.pdf

What is curation?

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This is the first in a series of videos from Percolate explaining the shifts they're seeing in the world of content creation. Curation has exploded with the growth of Twitter, Tumblr and now Pinterest. In this video, they wanted to try to get into the heads of some of our favorite curators to understand what makes them tick.

Featured curators include:
Maria Popova (twitter.com/brainpicker)
Joanne McNeil (twitter.com/rhizomedotorg)
Peter Hopkins (twitter.com/bigthink)
Edith Zimmerman (thehairpin.com/)
Anthony De Rosa (soupsoup.tumblr.com)
Rex Sorgatz (twitter.com/fimoculous)
Piers Fawkes (psfk.com)
Tina Roth Eisenberg (swiss-miss.com)
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Curing our digital lives

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How do you curate the huge volume of information that comprises our daily lives, particularly as it relates to professional knowledge? And how do we help youth do the same for the purpose of personal and academic growth?

This was a three-week conversation/course to share experiences as we considered curation as an opportunity to gather and annotate as well as publish and share as part of a knowledge-building network.