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Nancy Prentice

Exploring Curation as a core competency in digital and media literacy education | Mihai... - 0 views

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curation InformationLiteracy

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  • A 2010 Kaiser Family Foundation study found that 'Eight- to eighteen-year-olds spend more time with media than in any other activity besides (maybe) sleeping-an average of more than 7½ hours a day, 7 days a week.'
  • the concept of curation as a pedagogical tool to embolden critical inquiry and engagement
  • Jenkins highlights the type of online activities that participatory spaces enable-archive, annotate, appropriate and recirculate-which occur in real time and in the context of abundant information flow
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  • To curate, historically, has meant to take charge of or organize, to pull together, sift through, select for presentation, to heal and to preserve
  • The preservation and organization of content online is now largely the responsibility of the individual in highly personalized information spaces
  • Across all levels of education today, students enter the classroom with a certain level of familiarity with digital tools and platforms (Prensky, 2001; Ofcom, 2010; Rosen, 2010). The notion that this familiarity translates to a heightened level of technological competence has been contested at all levels of education
Nancy Prentice

The Harsh Reality of the Classroom of the Future - Edudemic - 0 views

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Classroom digital

shared by Nancy Prentice on 04 Mar 13 - No Cached
  • the classroom of the future: picture huge, multipurpose spaces that allow for seminar areas, group work using a projector for feeding back to others, private work areas and an area for IT use. How many schools do you know that have classrooms with this amount of space?
  • by utilizing technology in the right way, the dynamics of the classroom could be radically changed for the better
  • I see what they see – I see if what I’m showing them looks worthwhile, if it’s presented in an engaging way, if it’s even legible. All of these things matter, but when we’re at the front, we don’t remember that they matter.
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  • simply try sitting amongst your students; it changes everything
  • Anytime, anywhere learning isn’t just about students going off and learning in their own time, it’s about finding ways of making the classroom a more dynamic space
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