Critical media literacy, in this
context is utilized to combat the hegemonic power structures in society by training students to become critical thinkers, thereby transferring power from
the hands of the distributers to the hands of the receivers.
Curating content shifts the learning from passive to active
participatory spaces enable-archive, annotate, appropriate and recirculate
Jenkins
core set of key skills
While traditional techniques remain relevant for
students today, there is a need to explore pedagogical models that aim to empower critical thinking within the context of digital realities for youth today.
Organization is no longer simply for daily routines, pastimes or hobbies, but also for news and
current affairs.
curation as value-added.
When the lists are public, the user becomes a de facto expert in showing the value placed on certain sources,
organizations, and individuals over others. This type of curation "allows the people formerly known as the audience to create value for one another every
day" (Shirky 2010, 17).
Curation is an act of problem solving.
task of the curator is to
organize the information into a story
Learning theories are concerned with the actual process of learning,
not with the value of what is being learned. In a networked world,
the likelihood that a concept of learning will be
linked depends on how well it is currently linked.
“the simple notion that some domains of knowledge contain
vast numbers of weak interrelations that, if properly exploited, can greatly
amplify learning by a process of inference
It's about actually empowering people to develop and create their own learning, their own education. So not only do they not depend on us for learning, but also, their learning is not subject to our value-judgements and prejudices.
reducing and eventually eliminating the learned dependence on the expert and the elite