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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.

play, performance, simulation, appropriation, multitasking, distributed cognition, collective intelligence, judgment, transmedia navigation, networking, and negotiation

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

Build your own (2nd GEN!) MOOC with purpose, solid learning design, and good pedagogical / andragogical models.

Let’s make it about quality and learning

The message is coded in a common ‘language’ where the code is open, not proprietary. So no particular software or device is needed to receive the code

Learning is instead thought of as a part of living,

Learning therefore evolves from being a transfer of content and knowledge to the production of content and knowledge.

This is a very important point, because it shows that traditional research methodology, and for that matter, traditional methods of testing and evaluation, as employed widely in the field of e-learning, will not be successful

Virtually all networks are chaotic systems.

science based on modeling and simulation, pattern recognition and interpretation, projection and uncertainty.

theory of connectivism, which asserts that knowledge - and therefore the learning of knowledge - is distributive, that is, not located in anygiven place (and therefore not 'transferred' or 'transacted' per se) but rather consists of the network of connections formed from experience and interactions with a knowing community.