JIME: Exploring Curation as a Core Competency in Digital and Media Literacy Education Keywords: Media Literacy, Curation, Civic Engagement, Digital Learning In today's hypermedia landscape, youth and young adults are increasingly using social media platforms, online aggregators and mobile applications for daily information use.
Web-based learning has made learning content much more freely and instantaneously available to students who can download course notes and readings with a single mouse click. Facebook is one of many Web 2.0 tools - wikis, delicious, YouTube, podcasts - that are listed as having potential applications for teaching and learning.