Curation is an important skill in our information rich society. The skill is useful for organizing and digesting information that ultimately makes your Personal Learning Network or PLN. More on that later. Curation in the digital age is about what tools you use to get information and who you choose to listen to. Just like a museum curator chooses what to exhibit and the best way to display the artifacts of that exhibit. For example, one of the tools I use in my PLN is Twitter. Choosing who to follow is the way to curate the stream of information in Twitter.
Archive of posts tagged Staff Development
Technology Sharing
For our Professional Development Session Tuesday morning we got together to share our ideas. Many of these are good online ativities for elementary students. http://www.dositey.com – Dave Eggelston like this for his kids to work on math skills with his 3rd and 4th graders. Free Typing Game is another great typing resource! And then there’s [...]
Learning Community
I’ve Just read a post called “Trapped Between Stories.” Doesn’t this thinking towards community learning remind anyone else of Vygotsky? I’m a little too far out from my undergrad work on the fundamentals of learning, but I seem to remember something about the social aspects of learning. Now, there is a movement for extended collaboration [...]
