Comments on: New Role for Web 2.0 Teachers: Curator http://www.ovenell-carter.com/2009/02/22/new-role-for-web-20-teachers-curator/ Sat, 14 Aug 2010 20:39:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Mari Roughneen http://www.ovenell-carter.com/2009/02/22/new-role-for-web-20-teachers-curator/comment-page-1/#comment-506 Mari Roughneen Mon, 02 Aug 2010 00:16:39 +0000 http://ovenell-carter.com/blog/?p=312#comment-506 Might we also consider that the partnership between librarians and teachers needs to be strong and deep at the curricular level? Thoughtful selection and organization of resources with a view to good teaching is what librarians are trained to do (in whatever sphere--social media,digital,print)--my concern is that the value of this partnership is being overlooked/underdeveloped in schools. Librarians, as information professionals AND teachers are in a position to train/coach/assist teachers with managing information for their teaching. In addition, librarians have developed curricula and pedagogy around information literacy--it is high time standards were adopted universally by Ministries of Education (as they have been by the Association of College and Research Libraries) so that students learn to think more deeply and meta-cognitively about their engagement with information. Libraries can be hubs for epistemic thought, relationships between ideas, critical thinking, independent learning and exploration, debate... Take a look at http://www.togetherforlearning.ca/ Together for Learning: School Libraries and the Emergence of the Learning Commons. Thoughtful work is being done on the new evolution of information partnerships in schools. Two of the authors of this document, Carol Koechlin and David Loertscher are doing great work on "knowledge building centers" which focuses on the engine (and consequent dynamism) which can be created through collaboration, questioning and purposeful use of technology. Librarians can lead this powerful process in schools in partnership with teachers and also assist individual teachers with sorting and organizing resources in line with curricular interests and demands. Might we also consider that the partnership between librarians and teachers needs to be strong and deep at the curricular level?

Thoughtful selection and organization of resources with a view to good teaching is what librarians are trained to do (in whatever sphere–social media,digital,print)–my concern is that the value of this partnership is being overlooked/underdeveloped in schools. Librarians, as information professionals AND teachers are in a position to train/coach/assist teachers with managing information for their teaching.

In addition, librarians have developed curricula and pedagogy around information literacy–it is high time standards were adopted universally by Ministries of Education (as they have been by the Association of College and Research Libraries) so that students learn to think more deeply and meta-cognitively about their engagement with information. Libraries can be hubs for epistemic thought, relationships between ideas, critical thinking, independent learning and exploration, debate…

Take a look at http://www.togetherforlearning.ca/ Together for Learning: School Libraries and the Emergence of the Learning Commons. Thoughtful work is being done on the new evolution of information partnerships in schools.

Two of the authors of this document, Carol Koechlin and David Loertscher are doing great work on “knowledge building centers” which focuses on the engine (and consequent dynamism) which can be created through collaboration, questioning and purposeful use of technology. Librarians can lead this powerful process in schools in partnership with teachers and also assist individual teachers with sorting and organizing resources in line with curricular interests and demands.

]]> By: Adam Houghton http://www.ovenell-carter.com/2009/02/22/new-role-for-web-20-teachers-curator/comment-page-1/#comment-76 Adam Houghton Wed, 25 Feb 2009 15:35:17 +0000 http://ovenell-carter.com/blog/?p=312#comment-76 A very thought provoking piece. As a person who is just starting to get into the "deeper water" of Web 2.0, I wonder about the term curator. I think that teachers see a curator being equal to a collector, and I think that is incorrect. The curator/collector simply brings students into the mass of information that is available and try and let them differentiate between sources. I think that the real role is to be a curator/critic. Students seem quite content to simply answer a question because Google told them so. The curator/critic needs to be the one instead who gets students to look critically at the problems and data. That is where I think education needs to go in order to fully embrace web 2.0. I think drawing the comparison to a garden is an important one as there are many facets to maintaining one. They can be as sophisticated as we want and can be improved over time. I think the trick is to get students not to see the pretty flowers, but things like the value of perennials vs. annuals or the amount of sun/shade on the garden. A very thought provoking piece. As a person who is just starting to get into the “deeper water” of Web 2.0, I wonder about the term curator. I think that teachers see a curator being equal to a collector, and I think that is incorrect.

The curator/collector simply brings students into the mass of information that is available and try and let them differentiate between sources. I think that the real role is to be a curator/critic. Students seem quite content to simply answer a question because Google told them so. The curator/critic needs to be the one instead who gets students to look critically at the problems and data. That is where I think education needs to go in order to fully embrace web 2.0.

I think drawing the comparison to a garden is an important one as there are many facets to maintaining one. They can be as sophisticated as we want and can be improved over time. I think the trick is to get students not to see the pretty flowers, but things like the value of perennials vs. annuals or the amount of sun/shade on the garden.

]]> By: Peter Rawsthorne http://www.ovenell-carter.com/2009/02/22/new-role-for-web-20-teachers-curator/comment-page-1/#comment-75 Peter Rawsthorne Mon, 23 Feb 2009 00:28:17 +0000 http://ovenell-carter.com/blog/?p=312#comment-75 I found that these two social media works made me ponder and reflect in ways that really went far into the question of what the future will bring and the past innovations that got us to this place; http://twistori.com/ and http://www.wefeelfine.org/. I really see these two pieces getting into the blogospheres collective consciousness for a point in time. Reaaly quite amazing from a global village perspective. Shortly after experiencing these two works, I tweeted; "Things are changing in more ways than we know. It all makes any kind of long term (>3 yrs) planning totally, lets say, irresponsible." I don't know if that was profound, but it was for me at the time. I believe these two works push into what should be considered thought provoking, profound may be pushing it. I think with social media we need to be our own curators. We need to develop the skills to garden our own Networked Environments and those shared with others, we need to be constant gardeners of the virtual environments we visit. Gardening IMHO is best learned within the Wiki environment and then it naturally migrates into other medias. I increasingly believe that the collaborative and personal lessons learned in participating in a full wiki project life-cycle are underestimated. I found that these two social media works made me ponder and reflect in ways that really went far into the question of what the future will bring and the past innovations that got us to this place; http://twistori.com/ and http://www.wefeelfine.org/. I really see these two pieces getting into the blogospheres collective consciousness for a point in time. Reaaly quite amazing from a global village perspective. Shortly after experiencing these two works, I tweeted; “Things are changing in more ways than we know. It all makes any kind of long term (>3 yrs) planning totally, lets say, irresponsible.” I don’t know if that was profound, but it was for me at the time. I believe these two works push into what should be considered thought provoking, profound may be pushing it.
I think with social media we need to be our own curators. We need to develop the skills to garden our own Networked Environments and those shared with others, we need to be constant gardeners of the virtual environments we visit. Gardening IMHO is best learned within the Wiki environment and then it naturally migrates into other medias. I increasingly believe that the collaborative and personal lessons learned in participating in a full wiki project life-cycle are underestimated.

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