After reading this article, I was confused about what content curation really is and what its benefits are for both teachers and students. So I did some research and found out that content curation is the process of sorting out information and presenting it synthesized around a specific topic. But I was still confused about the article. Is content curation a process that involves teachers, students, or both? And how does the web fit in all this? So I did a little more research and found out that since education has become immersed in technology, content curation pertains mostly to information collected from the web. The sorting of the collected information becomes the task of the the students, and it is later shared in class presentations or through web communities, showcasing students' work and individual interests.
I thought that as an idea content curation is great! If we show our students how to research and sort out internet content, engaging them in finding appropriate materials, reading them in depth and critiquing them in order to contribute to class or web conversations, we engage them in developing a variety of skills, e.g critical thinking. I am still confused, however, as to how content curation works. Is it applicable in a flipped classroom only? How can a teacher incorporate content curation, in language learning for instance, as a learning strategy?
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