Matt’s Notes
Hello, good evening and/or morning and/or whenever you happen to be reading this! As ever, Doug and I are grateful that you’ve chosen to spend some time here…
So… in terms of the tabs I was referring to during the recording… please find a bit of a sampler herein… trusting that each link is the result of rabbithole upon rabbithole…
Athabasca’s International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning (IRRODL) always has great stuff… this is something where… the title of the piece seemed compelling… Book Review: An Introduction to Open Education… and even as Michael Paskevicius, University of Victoria, writes a really interesting, compelling review of this book… Dr. Paskevicius provides a link to the book… i.e., free to read… through Edtechbooks.org… which I’m encountering just for the first time… it seems, at first glance, like a pretty well-stocked repository… with resources for K-12 and post-secondary educators…
Matt IRL: Great! This means I can close these tabs… and come back to this convenient EDUCATIONAL post if so desiring or requiring in the future…
Also… I was meant to speak to this essay in a Hybrid Pedagogy publication during my final weeks at TRU… it failed to transpire… so… in the interest of “tidying up” at the end of what has truly been a transformative year… for me, anyway… the essay is called “Confessions of a Subversive Student“. And it’s very interesting and well-written. And there is nothing in the essay which remotely qualifies as subversive. Am I missing something? But to ask that question sounds like a grievance, right? I have no grievance against this. It’s worth checking out! As is just about anything else those folks put out…
There’s this great longish read in a recent Saturday edition of the Toronto Star by Andy Lamey…
Tinder fatigue, the endless Netflix scroll, and the real reason online life is exhausting
Andy Lamey on behalf of all of us…
Which led to a new-to-me Canadian poet named Jason Guriel who I feel is probably pretty good…
Is anyone still there? So… ya… still a few tabs open… but that’ll way more than likely do it for now…
Doug’s Notes
Educators as Curators: How did we get to this?
My bias: I am a collector. I have felt the need to collect as long as I can remember.
Matt inadvertently sent me down a rabbit hole of google fonts and it triggered my history of collecting things both as an educator and a person in general.
This study highlighted art educators and the roles they have traditionally been seen to hold. Collector is prominent among these roles.
“In my career in art education, one of my most important roles has been that of…Collector”
Ritenbaugh, T. D. (1989). Artist, teacher, scholar, organizational leader, administrator, collector: Art educators’ beliefs about roles and status. The Pennsylvania State University.
“It’s now ridiculously easy . . . to connect, organize, share, collaborate, and publish with anybody to anybody in the world.”
…“we have to move from knowledgeable – that is just knowing a bunch of stuff—to being actually knowledge-able; that’s being able to find, sort, analyze, criticize, and ultimately create new information and knowledge.”
John Waters, “Higher Education and the New Media Reality,” Campus Technology (July 28, 2011), http://campustechnology .com/articles/2011/07/28/higher-education-and-the-new-media -reality.aspx
The educational role of librarians is more essential today than at any other period in the profession’s long history. The growing torrent of digital information will challenge educators’ ability to teach the appropriate skills and knowledge that will allow students to become and stay “knowledge-able.”
Shank, J. D., Bell, S., & Zabel, D. (2011). Blended librarianship:[Re] envisioning the role of librarian as educator in the digital information age. Reference and User Services Quarterly, 51(2), 105-110.
Curator (lat. Curator – guardian, guardian) – a person who is charged with monitoring, supervising the progress of a particular work or series of works [6-9]. And we can add that the creation of a team. But curatoring is not only a process of education, but also the possibility of live communication between teachers and students, which leads to the self-development of both parties.
Sobirova, D. U., Azimov, A. T., & Alimova, D. K. (2019). The role of the curator in higher Education university. European Journal of Research and Reflection in Educational Sciences Vol, 7(3)
This curated list of resources collates interventions that effectively deploy education technology in settings of fragility, conflict, and violence (FCV). … These resources were selected with the intention to include practical recommendations on technology-enabled interventions.
the need for national education strategies to be underpinned by a focus on enhancing literacy. Regarding EdTech specifically, the overwhelming consensus is that technology is a tool which can be used to support, facilitate and enable good teaching and quality learning (Dahya, 2016). However, technology is only one of many inputs needed to lead to sustained improvements in learning outcomes.
This brief explores how EdTech, and education programmes more widely, can be leveraged to support distance and alternative learning opportunities that are urgently needed.
Koomar, S., Moss Coflan, C., & Kaye, T. (2020). Using EdTech in settings of fragility, conflict and violence: A curated resource list (No. 11). EdTech Hub.
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