SHARING IS CARING
Hello teachers, teaching has become so interesting, more especially if a teacher enjoys researching and reading about what he or she intends to teach about before going to class or before unleashing it to the students or his/her audience. This is exactly what curation is all about. (collect, sieve out and share it with others).
On the other hand bookmarking is opposed to curation. With bookmarking, an individual only gathers tools or search engines like Diigo, Scour, ffwd, Ecomii, ShareThis,Delicious , Google etc and gives them out to his audience. It is then the audience’s task to look for what topic they want from those search engines for example Geography or math and get out the URL resources of a given topic or subject under study.
- Content curation is better than social bookmarking because, with bookmarking, some sites do not allow annotating(i.e adding explanatory statements) by a non-author to the page.
- Secondly, Bookmarking throws the burden to the reader who has to explore the stated sites/tools and he/she fishes out what is in line with the subject under study. in this respect, the teacher who bookmarks for the students remains irrelevant because the student explores and gets it all alone.
- In case a student is lazy or fails to explore and fish out the most relevant resource form the bookmarks given by the teacher, then the learning processes goes limping.
- Curation consumes relatively little time for a student who was given resource site for a given assignment whereas if bookmarks were given to the same student, he/she is likely to spend more time and even fail to get the required information.
- The Internet has got a lot of impediments(obstructers) to a reader but curation solves that problem. Unless when someone knows what he wants and goes straight to it i.e going to the shared resources, (under curation); but with bookmarking, such obstructor come up and the reader navigate from within the given bookmark and losses truck of a given task or assignment.
- I am in total support of curation because of the many advantages it possesses. Below are the examples of resources that a High School Geography teacher-trainer can share with Geography Teachers.
In this blog I have focused on Geography teaching and how a geography teacher-trainer in a high school(curator) can get more information to give his/her fellow Teachers . Please check it out below:
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