Exploring Curation as a core competency in digital and media literacy education

Authors

James N. Cohen MA, Molloy CollegeFollow
Paul Mihailidis, Emerson CollegeFollow

Document Type

Peer-Reviewed Article

Publication Date

2013

Journal Title or Book Title

The Journal of Interactive Media in Education (JIME)

Volume

1

Version

Publisher's PDF

DOI

10.5334/2013-02

Abstract

In today's hypermedia landscape, youth and young adults are increasingly using social media platforms, online aggregators and mobile applications for daily information use. Communication educators, armed with a host of free, easy-to-use online tools, have the ability to create dynamic approaches to teaching and learning about information and communication flow online. In this paper we explore the concept of curation as a student- and creation-driven pedagogical tool to enhance digital and media literacy education. We present a theoretical justification for curation and present six key ways that curation can be used to teach about critical thinking, analysis and expression online. We utilize a case study of the digital curation platform Storify to explore how curation works in the classroom, and present a framework that integrates curation pedagogy into core media literacy education learning outcomes.

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Study

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Recommended Citation

Cohen, James N. MA and Mihailidis, Paul, "Exploring Curation as a core competency in digital and media literacy education" (2013). Faculty Works: DH & NM (2010-2019). 4.
https://digitalcommons.molloy.edu/dhnm_fac/4