STORIFY FOR CURATING TWEETS (LEARNING THROUGH CONNECTIVISM)

Storify can be used to instantly curate "chatters" and "snapshots" that are on "up-to-the-minute" social issues; this is how many professional journalists are using Storify. Students can use Storify to prepare "lesson plans" for in class presentations by curating relevant tweets on an assigned topic

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    Wed, Aug 01 2012 23:49:48

  2. WHAT IS CONNECTIVISM?  HOW DOES STORIFY ENHANCE LEARNING?

  3. A strong relationship exists between the learning theory of Connectivism and curation tools such as Storify.  To understand this relationship, we need to recognize what the learning theory of Connectivism is.  According to Siemen:

    "Learning is a process that occurs within nebulous environments of shifting core elements – not entirely under the control of the individual. Learning (defined as actionable knowledge) can reside outside of ourselves (within an organization or a database), is focused on connecting specialized information sets, and the connections that enable us to learn more are more important than our current state of knowing"

    Siemen further defines several principles of Connectivism:

    "- Learning and knowledge rests in diversity of opinions
    - Learning is a process of connecting specialized nodes or information sources
    - Learning may reside in non-human appliances
    - Capacity to know more is more critical than what is currently known
    - Nurturing and maintaining connections is needed to facilitate continual learning
    - Ability to see connections between fields, ideas, and concepts is a core skill
    - Currency (accurate, up-to-date knowledge) is the intent of all connectivist learning activities
    - Decision-making is itself a learning process. Choosing what to learn and the meaning of incoming information is seen through the lens of a shifting reality. While there is a right answer now, it may be wrong tomorrow due to alterations in the information climate affecting the decision"


    -- George Siemens (December 12, 2004), "Connectivism:  A Learning Theory for the Digital Age"

  4. elearnspace. Connectivism: A Learning Theory for the Digital Age
    Update (April 5, 2005): I've added a website to explore this concept at www. connectivism.ca. Introduction. Behaviorism, cognitivism...
    Elearnspace
  5. Based on this theory, we can argue that curator tools, such as Storify, can enhance learning by giving students the abilities to discover and document a diversity of opinions from the web, and to make decisions on how to connect and filter social knowledge to achieve deeper understanding.  Curation allows students to amass and work with an abundant amount of social knowledge (mostly opinions) from the web. Essentially, students would become better learners by becoming better curators

  6. CURATE TWEETS LIKE A JOURNALIST!

  7. Digital Journalists often use Storify to curate the most relevant tweets on current social issues as a way of gathering and analyzing feedback from the web audience (similar to getting commentaries from "the man on the street," but with less effort). With a large amount of commentaries curated, a journalist plays the role of a data analyst, filtering, dissecting, synthesizing, and then distilling the essence of people's opinions.  Finally, the journalist presents the analysis as a news report to reveal the dominant mood of public opinion on the issue

    The journalism process is analog to the academic research process, where students amass a large amount of information on a particular research topic, and then filter, dissect, synthesize, and distill the information to identify the most relevant arguments and evidence; students go through this process to find credible information that can be used to support a research paper

    Thus, teaching students to curate tweets helps students develop a deeper understanding of an issue based on social knowledge construction, when a sea of information (mostly not credible) is available. We are applying the theory of Connectivism when we ask students to curate tweets

  8. EXAMPLE OF CURATING TWEETS BY 1 TOPIC

  9. Below is an example of curating tweets on the topic of "Technological Singularity." Notice that the tweets are carefully filtered and organized based on categories; irrelevant content is filtered out.  Also, check out the links and images that appear in each tweet!  Besides links to news articles, Twitter now allows users to tweet images and videos (so tweets lead you to finding more information).  The stream of tweets reflects engaging social conversations, and can be used as a "storyboard" of a narrative on a given issue:

  10. Twitter News on Technological Singularity

  18. Twitter Skepticism toward Technological Singularity

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