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Kill the curriculum?

Clark Quinn

The emergent nature of knowledge out of a network argues against a fixed curriculum and instead for contextualized knowledge. State standards are a joke. Which means our standardized tests need tossing, too, but then that should also be obvious. I don’t do long-division anymore.

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Why Content Curation Should be in Your Skillset

Jay Cross

And, as Clay Shirky has said: “Curation comes up when people realize that it isn’t just about information seeking, it’s also about synchronizing a community.”. Every day I would sift through a hundred or more items suggested by my social networks or the search engines. Marketing departments love curation.).