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\u2018Students have access to unprecedented amounts of information online and need to move beyond consumption to more critical, organised and productive use of digital materials, tools and platforms.\u2019<\/strong> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

That was the opening sentence of our blog post on Learning through finding, choosing, sorting and sharing<\/a> published in 2015. Since then, the need to develop critical skills has become even more important, so this post will look again at this topic and suggest some current digital tools and strategies to help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Creating or Curating?<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Increasingly students are being encouraged to create digital artefacts as part of their learning, whether that is by blogging, podcasting, creating video etc. which is great for developing digital capability. However, curating content which involves \u2018sorting through the vast amounts of content on the web and presenting it in a meaningful and organized way around a specific theme\u2019 (http:\/\/www.bethkanter.org\/content-curation-101\/<\/a>) can be very useful for developing critical thinking<\/a> alongside digital capabilities<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Part of the curation process is identifying which tools work for your context and which sources are useful. For example, Twitter<\/a> is useful for finding relevant material and discussions, LinkedIn<\/a> offers opportunities to get involved in subject-specific communities and RSS readers such as Feedly<\/a> or Inoreader<\/a> allow you to keep up with many blogs easily and share content.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When using any of these tools the first step is choosing who to \u2018follow\u2019. It is important to critically \u2018curate\u2019 people\/institutions so that relevant, reliable information is surfaced in a timely and usable format. For example, Twitter lists<\/a> allow you to organise content from accounts you don\u2019t necessarily \u2018follow\u2019 which can help with managing the flow of content.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Student activities could include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n