resourcing australian curriculum: curating collections
DESCRIPTION
Presentation by Pru Mitchell for the School Library Association of Victoria (SLAV) conference held 28 February 2014. An introduction to a range of selection tools for locating quality resources aligned to the curriculum. Through a workshop participants explore the role of the library in curating balanced collections of digital and physical resources based on expertise in searching, tagging and knowledge management. They look at practical strategies which allow library staff to develop and promote services built on their knowledge of the curriculum and their community.TRANSCRIPT
Pru Mitchell, SCIS Manager
Resourcing the curriculum
SLAV conference, 28 February 2014
Curating collections
• not-for-profit, ministerial company providing services to the Standing Council on School Education and Early Childhood (SCSEEC)
• assists with infrastructure and content to support national initiatives such as Australian Curriculum and Professional Standards for Teachers
• services: SCIS, Curriculum Press, myfuture, edu.au domain registrar, Scootle, Scootle Community
Education Services Australia
esa.edu.au
Curriculum is resourced through
a collection of learning resources and equipment organised, accessed and circulated through a whole of school resource management system that includes all information services…
Learning for the future, 2001, p. 25
Caitlyn 2009 [from SCIS home page]. Used with permission
and also through...
provision of access to human and material resources and information in the wider community, eg State Library, public
libraries, community information agencies and electronic resources.
Learning for the future, 2001, p. 25
Hennings 1892, C
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1. aligning Australian Curriculum with existing resources
2. enabling e-resource access to mobile devices
Top two issues facing school libraries
Softlink 2013 Australian School Library Survey
D’Andrea, E 2009, Cat cloud CC-by-sa
SCIS resourcing curriculum survey 2013
Connections
What is a learning resource?
Nothing more than the fact that somebody, at some time, considers it to be a resource.
Stephen Downes 2003, Resource profiles
It's not what we feed students but what they do with it that counts
Tomaz Lasic @lasic
Insect pinned in the field, 2010,The Australian National Insect Collection, CSIRO Entomology, 2010
Resources made for #austcurr
Discuss: How do teachers successfully identify resources to support curriculum planning?
scienceweb.asta.edu.au
GeogSpace.edu.au
artspop.org.au
songroom.org.au/arts-live
Cross-curriculum priorities
• Connect with Indigenous Maths• Asia Education• Global Education• ABC Splash• Australian Screen Online
Find by Australian Curriculum
Create learning path
1. Search Scootle for content2. Add to Learning Path
Save to the appropriate folderFill in description of Learning path or Collaborative Activity
• selected• organised• searchable• maintained• marketed
What is a collection?
= curated
Learning architecture jigsaw
Assessment
Metadata ANZ-LOM
Sequencing
Curating
Collaboration
Links
Wikis
Digital video
Access Catalogue
LMS
Degrees of content
Content aggregationbringing together articles on a similar topic, grouping them together with no additional commentary or annotation.
Content curationContent has gone through the process of human selection, where a human curator has chosen that content to share to the larger audience. Good curators also provide annotation or notes on why the content is important.
Content creation The original creator of the content, either the author, illustrator, researcher or whomever is the original source.
www.contentcurationmarketing.comwww.contentcurationmarketing.com
australiancurriculum.edu.au History Year 7
Historical Knowledge and Understanding
3. The Asian worldChina
Roles of key groups (ACDSEH041)
Australian CurriculumCurriculum structure
ScOT is used to describe Australian Curriculum
Curriculum content
scot.curriculum.edu.au
Tagging
Curriculum
Link content with high correlation of SCOT tagsAlignment between resources and
curriculum may be inferred via ScOT
ScOT in curriculum
Using ScOT to align current collections
Twitterhashtags #austcurr SCIS @schoolscatinfoScootle @scootle
Blogs scis.edublogs.orgblog.scootle.edu.au
Facebookfacebook.com/schoolscatinfo
Connections