I really enjoyed learning about why it is important for students and teachers to learn how to be good content curators. For teachers, it helps them build their personal learning network (PLN). For students and teachers, curating content makes them interact with the materials they choose and add their point of view to the presentation of knowledge. They learn what is the most important knowledge to know, and think critically about what they are learning. I also loved that the two sides to curation are celebration and critique!

Content Curation Process by Beth KanterAttribution (CC BY 2.0)

Notion was super easy to sign up for, and was pretty simple to figure out! I explored around and it seems like a cool resource! I think I would use Notion for when I need to organize my research and use some more complex things that Microsoft Word doesn’t create easily (like to-do lists, tables, embedding videos, etc.). I appreciate how straight forward it is, and how organized the whole layout is. It also helped push me into the world of AI, since it has an AI function. I have never used AI before, but I have been wanting to try it out. I tested it of course, and I was pleasantly surprised! I put in “write a paragraph about the pros and cons of the bc curriculum” and it did a pretty good job of completing that task. I definitely won’t be using it all the time just yet, but it was a good way to try it out for the first time.

Lastly, this week our learning pod tried out Padlet. Honestly, I find it a tad confusing but I am still exploring it. I’ll talk to the group next week and ask for their thoughts on it. Maybe they’ll have some tips on how to make it work better for me!