The Clutter Museum: An excellent and sharp critique of social media #curation as education

Entities Mentioned

• New York Times
• Robert Scoble
• Curation

1. I don’t mean to imply that curators are above the fray, that they hold themselves at arm’s length from education. But their function is different. Curation is not a process of choosing the best resources to help other people learn. It’s much, much more, and to suggest that social bookmarking, sharing links via Twitter, or using an internet platform’s algorithm to help you determine which songs belong on your internet radio station is curation is ridiculous. (Read Full Article)

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