I'm working with our 11th grade DP students on their extended essays, and we're about to start talking about resource gathering or curation. I really want to get them thinking about research differently: not just collecting a bunch of sources, but how it all fits together into a larger story of their own telling.
I've been wondering how I was going to get that concept across to them meaningfully--it took me a while to grasp the ideas behind curation, so how can I expect it of them?--and then I ran across
this article.
Basically, it talks about Rachel Maddow and Jon Stewart as curators who use their findings to
fit the story for their show that day: just think of Stewart's devastating ability at using video clips to utterly demolish politicians' talking points (which tell one story) and create a counter-narrative.
Bingo! What a relevant, topical, and pop-cultural way of
showing them how good curation works! It beats me blathering abstractions at them for an hour!
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