{"title":"We Are All Curators Now","authors":"James M. Skidmore","doi":"10.3138/seminar.57.3.forum001","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The volume of information circulating online has become so large that it overwhelms the human capacity to comprehend it. Although algorithms and digital tools may be necessary simply to cope with the flow of data, people still need to learn how to select, use, and interpret the digital material available to them; in short, they need to adopt some of the principles of curation to contend with the information overflow. Educators, whose work as teachers makes them natural curators, have a critical role to play in helping learners develop their curation skills.","PeriodicalId":44556,"journal":{"name":"SEMINAR-A JOURNAL OF GERMANIC STUDIES","volume":"3 1 1","pages":"288 - 294"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5000,"publicationDate":"2021-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"SEMINAR-A JOURNAL OF GERMANIC STUDIES","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.3138/seminar.57.3.forum001","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"LITERATURE, GERMAN, DUTCH, SCANDINAVIAN","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract:The volume of information circulating online has become so large that it overwhelms the human capacity to comprehend it. Although algorithms and digital tools may be necessary simply to cope with the flow of data, people still need to learn how to select, use, and interpret the digital material available to them; in short, they need to adopt some of the principles of curation to contend with the information overflow. Educators, whose work as teachers makes them natural curators, have a critical role to play in helping learners develop their curation skills.
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The first issue of Seminar appeared in the Spring of 1965, sponsored jointly by the Canadian Association of University Teachers of German (CAUTG) and the German Section of the Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association (AULLA). This collaborative sponsorship has continued to the present day, with the Journal essentially a Canadian scholarly journal, its Editors all Canadian, likewise its publisher, and managerial and editorial decisions taken by the Editor and/or the Canadian Editorial Committee,the Australasian Associate Editor being responsible for the selection of articles submitted from that area.