Digital curation for promoting personalized learning: A study of secondary-school science students' learning experiences

• Published in: Journal of research on technology in education Vol. 52; no. 3; pp. 429 - 440
• Main Author: Tsybulsky, Dina
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Eugene Routledge 02.07.2020; Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Subjects: Classification; Cognitive Processes; Cognitive Style; Decision Making; Digital curation; Elementary Secondary Education; Emotional Experience; Foreign Countries; Information Sources; Information Technology; Learning; Learning Activities; Learning Experience; Learning Processes; personal subject ontology; personalized learning; Phenomenology; Preferences; Science Education; science learning experiences; Secondary School Students; Student Attitudes; Student Projects; Web Sites; Israel
• ISSN: 1539-1523; 1945-0818
• DOI: 10.1080/15391523.2020.1728447

The article presents a research study that examined the ways in which digital curation promotes personalized learning, as well as the students' experiences of this learning process. The study was conducted in the context of K-12 education. Participants spent three months on a project that included curating a personalized digital collection. The study was conducted using a phenomenological qualitative approach for the collection and processing of data. Findings demonstrate that digital curation provides a productive learning activity that supports significant personalized, emotional, and cognitive learning experiences, enabling the curator to construct a personal subject ontology.