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Tag: curation

AI and judgement: Cultivating taste in an age of capability

Oct 15, 2025

in AI, Leadership, Learning, Writing

academia, AI literacy, automation, content creation, content generation, creation, critical thinking, curation, digital capability, evaluation, evaluative judgement, higher education, human judgement, professional development, professional identity, taste

Content creation is trivially easy now. Curation—selecting what to make—is also becoming easier as AI learns your patterns. What remains is taste: evaluative judgement about what should exist in the first place. AI can be descriptive but not evaluative. It can learn your preferences but cannot judge whether they’re worth amplifying. That’s your responsibility.
Stop curating content for students

Dec 9, 2016

in Teaching

content, curation, filtering, searching

There’s no point in spending any time curating content for students. Think of all the time you spend searching for, filtering, aggregating, and collating content for students. Then the time you need to spend keeping that list updated. Every year there’ll be new resources available, which means you need to start comparing what you have with what…