I think digital curation is definitely an important skill that should be learned by all. With how many sites and blogs and videos we view on a daily basis, digital curation is needed. Curation makes everything so much simpler and keeps things organized. With all the different sites we use it can get almost overwhelming and clustered. By keeping everything you do online organized you can do things quicker, and it well help keep you from getting flustered.
Myself personally I use favorites on my computer and have everything organized into different folders, I have one for social media, school, sports sites etc. So this is great for my personal computer but when I am in public I have no access to this, so after discovering how easy feedly is, I am going to start using it to keep myself organized.
For my students I will have them set up a feebly account or another site similar to that, because they will be using public computers. This way they stay organized, and they don't have to worry about using the same computer every time. Another plus to having students use a site like this is they are really easy to use. The first time you login and set up your feed it will take some time but after the initial setup its a breeze to add and modify feeds.
Tim, I agree with your assessment of Feedly. As a neophyte to RSS feeds, I see the value in them as well. I rather like the simplicity of Feedly's interface, but after overhearing about Digg Reader today in class, I'm probably going to "meddle in the middle" with that RSS Reader as well.
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