exploring e-learning for the samsung digital discovery centre
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Prepared for members of the Learning & Audiences Team at The British Museum as a way to explore innovative elearning activities for children and teenagers at the Museum's new Samsung Digital Discovery Centre.TRANSCRIPT
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Exploring E-Learning for theSamsung Digital Discovery Centre
The British Museum17th March 2009
Shelley [email protected]
Cicada Liu 2006
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Where I’m from
I remember life before the Internet, but my students don’t.
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Four challenges
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1. The Cool factorImage (1910-15) from Flickr Commons
Library of Congress B2240715
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2. Museum visit life cycle
Long-lasting memories and relationships
The Museum ExperienceBy J. Falk and L. Dierking
Maker of DreamsBy Laura Burlton
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3. Museum as resource for lifelong learning
Image from Flickr Commons. Library of Congress B2267110
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4. A different kind of experience
Alternative AliceBy Laura Burlton
[Some] spaces look a lot like the classrooms they
just left.From Civilizing the Museum
By Elaine Heumann Gurian
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Alternate Routes: Student created multimedia tours
• Full day session• 15-20 secondary (KS3/KS4) students • English, Design & Tech and ICT• Enquiry-based learning model• Multiple perspectives on works of art
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Works of art have a capacity for multiple readings.
Interpretation should make visitors aware of the subjectivity of
interpretive texts.
From Multimedia Tour Programme at Tate ModernMuseums and the Web 2004By Gillian Wilson
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Stage One: Initiating & Eliciting
• Visual bookmarking with digital cameras• Individual, personal exploration• Learners choose own paths of enquiry• Insights from Lugano, Exploratorium
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Stage Two: Defining & Responding
• Group discussion aided by wall display• Categorise images by overarching themes• Groups of 2-3 reflect shared interests• Decide what objects to include
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Stage Three: Doing and Making
• Return to galleries to collect media assets• Research objects on laptops • Script the tour• Record audio with handheld microphones• Create multimedia tour with VoiceThread
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• Supports multiple voices• Includes multiple forms of media• Creates publicly accessible, living artefact
VoiceThread tourof Chinese gallery
at The British Museum
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Stage Four: Communicating, Presenting, Evaluating
• Facilitator creates centralised web page• Students follow tours on mobile PCs• Explore gallery from another perspective• Comment on tours using VoiceThread
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Learning and technology• Personalised visual exploration with digital cameras• Online research on laptops• Multimedia production on laptops• Collaborative discussion with VoiceThread• Just-in-time learning with mobile PCs
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Extending the event
• Tours available for teacher in the classroom• Tours available for parents and friends• Exceptional tours published on museum website• Other visitors can continue to comment
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Talking Animals: Adventures in Chinese Storytelling
• Full day session • 15-20 primary (KS2) students• English, Art & Design• Child development theory (Yardsticks)
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Hear the opera...hear the passover…do you want to hear me yodel? Hear the songs we sang against Genghis Khan...Do you want to hear it?
From Tripmaster Monkeyby Maxine Hong Kingston
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Step One: Storytelling in China
• Talk-story oral tradition• Journey to the West• Videos of master storytellers, adaptations
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Step Two: Quest for animals
• Collect animal objects in gallery with mobile PCs• Sort objects into categories• Photograph favourite animal
with digital cameras
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Step Three: Digital storytelling
• Student pairs select a scene featuring their favourite animal
• Retell the episode in their own way• Draw, colour and scan a backdrop• Act out and film the scene in front of green/blue
screen wall
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Step Four: Post-processing
• Scanned backdrops edited into films• Students decide the order of scenes in final
narrative • Students receive DVD of class story to take home
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Learning and technology• Storytelling videos ignite interest
• Real-time feedback on collecting/sorting on mobile PCs
• Personalisation through visual bookmarking with digital cameras
• Kinaesthetic learning through physical re-enactment and filming
• Completed collective story reflects Chinese cultural practice
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Extending the event
• Connections to musical (2008) and television series
• DVD allows family and friends to appreciate students’ work
• Films could be uploaded to video sharing websites (clips.e2bn.org)
• Individual episodes can be remixed to create new stories
• Hollywood film adaptation planned for 2010
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Four potential programmes
Naturalist andBodily-Kinaesthetic
Lands of Illusion: Spaces and Places of China
Linguistic andInterpersonal
Dancing on Hairpins and Needles: Lives of Chinese
Women
Logical-MathematicalTechniques, Toys and Gadgets: Building Things from
Scratch
Visual-spatial andIntrapersonal
Pillows and iPods: Everyday Objects in China
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Potentialities
• Real-time communication potential of mobile
devices and social networks
• Leveraging students’ own digital devices
• Theatricality of the physical space
• Wacom-like tablets for natural interaction
• Connecting the Centre with galleries
• Connecting museum with classrooms
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Many thanks
All monkey and cartoon illustrations by Cicada Liu (Creative Commons)
Holga photographs by Laura Burlton(Creative Commons)
Archive photographs from Flickr Commons, Library of Congress Collection
Nancy Blume, Asia Society
Lisa Bruemmer, Milwaukee Public MuseumPaul de Jong
Claire Johnstone, The British Museum
Bridget McKenzie, Flow AssociatesClaudia Schallert, University of Vienna
Kris Wetterlund, Sandbox Studios
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References• Enquiry-based learning (www.enquiringminds.org.uk)
• Exploratorium study described by Sherry Hsi in Designing for Mobile Visitor
Engagement (pages 125-146) in Digital Technologies and the Museum
Experience (Tallon and Walker, Eds. 2008)
• Multimedia Tour Programme at Tate Modern by Gillian Wilson in Bearman,
David and Jennifer Trant (Eds.), Papers, Museums and the Web 2004
• VoiceThread for Education (ed.voicethread.com). Example tour of the Chinese
gallery at The British Museum (tr.im/hqLa)
• Yardsticks: Children in the Classroom Ages 4-14 : A Resource for Parents and
Teachers. Chip Wood. Northeast Foundation for Children, 1997.
• Maxine Hong Kingston. The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among
Ghosts
• Learning Styles and Multiple Intelligences from the Museums, Libraries,
Archives Council (MLA)
• Bridget McKenzie’s blog Cultural Interpretation & Creative Education
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