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Strategies for Digital Learning
How technology changes and challenges
museum education
Shelley Mannion The British Museum@smannion #dish2011
Photos: benedictjohnson.comAlastair Fyfe
WHAT DIGITAL OFFERS
1. New interaction styles
New kinds of activities
1. New interaction styles
Opportunities for kinaesthetic and mechanical learners
1. New interaction styles
1. New interaction styles
OCGM: Objects, Containers, Gestures, Manipulations
Boys
1. New interaction styles
1. New interaction styles
New models of collaborative learning
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2. Participatory learning
3. New programming
models
Expose under-used areas of the collection
3. New programming
models
Training for future careers
3. New programming
models
4. Space as canvas
WHAT DIGITAL CHALLENGES
Role of the educator must include project management
Conflicts with other digital work in the organisation
1. New interaction styles
Most museum systems designed for standard “tours”
Current funding models don’t support application development
1. New interaction styles
2. Participatory learning
Conflicts around institutional authority
Permissions and copyright
3 New programming models
Setting teachers’ expectations
Challenges to curatorial control over narratives
4. Space as canvas
Who owns your venue?
Do outside companies understand your audience/collection?
Collaboration versus competition
Uniting the on-site and online experience
Unrealised potential