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Seminar at HOC Lab, Politecnico di Milano 4 th October 2010 Shelley Mannion Digital Learning Programmes Manager The British Museum Teaching ancient art through technology: Digital learning programmes for schools at The British Museum

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Lessons from digital learning programs for schools at the British Museum's Samsung Digital Discovery Centre. From a seminar on 4 October 2010 at HOC Laboratory at Politecnico di Milano.

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Seminar at HOC Lab, Politecnico di Milano

4th October 2010

Shelley Mannion

Digital Learning Programmes Manager

The British Museum

Teaching ancient art through technology:Digital learning programmes for schools at The British Museum

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Photo Wally Gobetz

http://www.flickr.com/photos/wallyg/301493387

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• Spotlight lectures (up to 350 children)

• Seminar sessions (90 minutes)

• Gallery-based activities

• Digital workshops

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• Primary school children

• Ages 7-11

• Curriculum links:

• Ancient Greece

• Ancient Rome • Roman Britain

• Anglo Saxons

• Aztecs

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Samsung Digital Discovery Centreat the British Museum

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Opened March 2009

Five year sponsorship includes

–Refurbished ICT room

–Equipment

–Two full-time posts

–One part-time IT support technician

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9 different sessions

3 days per week

Up to 30 students

25 sessions and counting

50 weekends per year

15-150 participants per day

Schools Families

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Clore Learning Centre

E-learning Studio, Fall 2009

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Sackler Centre Digital Studio

Victoria & Albert Museum

Opened 2008

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This wall goes away

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Capture

Creation

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Blended learning experiences

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Everybody has a job

Where is my

cooking pot?

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Creation

Whose hand is on

the mouse?!?

Creation

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Creation tools

• Vuvox

• Glogster

• Comic Life

• Blender

• Flash

• Photoshop

• Animoto

• VoiceThread

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Multimedia magic

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When were you generous?

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Direct use of ICT by children

Develops complex ICT skills

Requires careful preparation

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Digital photography blends capture & creation

Got it.

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Only 8% of

families use

digital cameras

for learning

Museum of London

Learning in FamiliesFutureLab, 2009

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Posing with objects.

Modelling movements.

Acting things out.

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Use museum building

as site for artistic

photography

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Hard things can be easy

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Could children do more of the

editing? The children were keen to

use the computers more themselves,

but did not have the opportunity.

But some things are just hard

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Hard to standardize technique

Dwell time to 90 minutes

Maximum 3 families per slot

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Okay, where to

next?

Mobile devices

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Sony PSP

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Gesture-based

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Digital Decode

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Distance learning

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Alternate reality