Skip to main content

Home/ Diigo In Education/ Group items matching "museum" in title, tags, annotations or url

Group items matching
in title, tags, annotations or url

Sort By: Relevance | Date Filter: All | Bookmarks | Topics Simple Middle
Martin Leicht

Distracted Minds: Why You Should Teach Like a Poet - 4 views

  • Routine is a great deadener of attention.
  • When you follow the same routines at home, folding the laundry or doing the dishes, your mind goes on automatic pilot.
  • same generic suite of teaching activities: listen to a lecture, take notes, ask some questions, talk in groups.
  • ...17 more annotations...
  • Be astonished.
  • Pay attention.
  • Through the creative turns of language they use to describe the world and our experiences, the familiar becomes unfamiliar again, and we discover in the everyday world fresh food for insight and reflection.
  • We want them to pay attention to course content, to be astonished by what they find there, and to report back to us and the world what they have discovered.
  • Find an everyday object that connects to your discipline, or a photograph or image that accompanies an article or book in your field.
  • Close — and I mean really close — reading.
  • in which practitioners slowly read the sacred scriptures of Judaism aloud to one another, pausing and discussing and questioning at every turn.
  • Tell about it.
  • asked what they had learned from the experience, and especially what they had noticed about the text that they hadn’t perceived before
    • Martin Leicht
       
      Metacognition exercise of sorts?
  • Engagement with objects.
  • pointed out anomalies and inconsistencies, and wondered
  • What? For the first step, students spend time just observing the object and taking notes.
  • So what? Students write down questions based on their observations and share them with one another.
  • Now what? The final stage shifts into more whole-class and teacher-centered discussion
  • Attention through assessments.
  • For 13 consecutive weeks, she asked students to leave the campus and make a visit to the nearby Worcester Art Museum in order to spend time in front of the same work of art.
  • As they learned to train their attention on a work of art, their attention brought them insights. They saw more clearly, developed new ideas, and wrote creatively about what they observed.
  •  
    Could some or all of this work online to build engagement? 1) close reading 2) engage with objects 3) attention through assessments
Martin Burrett

Sketchfab British Museum - 17 views

  •  
    "View over 200 3D models of historical objects from the British Museum. Manipulate the models online, view using Google Cardboard and download the models to print on a 3D printer."
Dan Bench

Digital Public Library of America - 57 views

shared by Dan Bench on 10 Mar 17 - No Cached
  •  
    database of digital content from libraries, archives and museums
Martin Burrett

CoSpaces - 38 views

  •  
    "A superb platform for creating 3D virtual reality environments to view on your mobile device. Choose from the bank of 3D models or upload/search for your own. You can create sequential scenes like a presentation which is great for story writing or even teaching. Create virtual museums or even a digital class display of pupil's work to share with parents."
Martin Burrett

Pop-up museum by @primarylessons - 44 views

  •  
    "A member of staff said to me at INSET last Friday that all they wanted from INSET was to take away at least one idea to make their teaching better or their lessons more exciting. I agree and this was my favourite idea: a pop-up museum."
Glenn Hervieux

Image and Data Resources | The Metropolitan Museum of Art - 34 views

  •  
    The Metropolitan Museum of Art's public domain policy has changed this week, making 375,000 images in the collection free to be used in any which way you can think up.
Martin Burrett

Children gain confidence and social skills when schooled in local museum - 5 views

  •  
    "A new report, published today by King's College London, shows the findings of four projects that for the first time in the UK placed Nursery, Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 children in their local museum for extended residencies. The groups undertook many of their daily lessons and activities at their local museums for a period of between two weeks and up to a full term."
Kate Lee

The 'Maker' Movement Is Coming to K-12: Can Schools Get It Right? - Education Week - 53 views

  •  
    The movement for more hands-on, student-driven learning is going mainstream, migrating from museums and garages into the highly regulated world of K-12 education.
Nigel Coutts

Girls in Tech - Reflections from VIVID Ideas - The Learner's Way - 12 views

  •  
    Sydney has become a beacon that brings people together and sparks conversations. Most recently the conversation centred on the topic of girls in tech and what might be done to re-dress the gender balance in STEAM subjects and related career pathways. Sponsored by INTEL this Vivid Ideas event drew a mix of entrepreneurs, educators and tech luminaries to the Museum of Contemporary Art on a Saturday afternoon to share their ideas on what might be done.
Martin Burrett

Google Museum of the World - 86 views

  •  
    A superb site from Google and the British museum. An interactive timeline of interconnected historical objects from all over the world. Click on them to view details.
anonymous

The Internet's Dark Ages - The Atlantic - 51 views

  • It’s not a place in any reliable sense of the word. It is not a repository. It is not a library. It is a constantly changing patchwork of perpetual nowness.
  • It’s unstable.
  • “Except when it goes, it really goes,” said Jason Scott, an archivist and historian for the Internet Archive. “It’s gone gone. A piece of paper can burn and you can still kind of get something from it. With a hard drive or a URL, when it’s gone, there is just zero recourse.”
  • ...6 more annotations...
  • The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine has a trove of cached web pages going back to 1996.
  • It is not just access to knowledge, but the knowledge itself that’s at stake.
  • Ephemerality is built into the very architecture of the web, which was intended to be a messaging system, not a library.
  • And yet there are no robust mechanisms for libraries and museums to acquire, and thus preserve, digital collections.
  • Vaughan was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in
  • The Internet is now considered a great oracle, a place where information lives and knowledge is stitched together.
Michele Brown

Games and Facts from Galleries of Canadian Museum of Nature - 33 views

  •  
    These interactives originate in the galleries of the Canadian Museum of Nature. Even if you can't make it to the Museum, you can enjoy a virtual experience!
Jennifer Nordensvan

Art-Making Programs | The Metropolitan Museum of Art - 80 views

  •  
    Take advantage of this!
David Howard

National Museum of Australia Galleries - Google Cultural Institute - 20 views

  •  
    Google Art project, take virtual tours of galleries
Roland Gesthuizen

Art in Island: Largest 3D Museum in Asia | Riane's Leisure Finds - 34 views

  •  
    Art in Island, the largest 3D museum in Asia, was introduced to the public located in Cubao, Quezon City.
Elizabeth Pitel

Philadelphia Museum of Art - School & Teachers : Teacher Resources - 39 views

  •  
    A great lesson plan resource for correlating art with other curricular areas
Elizabeth Pitel

Philadelphia Museum of Art - Exhibitions - Represent: 200 Years of African American Art - 17 views

  •  
    Collection and slideshow of great works of art by African American Artists
robert morris

When the Art Is Watching You - WSJ - 31 views

  •  
    Personalized learning, opt in or opt out.
1 - 20 of 118 Next › Last »
Showing 20 items per page