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American Museum of Natural History "OLOGY" website for kids - 113 views

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    This is an interactive website that is very useful for science classes.
Steve Ransom

Search the Digital Archives - John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum - 19 views

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    Great resource here for history topics. Access to all kinds of primary sources, including audio files, related to the JFK administration.
Julie Dillard

What is Smallpox | Edward Jenner Museum, Gloucestershire - 19 views

  • enters the body through the lungs and is carried in the blood to the internal organs, which it infects.
  • e virus variola
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    ELA Epidemics Research
webExplorations

Adobe Museum of Digital Media - 106 views

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    A-B-C Atoms (physical) Bits (Virtual) C (craft) Craft? The New Craft: Virtual and Physical blended together. The tools and the media are converging. This site puts you on a high hill giving you a much better viewpoint of the horizon. A new view showing how technology and design are beginning to work together in today's world: A-B-C Enjoy.
Lisa C. Hurst

Lesson Plans | The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum - 68 views

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    Wow, who knew. Some of these lesson plans are great!
tom campbell

Rijksstudio - Rijksmuseum - 22 views

Mrs. Lail2

Art Museum Collections - Google Cultural Institute - 60 views

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    This is a fantastic initiative by Google. I could spend hours on here, and I'm imagining the potential of future virtual field trips!
robert morris

When the Art Is Watching You - WSJ - 31 views

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    Personalized learning, opt in or opt out.
Elizabeth Pitel

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

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    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

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    Collection and slideshow of great works of art by African American Artists
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.”
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  • 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.
Dan Bench

Digital Public Library of America - 57 views

shared by Dan Bench on 10 Mar 17 - No Cached
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    database of digital content from libraries, archives and museums
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.
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  • 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.
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    Could some or all of this work online to build engagement? 1) close reading 2) engage with objects 3) attention through assessments
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