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AMAZING! You can brows art galleries, REAL ONES like the MoMA and the Tate, just like you browse street views in google maps!

Hi everyone! This site is so amazing! I got the link from the Free Technology for teachers blog, and I'm totally blown away with how Google has used its technology. They have taken their 'street view' browsing from Google Maps and applied it to major museums all over the world! I can't wait to get this into the classroom, and am trying to figure out how to incorporate it into next week's lesson for my third and fourth grade art classes. While an actual museum visit is an irreplaceable learning experience, field trips require so much planning and preparation and time, and students who can't get their permission slips in for whatever reason are excluded from the learning for that project or section. Besides, Pittsburgh Public students can exactly visit New York or Madrid on a field trip! The site even lets you make your own art collections as you browse, which would be a great way to assess student's comprehension of different styles of artwork. We could even create a digital scavenger hunt! Amazing!

I had originally posted a video by Sugata Mitra and then moved onto activity 3 and low and behold there was an earlier version of my video so I figured I should contribute something new. This blog post discusses whether Students should be just that or learners. Also what role does a teacher play? A teacher or also a learner?

This article outlines the difference between students and learners. I think the best way to sum up students would be obligated sort of employees of the school while learners are more self-motivated inqusitive "students," for lack of better words. This idea was raised at a conference he was at when he was receiving a lot of resistance from educators. The reason this sparked my interest is because I think this speaks to the type of student today and how teaching and the classroom should be. They are perfectly capable of being learners instead of students, but it almost seems like it has to be the goal of the teacher, the environment they create, the standard they set, and the way they treat/view the "students" to achieve this.

This article outlines the difference between students and learners. I think the best way to sum up students would be obligated sort of employees of the school while learners are more self-motivated inqusitive "students," for lack of better words. This idea was raised at a conference he was at when he was receiving a lot of resistance from educators. The reason this sparked my interest is because I think this speaks to the type of student today and how teaching and the classroom should be. They are perfectly capable of being learners instead of students, but it almost seems like it has to be the goal of the teacher, the environment they create, the standard they set, and the way they treat/view the "students" to achieve this.