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1. task-based
2. interdisciplinary
3. collaborative and individualized
4. learner and teacher-led
5. technologically innovative
6. take place both inside and outside school
7. involve collaboration with the wider community
8. pay attention to the social and emotional aspects of learning

**assessment**

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The Role of Museums in Today’s Societies

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The Role of Museums in Today’s Societies

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key words:
*facilitates the creation of one’s own sense of identity and belonging
*promotes social inclusion processes and lifelong learning

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The Role of Museums in Today’s Societies

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In this module, we will:

explore the definition of a museum

reflect on the concept of museums as social learning spaces

reflect on the concept of museums as constructivist learning spaces

start planning for a museum learning experience

“community centres for intellectual growth”:

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School Education Gateway

Throughout the course, participants will:

discuss the meaning of museum learning and how to set the stage for it

review the learning-in-a-museum competences and evaluate strategies for currently working within them

creatively adapt museum learning to educational projects and design active tasks for museum learning

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The underlying pedagogical principles behind this shift are based on constructivist and constructionist learning theories of the educational philosophers Jean Piagetand Seymour Papert, who argue that children construct knowledge through their interaction with the outside world.

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SheepTag: An Interactive Museum Exhibition

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Museum of Contemporary Native Arts Interactive

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There are usually three main parts to planning a field trip: pre-field trip activitiescompleted in the classroom, field trip activities at the museum, and post-field trip activities conducted back in the classroom.

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teachers can still use museums to develop engagement, excitement, interaction and deep learning

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Visiting an olive museum

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In this module, we will:

explore the idea of developing collaborative classroom projects linked to museums

explore museum take-over days and sleepovers

reflect on other creative museum-based projects

draft the final course product

review your peers’ final course product

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Mystery in the museum: Collaborative learning activities using handheld devices

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Mystery in the museum: Collaborative learning activities using handheld devices

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Come enjoy an overnight expedition at the Penn Museum select Fridays all year long. Explore the worlds of the ancient Maya, Egyptians, Greeks and Romans by flashlight and complete a continent-spanning scavenger hunt before catching 40 winks at the feet of the world's third largest granite sphinx.