The Role of Museums in Today’s Societies

 https://youtu.be/cjx1F-N3YbQ
Nina Simon - TedTalk
https://youtu.be/aIcwIH1vZ9w
Constructivist and constructionist learning theories
https://youtu.be/Xa59prZC5gA
For Educators: Your Museum Visit
https://youtu.be/T3G85Umn4Js
Tips and tricks for educators at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York:
http://academy.schooleducationgateway.eu/web/learning-in-a-museum/reto?p_p_auth=sPD44NHw&p_p_id=resourceExternalActivity_WAR_liferaylmsportlet&p_p_lifecycle=0&p_p_state=normal&p_p_mode=view&p_r_p_564233524_actId=5013&p_r_p_564233524_moduleId=2822&_resourceExternalActivity_WAR_liferaylmsportlet_actionEditingActivity=false&_resourceExternalActivity_WAR_liferaylmsportlet_actionEditingDetails=false&_resourceExternalActivity_WAR_liferaylmsportlet_actionEditingModule=false&_resourceExternalActivity_WAR_liferaylmsportlet_actionCalifications=false&p_o_p_id=activityViewer_WAR_liferaylmsportlet
Using Exhibits as Assessment:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOT-9J-iapU
Virtual Museums:
https://vimeo.com/31821923
Immersive virtual visits:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p86gh2HEsp0
Travelling museum:
https://youtu.be/fiYWPx3Dnek
Takeover day:
https://vimeo.com/114636466
Travelling museum (e-Twining):
https://youtu.be/fiYWPx3Dnek

And, of couse, it will all run smoothly if we also involve the school leaders, parents and families. Whay not bring an available parent (or grandparent) with us?

After knowing want we want it  is essencial to communicate that goals and ideias to the Museum Education Staff so that they can prepare the best fieldtrip and activities for us.

amvicencio (Portugal)

Most museums are very wide and diverse contexts for learning so it is important to reduce the "novelty" effect. Otherwise the students will feel a bit lost and probably it will be difficult for them to focus on the activities (and learning) related with the main learning goals for the visit to the museum. So, it is very important that the main goals of the visit are explicit to the students and that they know from the very begginning what king of assignments they are supposed to develop from that visit. It is also important that they can get to know something about the museum that they are about to visit: what kind of museum it is? What are the mais themes explored in the museum collections? How is the space at the museum organized? It is essencial that all the security rules and schedules are also explicit to everyone.

There are a lot of ways to prepare our students for the visit and the activities that they will develop. We can just tell all about this in an oral presentation, give them a resume (written information) but if we could we should try a more Inquiry apporoach. We can divede our studets in small groups (3 or 4 students/group) and challenge them to research information about the museum, come up with a research-question or problem and plan an investigation that they can carry on at the museum. They can also get started from a problem or resarch-question and reseach what museum could help them with their inquiry. Either way, it is very important that students feel that they will learn something new at the museum. It will be a fieldtrip not a saunter.

amvicencio (Portugal)

― Baba Dioum

― Baba Dioum