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Feelings and Participation

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Today, I wanted to think about participatory elements, something so essential to this blog. But, while adjacent, museums differ from formal classrooms in numerous ways. Those feelings developed over hours of classroom time with a human. The American Museum of Natural History had two wonderful moments happening this summer.

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How False Conviction Could Help Science Centers Be More Human

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Then again, the New York Hall of Science isn’t just any science center. I cut out from the meeting by myself to check out an exhibition called Open House, if These Walls Could Talk at the Minnesota History Center. The Innocence Project is a tremendously participatory project, with hundreds of volunteers around the country.

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