Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

To many of these folks, Bob's wired classrooms seem threatening. Institutions like the Boston Children's Museum (which she helped lead in the 1970s) drew heavily from and worked in partnership with the "open classroom" movement to develop informal educational models that are interactive, open-ended, and individualized.

Classroom 22

Classroom Children Museum Model 22

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

Content delivery is less important then the skill to making sense of it and that needs to be what “classroom time” is about. He expects students to read the assignment before they come to class so that instructional time can be spent helping them make sense of it and apply to their work. Illustration by Beth Kanter.

Experiment 116

Experiment Learning Create Exercise 116

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 8, 2010

A Community-Based Approach to Collecting and Cataloging CUL is a replicable model for community archives that accepts every piece of print media from a certain area without making quality or importance judgments, going back as far in history as possible. Our new catalog and website will be up within the next two months.

Chicago 48

Chicago Library Public Culture 48

Museum 2.0

APRIL 23, 2007

Young people who walk into class with wild ideas may walk out (and into jobs) with the perception that those unique ideas are inappropriate or impractical. I support pedantic educational models when goals and outcomes are clear. But should they happen in a classroom? But those are the ideas we need to grow.

Museum 51

Museum Program Student Skills 51

Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

And that might involve collaboration, saying, “We acknowledge that there are others in the community that do this better or more effectively. Maybe I am teaching computer classes, or English as a second language classes, maybe I’m teaching those and I have 10 students. And the field has really shifted since then.

Report 78

Report Measure Impact Process 78

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

The Corte Madera School now uses Bookshare.org books in a range of classes for disabled students. It is open source software, but we're experimenting with a revenue model to sustain the project over the long term. This response is a measure of how eager the environmental field is for a tool that helps better manage projects.

Darfur 100

Darfur Sri Lanka Liberia Colombia 100