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New Models for Children's Museums: Wired Classrooms?

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There’s a thriving debate about the role computers should play in children’s museums, with many professionals sounding the alarm about the negative impact of exchanging screen time for tactile environments. But the more I learned, the more I wondered where the real threat is, and why children's museums have been so resistant to change.

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Where I'm Coming From

Museum 2.0

There are many parallels between free-choice learning and participatory design. There is money in traditional education, lots more than what MacArthur and other foundations are starting to offer for alternative learning environments. I know the practical answers.

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