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Highlights from AMNH’s Booth at World Maker Faire NYC 2013

I wrote earlier about our plans at the Museum to offer activities at this year’s Maker Faire (Scientists, Dinosaurs, Origamiā€¦ Oh My! Event Schedue for AMNH at Maker Faire NY). It was some amazing list of sheer awesome. But I … Continue reading

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Using Card Games to Bring a Sense of Play to Informal Science Learning

This Fall the Museum will be launching our first Science Card Game program (more details later and registration notification sign-up here). This grew, in part, from a number of Digital Playgrounds I blogged about last spring, such as the awesome … Continue reading

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RiFF interview with me: Blending Digital Media, Badging, and Museum-Based Learning

I am excited to be the feature interview this month on the Digital Media and Learning Research Hub’s RiFF Expert Interview Series. It is a great interview and captures what I am thinking about eight months into the job. Check … Continue reading

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Science simulations, mobile games, and the future of museum-based situated learning: Interview with Kevin Miklasz, Iridescent

Recently, as I have been playing games on my iPhone that intentionally teach science, I wondered what else was out there. I reached out on the ASTC listserv and heard back from Kevin Miklasz, Director of Digital Curriculum at Iridescent … Continue reading

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Spacewar! at the Museum of the Moving Image: The Challenge of Bringing Games Into Museums

This has been a busy season for video games in NYC museums, what with the acquisitions announcement from the Museum of Modern Art and the Meade Arcade at the American Museum of Natural History (an upcoming interview here will focus … Continue reading

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