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Interview with Larry Johnson on the Horizon Report 2012 Museum Edition

Posted on February 25, 2013 by Barry

For ten years the New Media Consortium (“an international not-for-profit consortium dedicated to the exploration and use of new media and new technologies”) prepares a handy guide to the role of digital media and learning. Recently they have begun to … Continue reading →

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Games-based Learning: National STEM Game-design Challenge and Connected Learning

Posted on February 15, 2013 by Barry

The National STEM Game Design Challenge This past Sunday, for the first time, the Museum partnered with the National STEM Game Design Challenge to support science content as a subject with game design entries. The Challenge, run by the Joan … Continue reading →

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Interview with Brenda Hernandez, National Museum of Mexican Art: “In an homago state of mind”

Posted on February 14, 2013 by Barry

Brenda Hernandez is not only a Programs Coordinator for Yollocalli Arts Reach, a youth initiative of the National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago. She is also Yollocalli alum, and a former high school teacher (and has written about art … Continue reading →

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Webinar: “Connected Learning As Pathway to Equity & Opportunity”

Posted on February 7, 2013 by Barry

Today I had the pleasure of participating as a respondant in a webinar led by Craig Watkins & Juliet Schor addressing the following question: How does connected learning combat the growing gap between the ‘haves’ and ‘have-nots’ in education, and … Continue reading →

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Interview with Kate Carmody on the Museum of Modern Art and Games as Curated Objects

Posted on February 4, 2013 by Barry

Video games, designed for play in the home or in arcades (does anyone still remember arcades?) are appearing more and more often in museums (re: Spacewar! at the Museum of the Moving Image: The Challenge of Bringing Games Into Museums). … Continue reading →

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Big Issues Explored in AMNH’s Digital Learning Week

Posted on January 21, 2013 by Barry

Tomorrow begins four days of non-stop action at the AMNH, and I couldn’t be more excited. We have spent months trying to plan these four day-long programs to take advantage of NYC high school youth being (largely) free during Regents … Continue reading →

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3D Printing Comes to the AMNH

Posted on January 14, 2013 by Barry

Today we finished installing the AMNH’s first (and I have a feeling far from last) 3D printer. We have a bunch of ideas of how we can use it to advance informal science learning. We also well know, however, that … Continue reading →

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Minecraft is Coming to the AMNH

Posted on January 13, 2013 by Barry

I am so excited that, in one week, the AMNH will be holding it’s first Minecraft-based educational program: FoodCraft. Working with the great folks at TeacherGaming, who developed MinecraftEdu, we will take the youth into two custom-built Minecraft maps to … Continue reading →

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Critique: Event of a (Steampunk) Thread & The Death of a Mad Elephant

Posted on January 13, 2013 by Barry

I was not going to write about The Event of a Thread here, even though I loved it so much that I returned with my family just a few days later, back in December last year: As you might sense … Continue reading →

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The 2013 Mooshme Survey: Looking Back, Looking Forward

Posted on January 8, 2013 by Barry

As 2012 turned to 2013, I wondered what the highlights had been in the past year in the intersection of digital media and museum-based learning? At the same time, I wondered what trends I needed to watch in the coming … Continue reading →

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