Lessons from digital learning programs for schools at the British Museum's Samsung Digital Discovery Centre. From a seminar on 4 October 2010 at HOC Laboratory at Politecnico di Milano.

1. Teaching ancient art through technology:
Digital learning programmes for schools at The British Museum
Seminar at HOC Lab, Politecnico di Milano
4th October 2010
Shelley Mannion
Digital Learning Programmes Manager
The British Museum

3. Photo Wally Gobetz
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wallyg/301493387

5. • Spotlight lectures (up to 350 children)
• Seminar sessions (90 minutes)
• Gallery-based activities
• Digital workshops

6. • Primary school children
• Ages 7-11
• Curriculum links:
• Ancient Greece
• Ancient Rome
• Roman Britain
• Anglo Saxons
• Aztecs

7. Samsung Digital Discovery Centre
at the British Museum

8. Opened March 2009
Five year sponsorship includes
–Refurbished ICT room
–Equipment
–Two full-time posts
–One part-time IT support technician

9. Schools Families
9 different sessions
3 days per week
Up to 30 students
25 sessions and counting
50 weekends per year
15-150 participants per day

10. Clore Learning Centre
E-learning Studio, Fall 2009

13. Sackler Centre Digital Studio
Victoria & Albert Museum
Opened 2008

15. This wall goes away

17. Creation
Capture

25. Blended learning experiences

26. Where is my
cooking pot?
Everybody has a job

29. Creation
Creation
Whose hand is on
the mouse?!?

30. Creation tools
• Vuvox
• Glogster
• Comic Life
• Blender
• Flash
• Photoshop
• Animoto
• VoiceThread

31. Multimedia magic

33. When were you generous?

35. http://s012.sddcteacher.edu.glogster.
com/28-jan-2010-elijah-partner/

37. Direct use of ICT by children
Develops complex ICT skills
Requires careful preparation

38. Got it.
Digital photography blends capture & creation

39. Only 8% of
families use
digital cameras
for learning
Museum of London
Learning in Families
FutureLab, 2009

40. Posing with objects.
Modelling movements.
Acting things out.

43. Use museum building
as site for artistic
photography

47. Hard things can be easy

50. But some things are just hard
Could children do more of the
editing? The children were keen to
use the computers more themselves,
but did not have the opportunity.

53. Hard to standardize technique
Dwell time to 90 minutes
Maximum 3 families per slot

55. Okay, where to
next?
Mobile devices

60. Sony PSP

61. Gesture-based

62. Digital Decode

63. Distance learning

65. Alternate reality