Museums Give Teachers Control to Create

Museums Give Teachers Control to Create

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SXSWEdu 2016Wednesday, March 93:30PM - 4:30PM

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Who Are We?Brian AuslandDirector, Education ResearchNavigation North Learning @bausland / [email protected]

Ashley NaranjoLearning Initiatives SpecialistSmithsonian Center for Learning and Digital AccessSmithsonian Institution@AshleyMNaranjo / [email protected]

Darren MilliganSenior Digital StrategistSmithsonian Center for Learning and Digital AccessSmithsonian Institution@darrenmilligan / [email protected]

Melissa WadmanManager of Program EvaluationSmithsonian Center for Learning and Digital AccessSmithsonian Institution@melwad / [email protected]

Who Are You?

Visit: slido.comCode: #sxsweduChoose: Hilton, 400/402

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1. Schools and Digital Media: So What?2. Why the Smithsonian?3. Research 4. Smithsonian Learning Lab5. In the Hands of Teachers6. What’s Next?7. Q/A

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Models

Educator Annotation

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Source: Frontline Design, http://www.frontlinedesign.org/project/night-at-the-museum-2-battle-of-the-smithsonian

Image from Flickr user Mike Procario, https://www.flickr.com/photos/procario/11060000573/, used under a CC BY-ND 2.0license.

Smithsonian (in 2015)

19 Museums and Galleries & National Zoo



138.1M Museums Objects & Specimens2.1M Library Volumes136,194 Cubic feet of archival material



138.1M Museums Objects & Specimens2.1M Library Volumes136,194 Cubic feet of archival material

6,511 Employees721 Research Fellows12,047 Volunteers

199523.6 million physical visits to museums72,942 digital visits


201526.7 million physical visits to museums116 million digital visits



Physical: 26,700,000-23,600,000 / 23,600,000 X 100 = 13.16% increaseDigital: 116,000,000-72,942 / 72,942 X 100 = 158,930.5% increase



Physical: 26,700,000-23,600,000 / 23,600,000 X 100 = 13.16% increaseDigital: 116,000,000-72,942 / 72,942 X 100 = 158,930.5% increase

Pew Research Teachers Survey Report February 2013

92%: Internet has “major impact” on their ability to access content, resources, and materials for their teaching

90%: use search engines to find info

84%: use Internet weekly to find content that will engage students

80%: use Internet weekly to help them create lessons

Image: Haxorjoe at en.wikipedia, http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nokia1100_new.jpg, used under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, 2.5 Generic, 2.0 Generic and 1.0 Generic license.

The Problem

Fragmented BrandOutdated PlatformLack of Detailed Data

Who is using our resources?Why are they using them?How are they using them?Where are they using them?How would they prefer to access them?In what format would they prefer them?Are they using them as designed?Are students learning from them…?

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Remedial Evaluation of the Materials Distributed at the Smithsonian Institution’s Annual Teachers’ Night (2010)

Literature review and evaluation to produce generalizable guidelines for the design and development of museum-based lesson plans and investigated classroom educator methodologies for incorporating museum-based lessons into classrooms.

Capturing the Voice of Customer, Satisfaction Insight Review of SmithsonianEducation.org (2011)

Collected from more than seven thousand surveys completed by visitors to the central Smithsonian Education website, the makeup of this audience, their motivations for site visitation, their activities while on the website, and their sources of dissatisfaction were explored.

Digital Learning Resources Project (2012)

To assist the Smithsonian to better understand the educational uses of Smithsonian digital resources and provide a road map for future digital development.

Research objectives focused on classroom educators’ ability to identify, analyze, and extract digital content, with the ultimate goal of enabling all users to achieve their own personal learning objectives through the Smithsonian’s resources.

Piloting Tools to Enable Active and Participatory Learning for Middle School Students: Facilitating Digital Learning with Smithsonian Digital Resources (2014)

Classroom educators have indicated that relevance to students’ needs are a top priority. We are now testing directly with students to better understand how they use digital museum assets (specifically digitized collection objects) and to document the types of scaffolds necessary to enable active and participatory learning using them.

Results META TIME!

Conclusions Focused on• Educator search preferences• Factors that contribute to difficult

analysis and resistance to use learning resources

• Educators’ preferences for learning resources

• Educators’ preferences for platform content and functionality

Educator Search Preferences

• Searching assist via autocomplete and/or spelling assist

• Search results that allow for both browsing and filtering

• Scannable grade level and subject information

• Resources from a wide variety of sources

Factors that Contribute to Difficult Analysis and Resistance to Use Learning Resources

• Too many search results; too difficult to browse quickly for relevant content

• Distracting user interfaces • Unfamiliar terminology and/or lack

of contextual information

Educators’ Preferences for Learning Resources

• Interdisciplinary and/or multidisciplinary

• Connection to students’ interests• Alignment to teaching standards

and/or relationship to big ideas • Highly Adaptable• Downloadable format

Educators’ Preferences for Platform Content and Functionality

• Content available from more than one one producer/supplier

• Tools available within the platform for student interaction with the resources

• Variety of sharing options• Ability to save and structure

resources within the platform for later review/use

learninglab.si.edu

Smithsonian Digitization138 million objects and specimens

Two million library volumes

153,000 cubic feet of archival material

Smithsonian Digitization138 million objects and specimens9% objects and specimens

Two million library volumes33% library volumes

153,000 cubic feet of archival material52% archival material

Smithsonian Digitization138 million objects and specimens9% objects and specimens12 million digitized objects & specimens

Two million library volumes33% library volumes660,000 digitized library volumes

153,000 cubic feet of archival material52% archival material 80,000 cubic feet of archival material

Learning Lab Today

1.41 million resources1.32 million images40,800 text-based resources11,500 video and audio files2,100 lesson plans and website

332 user/institutionally-generatedpublished collections

1,825 total collections

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First GradeMontpelier, VT

AP U.S. HistoryAlexandria, VA

High School EnglishLincoln, NE

Middle School Social StudiesGlenshaw, PA

Smithsonian Washington, DC

Smithsonian Washington, DC

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Slides:

Darren Milligan@darrenmilligan / [email protected]

Melissa Wadman@melwad / [email protected]

Brian Ausland@bausland / [email protected]

Ashley Naranjo@AshleyMNaranjo / [email protected]