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What It Takes to Engage Teachers with Digital Museum Resources: Five Lessons Learned
What It Takes to Engage Teachers with Digital Museum Resources: Five Lessons Learned By: Michelle Knovic Smith, Associate Director, Smithsonian Center for Learning and Digital Access Wherever you are on the journey to digitize museum collections, there are questions to address regarding who will use these millions of digital assets, and how. Teachers and their students seem to be obvious audiences, but what does it really take to be accessible, relevant, and useful to th...
Beneath the Text: Analyzing Letters from Seattle’s Chinatown-International District
Beneath the Text: Analyzing Letters from Seattle’s Chinatown-International District By: Rahul Gupta, Education and Tours Director, Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience Teachers approach me in my work as Education Director at the Wing Luke Museum and ask repeatedly for resources they can use in their classrooms: resources that give students practice viewing and analyzing history through multiple perspectives. In our collection, we have a trove of...
Who Belongs?: Using Collections to Think about Immigration
Who Belongs?: Using Collections to Think about Immigration By: Laura Lamarre Anderson, Grade 4 Teacher, STEM Academy at the Rogers School in Lowell, MA I am immersed in work for my certification to become a Reading Specialist, fine tuning my skills in reaching struggling readers. At some point in every text, the authors and researchers stress the need to connect with student interests and to build on strengths to shore up weaknesses. With this in mind, I started pullin...
Step Inside a Student-Curated Gallery
Step Inside a Student-Curated Gallery By: Ashley Naranjo, Manager of Educator Engagement, Smithsonian Center for Learning and Digital Access The iconic America’s Presidents exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery is the nation's only complete collection of presidential portraits outside the White House. This video may help demonstrate the br...
The Domino Effect
The Domino Effect By: Ashley Naranjo, Manager of Educator Engagement, Smithsonian Center for Learning and Digital Access In 2017, I had the pleasure of connecting with Jean-Marie Galing after a webinar hosted by the National Art Education Association featuring the tools and classroom applications of the Smithsonian Learning Lab. As a result, Galing, an art resource teacher in Virginia's Fairfax County Public Schools (F...
