By: Hannah Griffith, Communications Intern, Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center As an educator, how many times have you seen a new, innovative teaching resource and thought to yourself, “I wish we had that when I was a kid!” The new Smithsonian Learning Lab collection, Chickaloonies: Intergenerational Creativity and Learning through Indigenous Comic Art, is exactly that kind of resource. This intersectional teaching tool engages students in creating comic art supported by visual...

By: Smithsonian Office of Educational Technology We’ve been hard at work building new features and fixes to enhance your experience using the Smithsonian Learning Lab, and we are excited to share our latest updates with you! Today, you’ll find a few new features and improvements to support Lab discoverability and use: Alt text, collection keywords, a new Copy collection button, a hotspot improvement, and a new search view. You can find more information about these features and...

By: Ashleigh Coren and Chanelle Pickens, Smithsonian American Women’s History Initiative NEW! Lifelong Learning Activity Guide Smithsonian in collaboration with the USA TODAY Network present We Built This: How Women Innovators Shaped the World “We are only beginning; so do not try to put us down, but help us to climb higher.” - Dr. Susan La Flesche Picotte (Omaha) There is little doubt that the contributions of women and girls play an important role in creativity ...

By: Darren Milligan, Acting Director, Smithsonian Office of Educational Technology The Smithsonian established the Smithsonian Office of Education in 1976 to serve public education by bringing Smithsonian collections and expertise into the nation's classrooms. It has published educational materials for more than 40 years and provided one access point to Smithsonian educational resources. In 2016, the Smithsonian Center for Learning and Digital Access (as the Office of Education wa...

By: Smithsonian Office of Educational Technology We’ve been hard at work building new features and fixes to enhance your experience using the Smithsonian Learning Lab, and we are excited to share our latest updates with you! Today, you’ll find a new feature designed to prevent users from losing collection changes: Edit alerts. You can find more information about this new alert and our other updates below.  Don’t forget – our Help Center is here to support you in using...