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Title: LEARNING IN MUSEUMS


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LEARNING IN MUSEUMS
  • Add in your museum name/service

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Why Visit Museums ?
  • Learning in museums and galleries is uniquely
    holistic it develops skills, increases knowledge
    and offers experiences that give substance to
    abstract concepts. Learning in museums and
    galleries illuminates personal experience,
    promotes creativity and enables social learning.
  • (Campaign for Museum and Gallery Education)

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Why Visit Museums ?
  • Museums and galleries are full of potential for
    learning and can significantly enhance and
    support the learning process.
  • They offer a unique environment which creates
    inspirational opportunities for students.
  • A museums exhibitions, objects, works of art and
    maybe even the building itself provide a rich
    learning experience that goes beyond the
    classroom.

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Active Learning Experiences
  • Provides the opportunity to interact with the
    real thing.
  • Offers a range of differentiated activities to
    support students of all abilities.
  • Provides a change of environment, putting
    artefacts into context.
  • Greatly benefits students who learn best through
    hands-on activities.

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Making Learning Happen
  • How do we learn?

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Learning Styles
  • Learning styles are simply different approaches
    or ways of learning.
  • It's believed that most people favour some
    particular method of interacting with, taking in,
    and processing stimuli or information. The VAK
    theory of learning is one that is particularly
    relevant to museum learning.

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Different Learning Styles
  • Visual
  • Auditory
  • Kinaesthetic

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Visual
  • Visual - using your own images, imagining
    pictures in your mind.
  • Do you find yourself saying,
  • I see what you mean?
  • Do you find something to watch if you are bored?
  • Do you like presentations in colour and with
    illustrations?

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Auditory
  • Auditory - using sounds and words.
  • Do you find yourself saying,
  • I hear what you say?
  • Do you like listening but prefer to talk?
  • Do you hum or talk to yourself or others when you
    are bored?

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Kinaesthetic
  • Kinaesthetic - active learning, doing, touching,
    practising things.
  • Do you find yourself saying,
  • I feel that in conversation?
  • Do you speak with your hands and use gestures a
    lot?
  • Do you find reasons to move or play with
    something when you are bored?

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Preferred Learning Styles
  • Everyone has a preferred combination of learning
    styles.
  • Think of your own learning experiences, what
    activities do you think would suit you best?
  • The museum environment can offer activities that
    meet the needs of different learning styles.

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Multiple Intelligence Theory
  • A psychological and educational theory that
    suggests there are many different kinds of
    intelligence each relating to a different
    sphere of human life and activity.
  • It looks at many ways of perceiving and
    understanding the world, each being a type of
    "intelligence". These intelligences are a set of
    skills which can be nurtured and strengthened, or
    ignored and weakened.

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There are Many Different Types of Intelligences
  • Good learning is structured to accommodate as
    many of these as possible.
  • Museum learning can offer activities that meet
    the needs of many different types of
    intelligence.

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Types of Intelligence
  • 1. Linguistic
  • Reading, writing, crossword puzzles.
  • 2. Logical-Mathematical
  • Patterns, strategies, logic.
  • 3. Bodily-kinaesthetic
  • Craft, tactile experiences.
  • 4. Spatial
  • Jigsaw puzzles, drawing, construction.

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Types of Intelligence
  • 5. Musical
  • Opportunities to listen to music.
  • 6. Interpersonal
  • Opportunities to discuss and talk in
  • groups.
  • 7. Intrapersonal
  • Opportunities to talk about feelings.

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Thinking Skills and Museums
  • Learning environments should stimulate students
    to ask questions and think about the
    subjects/issues, thereby embedding any learning
    in a way that gives it personal meaning.

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Thinking Skills
  • Information processing
  • Reasoning
  • Creativity
  • Evaluation

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Promoting Creativity
  • Creative learning goes beyond creativity in arts
    subjects.
  • It can be about approaching a subject or issue
    from a new and innovative perspective which draws
    together ideas from a variety of sources.

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Promoting Creativity
  • Students might be encouraged to
  • create a PowerPoint/multimedia presentation
  • draft a tourist leaflet or poster for the
    location
  • produce a piece of dance/drama based on the
    museum experience
  • put together their own guide to the museum or
    gallery that they have visited
  • celebrate creative learning in shared school
    spaces.

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What do Museums/Galleries Offer?
  • Active learning sessions
  • Access to museum staff expertise can maximise the
    learning benefits of a visit.
  • Gain access to unique resources not available in
    exhibitions.
  • Museums may charge for sessions and provide a
    teachers pack and activity sheets.

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What do Museums/Galleries Offer?
  • Independent visits
  • A free option may be to lead the session
    yourself, although the museum may charge for
    entrance.
  • Some museums may offer free resources such as
  • tours, activity sheets and use of handling
    collections.

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Planning a Visit
  • Finding a museum
  • www.museums4schools.org.uk
  • www.24hourmuseum.org.uk
  • Pre-visit planning with museum and school
    staff.
  • Risk assessment a legal requirement.
  • On the day of the visit logistics.
  • Post visit build on outcomes of visit in wider
    scheme of work.

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Risk Assessments
  • Legal requirement for teachers
  • Published guidance DfES Health and Safety of
    Pupils on Educational Visits 1998.
  • Risk assessments are needed to ensure that
    students are not put into harmful or hazardous
    situations.
  • Museums can provide information to support
    teachers to complete their risk assessments.

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Learning from Objects
  • Learning from objects encourages the learner to
    use five senses to accumulate as much data as
    possible.
  • The multi-sensory aspects of museum learning mean
    that it suits different learning styles and
    accommodates well into multiple intelligence
    theory.

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Learning from Objects
  • Objects can provide a rich source of historical
    information as well as being a source of
    inspiration for students creativity and the
    production of original art work.
  • Objects give us a glimpse into lost worlds,
    peoples lives and whole communities/ societies.

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Why Use Objects?
  • MotivationThey stir curiosity - the intrinsic
    fascination of awe inspiring objects.
  • Active learningHands-on, immersive, experiential
    learning.

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Investigating an Object
  • How was it made?
  • What is it made from?
  • Pattern/colours?
  • Use?
  • Value?
  • Relationship to other objects?
  • Associated information?

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A Historical Investigation
  • Case study from museum

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Historical Interpretation
  • Case study from museum

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Using Works of Art
  • The most important thing you can
    do is to teach your students
    how to look at works of Art
    and to give them the
    confidence to express
    their opinions and
    ideas.

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A Plan of Action for Looking at Paintings
  • Simply ask the group to say what they can see.
  • What is the artist trying to tell us about?
  • How has the artist made his/her point?
  • Finally look at the artists name, date of the
    work and the media used.

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Types of Art Works
  • Looking at Portraits
  • Looking at Landscapes
  • Looking at Abstract Art
  • Looking at Sculpture
  • Case studies from galleries

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Learning from Science Exhibits
  • Science museums are rich specialist learning
    environments where students can come face to face
    with exhibits and specimens that inspire awe and
    wonder.
  • Science museums use their unique collections and
    inspiring exhibits in a range of ways to bring
    science to life and to create a wow factor to
    switch students on to science.

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Planning a Successful Science Visit
  • Teachers need to carefully consider the
    strategies they use to realise the full potential
    from a science museum visit.
  • Science museums often have very open-plan
    layouts.
  • Students can become easily distracted and only
    explore the exhibits in a superficial way.
  • Students do not learn science merely by
    interacting with exhibits.

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Using Science Resources
  • Case study from a museum.

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New Agendas
  • Personalised learning a way of raising standards
    and ensuring that every student realises his or
    her full potential.
  • The Extended schools agenda access to a variety
    of activities beyond the school day.
  • Vocational and hybrid GCSEs more flexible and
    learner centred approaches.

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Useful Websites
  • Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery
    www.bmag.org.uk
  • Coventry Transport Museum www.transport-museum.co
    m
  • Dudley Museum and Art Gallery www.dudley.gov.uk/m
    useums
  • English Heritage www.english-heritage.org.uk
  • Herbert Art Gallery and Museum
    www.theherbert.org
  • Heritage Education (Warwickshire County Council)
    www.warwickshire.gov.uk/heritageeducation
  • Ironbridge Gorge Museums www.ironbridge.org.uk
  • New Gallery Walsall www.artatwalsall.org.uk
  • RAF Museum Cosford www.rafmuseum.org.uk
  • RBSA www.rbsa.org.uk
  • Rugby Art Gallery and Museum www.rugby.gov.uk/sit
    e/scripts/documents.php?categoryID148

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Useful Websites
  • Stoke-on-Trent Museum Service www.stoke.gov.uk/mu
    seums
  • The Pen Room www.penroom.co.uk
  • Thinktank www.thinktank.ac
  • Worcestershire Museums http//worcestershire.whub
    .org.uk/home/wccindex/wcc-museum-index.htm
  • Wightwick Manor www.nationaltrust.org.uk/main/w-v
    h/w-visits/w-findaplace/w-wightwickmanor
  • Wolverhampton Arts and Museums
    www.wolverhamptonart.org.uk
  • Other useful websites include
  • museums4schools in the West Midlands
    www.museums4schools.org.uk
  • 24 hour Museum www.24hourmuseum.co.uk
  • The Campaign for Learning through Museums
    Galleries www.clmg.org.uk
  • Inspiring Learning for All www.inspiringlearningf
    orall.gov.uk
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