Presentation about our digital learning work at The British Museum's Samsung Digital Discovery Centre at the FIEC conference (http://bit.ly/Xk6Uxd) in Santiago de Compostela, Spain in November 2012. The conference was held at the stunning City of Culture, a complex of buildings nestled in the hills above the sacred city.

1. Learning in a blended world
Shelley Mannion @smannion
The British Museum
8 November 2012 #iifiec
Image Calafellvalo on Flickr

2. Sites of pilgrimage
Image Isidr☼ Cea on Flickr

3. Hajj

5. What is learning in the real world?
Image Al Jazeera English on Flickr

6. Spiritual encounters are
transformative
Image Elena Freire, Camino
Xacobeo Facebook page

8. Context
Personal experience
Social meaning
Engaging interaction
Museums can be transformative

9. The very nature of museums removes
context

10. Interpretive media restores context

11. Learning still depends on
investment

12. Technology can create investment
within limits

14. Personalisation

16. Access to personal data

19. Natural History Museum, London
Virtuous circle
Virtuous
circle

20. Traditional museum
learning favours
words
words
words

21. Linguistic
Logical-mathematical
Musical
Bodily-kinaesthetic
Spatial-visual
Interpersonal
Intrapersonal
Multiple intelligences
Howard Gardner, 1983

22. Kinaesthetic learning

25. What would you like
to see today?

26. You like treasure, so
you might like the
Hoxne Hoard

27. Participation

32. Co-construction
of meaning

34. Active learning for mobile devices
Frohberg et al 2009
Adapted by Doll 2012

35. Multimedia magic

36. Multimedia magic

38. Sutton Hoo

40. Talking Objects

46. Teaching versus
facilitation

47. Interaction
Interaction

49. Drawing

50. Doing and sharing

51. Variety of interactions

52. Stoning pillars
Touchscreen gestures

53. Heist
Multiscreen interaction

54. Image Openexhibits on Flickr

55. Cleaveland gallery one

56. AR
Augmented reality
Marker-based

57. Location-based

58. • V&A
Screen-based

59. Second story

60. Gesture

61. Kinect hacks

62. Crocker Art Museum
Living Mural

63. Fun and
games

64. Tate Trumps

66. What is the right level of
challenge?

67. The face game
at Gallery One

68. Gallery one game faces
The backwards face game

69. SFMOMA ArtGameLab
Erica Gangsei, MW 2012

71. Contextualisation

72. Hajj voices
Voices of Hajj

73. Live dinosaurs
ROM dinosaurs
Royal Ontario Museum

74. SFMOMA’s integrated offerings for
Barney exhibition
Integrated interpretation
From Peter Samis, MW2007

75. Flipside

76. Distractions
Distractions
• Can be superficial. Too excited.
Distractions
Distractions

77. Two-part structure
• Antidote is two part structure

78. • May cause frustration when sharing in groups.
Working in groups

79. Friendship groups
Own devices

80. Too much like worksheets
• May be too prescriptive.

81. • How to create open ended, exploratory
experiences.
Free exploration

82. Information overload
• Information overload.

83. • Boredom as productive.
Benefits of boredom
Genevieve Bell, TED talk

84. Virtual versus real
• Need blended experiences that do not create
tension between virtual and real.

85. Create dialogue

86. Future directions
• Museum learning as inherently cross-curricular.

87. Digital skills and cultural knowledge
• All our programmes combine ICT and cultural
learnings.

88. • Fundamentally balanced.
Balance

89. Sacred World
• Ghandi: Handicrafts improve learning and
memory.
The vision of Ranjit Makkuni

90. Practical things. How do the programmes run?
How to set up a centre?
Working with technology sponsors
Digital learning on a small budget
Partnerships and collaborations
Research and evaluation of digital learning
Questions