1. The document discusses strategies for digital learning in museums, including new interaction styles, participatory learning, new programming models, and using space as a digital canvas. 2. It also outlines challenges of digital learning such as defining the educator's new role, addressing conflicts with other digital work and funding models, issues around institutional authority and copyright, managing expectations, and challenges to curatorial control. 3. The document argues that museums have unrealized potential in uniting the on-site and online experience for digital learning.

1. Strategies for
Digital Learning
Shelley Mannion
How technology changes The British Museum
@smannion #dish2011
and challenges
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museum education Alastair Fyfe

2. WHAT DIGITAL OFFERS

3. 1. New
interaction styles

4. 1. New interaction
styles
New kinds of activities

5. 1. New interaction
styles
Opportunities for kinaesthetic and mechanical learners

6. 1. New interaction
styles
OCGM: Objects, Containers, Gestures, Manipulations

7. 1. New interaction
styles
Boys

8. 1. New interaction
styles
New models of collaborative learning

9. 2. Participatory
learning
2

10. 2. Participatory
learning
Sense of ownership

11. 3. New
programming
models

12. 3. New
programming
models
Expose under-used areas of the collection

13. 3. New
programming
models
Training for future careers

14. 4. Space as canvas

15. 4. Space as canvas

16. WHAT DIGITAL CHALLENGES

17. 1. New interaction
styles
Role of the educator
must include project
management
Conflicts with other
digital work in the
organisation

18. 1. New interaction
styles
Most museum systems
designed for standard
“tours”
Current funding models
don’t support application
development

19. 2. Participatory
learning
Conflicts around
institutional authority
Permissions and
copyright

20. 3 New programming
models
Setting teachers’
expectations
Challenges to
curatorial control over
narratives

21. 4. Space as canvas
Who owns your
venue?
Do outside companies
understand your
audience/collection?
Collaboration versus
competition

22. Unrealised potential
Uniting the on-site and online experience