TABLET LAB AT THE MUSEUM

TABLET LAB AT THE MUSEUMDigital education for teens

BERGAMO AFRICAN MUSEUM AND VILLAGE (Italy) 1 st Report Sept 2014 – Apr 2016

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Flavio Pessina

Marcello Cenati

Digital Education – ASSUMPTIONS

• African curators scholars often disagree with the functions and identities of museum pieces

• Every museum must enhance the viewers comprehension

With digitalisation and the advance of mobile devices, can a museum host visitors’ experiences and perceptions?


Digital Education – THE PROJECTTHE MUSEUM’S GOAL

1. A new pedagogy through digitalisation

2. Repetition of the model at school

3. Low investment and running cost

4. No particular Application set


Digital Education – THE PROJECTBENEFITS TO VISITORS1. Allow them to discuss and share

their experiences and opinions

2. Promote cooperation

3. Support their personal production

of digital posts

4. Allow for discussion and reflection of

their experience after visit


Students work

- telling stories - making suppositions- sharing their findings- learning of different customs

through exploration and use of their digital skills


Digital Education – THE PROJECT

Digital Education – SETTING


1. 1 IWB for plenary sessions2. 20MB wifi network3. Kidoz software to limit and

control the available apps4. Nearpod software to share the

intro and the final presentation5. Google + a/o Google Keep

to collect posts on the IWB

Digital Education – TOOLS


16 Android Tablet with:

Camera Google Keep and Google + Google Images Research Online museum guide blog Short list of surfable websites Museum Youtube channel Qr Reader and Answergarden

Digital Education – CONTENTS 1/2TOPICS FOR K6-8 STUDENTS

- ART AND VALUES:

- ART AND POWER

- PERCEPTIONS AND REALITIES

- MALE AND FEMALE

DURATION: 60’-75’ PER WORKHSOP

STUDENTS: 20-45 PER SESSIONS

Mediterranean Europe and west Africa in the XIX century

Compare differences between opinions of curators and those of studentsGender education in Europe and south of the Sahara: values and duties

Today’s teens values in Africa and Europe face to past’s virtues expressed by the operas


Digital Education – CONTENTS 2/2TOPICS FOR K6-8 STUDENTS

- SYMBOLS

- NOTIONS

DURATION: 60’-75’ PER WORKHSOP

STUDENTS: 20-45 PER SESSIONS

Misunderstandings of signs in the works of art are similar to misapprehension of body gestures among different people

Comparison between our icons illustrating universal values and the african artists representations in their works of art

BERGAMO AFRICAN MUSEUM AND VILLAGE (Italy) 1 st Report Sept 2014 - Apr 2016

Digital Education – AN EXAMPLE 1/2


Digital Education – AN EXAMPLE 2/2


Digital Education – THE WORKSHOPS

COMMON FEATURES

• Students always work in couples or threes

• They always start from their own experience,

• We encourage their creative production

• No App at all, the museum staff must define tools and paths every time!

• Every workshop with different slides for the beginning and final plenary session

• Each virtual board can be mailed at school, to go on discussing and working on


Digital Education - DATASClasses StudentsTeachers Workshops

72

1.519

149

50


Digital Education - RESULTS

Easy

Interesting

Funny

Helpful

Cooperative style

1.0 1.5 2.0 2.5 3.0 3.5 4.0 4.5 5.0

4.0

4.1

3.7

3.6

4.5

OPINIONS ABOUT THE TABLAB


Teachers evaluations at the end of each session. Answers rate: 72/149 = 48%

31%

25%19%

6%6%

13%

TEACHERS APPRECIATIONS

Starting from experi-encies

Works examination

Multimedia info quest

Activity partly un-structured

Final plenary session debriefing

Art and everyday life links



Teachers evaluations at the end of each session. Answers rate: 72/148 = 48%


42%

5%9%

44%

OPINIONS ABOUT THE APPROACH

InterestingLaboriousCompellingExcitingFrustratingFascinating

Teachers evaluations at the end of each session. Answers rate: 72/148= 48%


Digital Education – FINDINGS

- Hey Dad, they give us tablets!


- High tech is cool,

but listening is still important - Students tell at a glance icons- Tweet seems to be the model

- The ideal man or woman are

mostly star media system

Digital Education – QUESTIONS 1/2

Cooperation or competition? Students are often struck by the lack of competition

they find hard to divide a task one another

Viewing, seeing, looking at: how about the other senses?


They are much more interested in looking at their fellows’results

rather than listening to some reflections about their posts

Digital Education – QUESTIONS 2/2

Personal tools?Someone has difficulty drawing

a picture or posting a note in

cooperation with a school fellow

Assimilation?Foreigners previous experiences

and their customs hardly ever

appear in their posts


ANY QUESTION?

GUIDAMUSEO.IT

Marcello Cenati

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Flavio Pessina

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