By Cath on 25 October, 2012
Introducing… The Museum Game – a video introduction, curriculum links, and a booking form :) Read more >
Posted in Be involved, Program, The Museum Game | Tagged children, critical thinking, culture, engagement, English, exhibitions, games, history, interactive, photographs
By Cath on 30 May, 2012
Presenting… Tricia Meier, teacher of a Year 5/6 class at Curtin Primary School, talking about her and her class’ experience of playing Sembl at the Museum. Read more >
Posted in Program, The Museum Game | Tagged Arts, children, competition, critical thinking, engagement, English, exhibitions, games, history, inclusion, interactive, resonance, teaching, technology
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By Cath on 2 December, 2011
Cath shares an overview of the Museum’s forthcoming real-time multiplayer iPad game, and an update on work-in-progress. First presented in person to the Apple University Consortium conference Create World 2011, it is available here as a PDF. Read more >
Posted in Professional learning, The Museum Game | Tagged critical thinking, difference, engagement, games, technology
By Jess on 13 June, 2011
History detectives have been bustling through our doors, uncovering stories and ‘reading’ sources in our program Not Just Ned: Irish Evidence. Read more >
Posted in Exhibition, Program | Tagged critical thinking, emotional engagement, storytelling, teaching
By Susannah on 11 May, 2011
How do museums represent history through their displays? How do museum educators help large groups of students who want to explore this question? Susannah reports on a recent visit by 170 year 7 students. Read more >
Posted in Exhibition, Objects, Program | Tagged critical thinking, engagement, meta, museology, teaching
By Ange on 28 February, 2011
How do you make history dynamic and engaging when the students are 400 kilometres away from you? Last week we had a video conference with 16 extremely switched on Yr 12 Extension History students from NSW who wanted to link up and explore with us ‘the role of national museums in constructing and representing history’. [...] Read more >
Posted in Program | Tagged critical thinking, history, inclusion, museology, technology, video conference
By Jess on 15 February, 2011
You may think January is a relaxing time in the Education section, enjoying the quiet lull before the tide of visiting school groups wash through our doors. Well, we have been everything but relaxing as we prepare for the Museum’s upcoming exhibition Not just Ned: a true history of the Irish in Australia, which opens on 17 March. [...] Read more >
Posted in Exhibition | Tagged critical thinking, programs, sources, teaching, veracity
By Ange on 21 October, 2010
We had some senior students in yesterday exploring veracity, omission and bias in primary sources, and ended up having an interesting discussion about the perception people have of reliability in relation to visual texts. Read more >
Posted in Inspiration, Objects | Tagged art, critical thinking, gold, internment, photographs, real, veracity
By Cath on 17 August, 2010
As we know, critical thinking is a vital set of skills for us all in the 21st century. But what exactly is it and how can we teach and learn it? Here’s a resource that looks useful (from Microsoft and the International Society for Technology in Education) – called Critical thinking in the classroom. Read more >
Posted in Classroom resources | Tagged critical thinking
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