Tuesday night wrapped up a year-long program dedicated to solving education problems and testing new media practices. Our Spring Education Innovators showcased their work to museum professionals, school teachers and technology specialists. It was a night of conversation, exploration and idea-sharing.
Innovator Susan shares her practice on making and sharing personal connections to museum objects through Pinterest and other tools.
You may be a little fuzzy on what an Education Innovator actually does, so here is a little background on their working process:
First, the Innovators were grouped together based on education interests. As a team, they identified a big question in education they wanted to explore. The three big questions from the Spring group were:
1. How do we intrigue and continue to connect with audiences on a personal level?
2. How can museums embrace people from under-represented populations?
and
3. How do you connect audiences and objects?
Within their groups, each Innovator focused on one way to solve the problem. Through this process you can see not only how various technology tools can solve the same problem, also how the same tool can be a solution to many different problems.
Over the course of the semester, the Innovators developed practices solving their big question, explored different technology tools and tested with target audiences. What you see here is the product of multiple tests, but it is not the end. Really this is just the beginning. Many of our Innovators are working museum professionals and will continue to refine their practices as part of their jobs.
Check out the Fall practices in our Living Archive. The Spring practices will be there soon! Who knows, you may be inspired to take one of the practices and test it in your museum or classroom.
