Since 1864, R.R. No matter where you live, no matter how you learn, you can engage with the Smithsonian to pursue your own interests and discover new ones.Thank you. With new platforms and tools, you have easier access to nearly 3 million 2D and 3D digital items from our collections—with many more to come. I think it will be worth it. Everything you read about in IMPACT is made possible in part thanks to support from lifelong learners like you. We seek $5 million for our Smithsonian Learning Lab, which will create personalized learning experiences targeted to educators and students, and open to all. Now, innovations in technology have provided the means and impetus for creating personalized digital experiences to reach even larger audiences and have a greater impact.The center is developing a digital laboratory for educators, young people and families.

They spool the map forward in time to see what their future worlds might be.

The center develops models and methods for digital learning through extensive research and evaluation and provides 21st-century tools for creative use of Smithsonian digital resources. Sara Snyder is chief of external affairs and digital strategies at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and Renwick Gallery. These children are natural time travelers, in a way that we can barely understand. To understand the needs of teachers, students, and … This month the Smithsonian becomes Creative Commons Zero (CC0).

After beta testing with teachers, generous grants from the Grable Foundation and Carnegie Corporation funded testing of Learning Lab with social studies teachers in Pittsburgh. The center will train educators to use these new resources and tools, both online and in person.Gifts to the Smithsonian Campaign will strengthen the center’s capacity to connect to a larger audience through our innovative and engaging experiences.

A gift to the center will help us reach our goal. Where would you like to direct your gift? To you and me, it would be sensory overload; to them, it’s Thursday at the Smithsonian. Today we can capture a 3D digital facsimile of that fossil without too much trouble (the bigger the bone, the more trouble). Give a Gift. Today, I remind myself to go slow, and take the time to make sure that the work I do has as much lasting value as that of my predecessors at the museum. Continue
Keep up-to-date on: Digital versions make the real thing more valuable, not less, and we’re in the early stages of translating the power of context to the many audiences that visit the Smithsonian. As if in an art studio, students will use Smithsonian digital assets to create and share with others. Then, as now, children scamper loudly to the far corners of the museum’s halls. Students and families explore the Smithsonian through a digital workshop.Photo Lillian Maloney. For me, this is a foundational step in implementing the Smithsonian’s audacious goal to “reach 1 billion people a year with a digital-first strategy.”. Digital versions make the real thing more valuable, not less, and we’re in the early stages of translating the power of context to the many audiences that visit the Smithsonian. Access Smithsonian.

We will continually evaluate the Smithsonian Learning Lab to measure its impact and make improvements.

No other resource on the planet encompasses the same breadth of research, has the capacity to spark wonder at the heart of learning, or offers as many opportunities to amaze and delight through its treasures.

They write to the future, as we sometimes do, because they know what it means to be good ancestors. But, imagine the types of creative reuse that will begin to flower once most of the remaining barriers are removed. The internet has made it possible to share our amazing collections and engage in meaningful dialogue with researchers, students, art lovers, teachers and creators around the globe.
For many people around the world, such museums are geographically beyond their reach.

“The national outreach of Smithsonian education is immense; they reach every corner of the country through these teachers and their resources,” he says. As if in a science laboratory, students will examine and analyze our collections and share their findings. Multiply the effort to digitize a single specimen by many millions and you can begin to see how keeping track of every digital bit matters. For more than 40 years, it has published educational materials and provided one access point to Smithsonian educational resources.

Make a Tax-Deductible Gift to the Smithsonian Center for Learning and Digital Access. It also pulls from the work of Smithsonian staff entrusted to care for not just the objects in the collections but the data attached to them as well. Through a gift from the Grable Foundation, the Smithsonian Center for Learning and Digital Access is bringing the Smithsonian into Pittsburgh classrooms.

The Smithsonian Science Education Center (SSEC) is holding its first fully virtual, free leadership development event this summer, from July 28-30. This vision for the future isn’t far-fetched; it pulls from very real trends in technology, logical extensions of the devices in our lives.

Smithsonian Releases 2.8 Million Images Into Public Domain The launch of a new open access platform ushers in a new era of accessibility for the Institution The online lab also builds skills for school, future careers and lifelong learning.The Smithsonian inspires people to explore the universe through a robotic telescope, submit projects to a Smithsonian mentor for feedback, talk with a Smithsonian expert virtually or create art with Smithsonian images. Thank you, again, for your generosity.

This Smithsonian Open Access initiative is a game changer and sets a new standard for museums around the world by making millions of digital assets available for learning, discovery and creative reuse.

I think about the visitors to a future Smithsonian because I’m reminded, on a daily basis, that museums play the long game.

For 30 years, the center has published educational materials for millions of teachers and young people, delivered professional development, hosted public events and workshops and provided one access point to Smithsonian educational … Through a series of live and asynchronous meeting opportunities, individuals and teams will tackle the challenge of ensuring K-12 science education remains a critical component in their classrooms and communities during COVID-19 and beyond. That’s a lot. I love encountering an artist whose work inspires me to think about the world in new ways—one who raises powerful questions or ignites my imagination. About Us Programs Resources Op-Ed by Access Smithsonian Director, Beth Ziebarth "In reopening, we must expand — not retreat from — progress on accessibility" July 31, 2020. Want more stories about how the Smithsonian impacts your world? He is author of Spying on Whales: The Past, Present and Future of Earth’s Most Awesome Creatures.

At the end of their visit, they’re asked to contribute to a time capsule, to be opened in 2146 on the institution’s tricentennial.

I love encountering an artist whose work inspires me to think about the world in new ways—one who raises powerful questions. Crimilda Pontes: The Original Designer of the Smithsonian Sunburst, Smithsonian Open Access: Unlocking Our Treasures, Nero, History's Most Despised Emperor, Gets a Makeover.

Campaign gifts help engage and inspire learners of every age. Campaign gifts will allow us to reach a wider audience. The center is training middle school teachers to integrate the Smithsonian's online assets — videos, publications and digital images — into their teaching. They also can touch and hear everything that’s ever been sampled, published or observed about the real thing. Now anyone, including teachers and students, can explore what once was available only by visiting the Smithsonian. The Smithsonian Center for Learning and Digital Access connects learners through websites and professional development programs to the institution’s vast resources, empowering them to explore interests, collaborate and reach personal and educational goals.

A $1.4 million campaign gift from the Pearson Foundation supported the creation of Learning Lab, evaluation of teacher needs and related training for teachers across the United States.

Smithsonian Open Access Welcome to Smithsonian Open Access , where you can download, share, and reuse millions of the Smithsonian’s images—right now, without asking. For me, what's most inspiring is the ability to see those teacher-created collections and adapt them so that they fit my own students' needs and interests. Can Scientists Stop the Plague of the Spotted Lanternfly? This means we are opening the digital doors, making our content available under user-friendly copyright laws. Works such as Nam June Paik’s chaotic television assemblages and Alma Thomas’s colorful painted canvases are among my favorites in the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, where I have worked for the last five years.