Could virtual museums be the end of textbooks?
One of the biggest challenges teachers face today is using technology to enhance student learning. A good way to do this is by digitalizing textbooks.
Virtual museums provide a rich collection of primary source materials, in the form oral, visual, and written information. The information is also accurate and detailed.
Using virtual museums in the classroom will make learning more hands on. Not only can pupils use virtual museums as a means of research but they can also design their own virtual museum using information they have gathered. This is an excellent idea for class projects and provides students with the opportunity to design and organize their own leaning.
I stumbled across a link that I felt reinforced the idea of virtual museums leading to the end of textbooks. The link leads to a presentation on the Discovery Channel website and provides not only an interesting account of how humans evolved (something all students learn at school) but more importantly it provides an up-to-date account of what is now believed to be the case. This is a huge advantage over textbooks as they can only provide information that was found to be accurate at the time of being published.
http://dsc.discovery.com/tv/ardipithecus/ardipithecus.html?campaign=dsc-px09-1-bbc006
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I wish they could! Text book are expensive, esp. in college. In high school we didn't have to pay for our books, but I don't recall ever really using them. I think if we had more hands on learning sessions in high school and in college (during long lecture classes) more students would be interested in learning and actually attend class and pay attention to the lecture.
ReplyDeleteEven Art History books are expensive and you cannot resize the photos in them.
ReplyDeleteThere are some definate advantages to the virtual museums
I could resize a number of the sites you posted.