• Guess Who Endorsed You! And Why Should You Care?

    About two months ago I started to get emails with the subject line “so-and-so has endorsed you,” originating from LinkedIn “on behalf of” the person doing the endorsing. At first I thought it was some kind of scam/spam. It’s legit, though, …
  • Can Early Learning in Museums Matter?

    Today’s guest post is by Colin Robertson, Charles N. Mathewson Curator of Education at the Nevada Museum of Art. I fell in love with NMA when I was in Reno last year for both personal and professional reasons. Personal, because it fuses …
  • The (Authentically Fictional) Future of Education

    Today’s guest post is by Ken Eklund, Writerguy, freelance game and experience designer. Ken creates “what if?” games and experiments, usually for museums, public media, or foundations. He works in what he calls “authentic fiction.” Ken’s …
  • Catching up with: Jane McGonigal, 2008 CFM Lecturer

    This the first in a series of updates on various interesting folk you have been introduced to through CFM lectures or our the “artists interpreting the future of museums” installations at the AAM annual meeting.  The fabulous …
  • Updates to CFM’s 2012 Trends to Watch

    Our first annual summary of Dispatches from the Future of Museums—TrendsWatch 2012: Museums and the Pulse of the Future—is getting a lot of attention and commentary, which is great. But as soon as Phil Katz (my co-author) and I sent it to …
  • Unschooling, Museums & Learning Models for this Century

    One trend highlighted in TrendsWatch 2012 is America’s jittering progress towards a new educational era. I’ve been exploring a number of alternate futures for our learning landscape, in this blog and in the article “The Future of …
  • A New Educational Era

    As formal learning methods are cast in doubt, the learning landscape is reinvented. We see signs that the U.S. is nearing the end of an era in formal learning characterized by teachers, physical classrooms, age-cohorts and a core …
  • Can Museums Step Up?

    Today’s guest post is by Jesse Moyer, manager of organizational learning and innovation at KnowledgeWorks. KnowledgeWorks is dedicated to “transforming education in the U.S. from a world of schooling to a world of learning.” As a nonprofit …
  • Improving Museum-School Partnerships

    This article originally appeared in the September/October 2011issue of Museum magazine, a benefit of AAM membership. It is the start of another school year, and museums are partnering with schools to complement curricular goals and to …

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