Canada’s History is excited to tell you about two of our upcoming webinars, designed especially for those of you who work in museums, archives, or other community heritage organizations. Archivist Amanda Hill will start things off on November 17, with her presentation “Breaking Barriers without Breaking the Bank” about engaging with an online audience. On [...]

Hi fellow SERG members! I found this very interesting article that I wanted to share. It is about museum education in the States, but many of the issues discussed are similar to what we are facing. “Insistent Questions in our Learning Age” by Beverly Sheppard. Changes in the content and structure of museum/school programs reveal [...]

I will be speaking about my experience at Harvard’s Project Zero at next week’s Open House. If you want a sneak peek check out my blog posts at www.cantos.ca/blog

This three-day conference, to be held November 4-6 in Atlanta, Georgia, will focus on teaching and learning in schools and in environments other than schools such as online forums, museums, and other arts venues.  In collaboration with the Woodruff Arts Center, the Museum of Design Atlanta and the Atlanta International School, the conference will feature [...]

SERG PD Session with Neil Stephenson: Education & Technology When combined with good instructional design, emerging technologies and their accompanying “participatory cultures” provide great promise in creating engaging and authentic learning experiences for our students. Many of the current theories around learning and technology speak of the potential of interest or passion based learning cultures, [...]