Tuesday November 19th, 1:30pm-1:55pm @ Rangimarie 1 - Breakout Room

Raranga Matihiko | Weaving Digital Futures is a Museum based education programme that is funded by the New Zealand Ministry of Education. The programme delivers rich and engaging opportunities to learn of and with digital technologies to those with limited digital learning opportunities, while increasing access to national and local exhibitions and collections. Te Papa leads the contract and have partnered with Te Kōngahu Museum of Waitangi, Tamaki Paenga Hira Auckland War Memorial Museum, and MTG Museum in the Hawkes Bay to deliver this programme to schools and kura in these regions. Each class accesses a bespoke, in-depth learning programme over the course of a ten-week period. This session will outline the research that sits behind the pedagogical approach, highlighting the results which has evidenced: teachers and students using the museum as a rich context for deep learning, social impact and experiences improvement in student and teacher understandings of creating with digital technologies understanding of digital ways to take existing knowledge and using it to retell or create new knowledge examples of student learning with digital technologies within the museum context.

Tara Fagan - Project Director, Museum Of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa