Journal 2

Museums in the Classroom

Reissman, Rose. (February 2009). “Museums in the Classroom”. Learning and Leading with Technology, Vol 36, Issue 5, Retrieved February 20, from http://www.learningandleading-digital.com/learning_leading/200902/

"Museums in the Classroom" is an interactive article that allows the reader to take a virtual field trip to different museums across the country. The article also suggested web sites that could help the student design their own cyber museum. The article also had a link to a site that could help inexperienced teachers to use museums as a tool in their classroom.

How can a teacher use online museums as a resource in the classroom?

Online museums are great to go along with certain lessons that have primary resources that can be viewed right away. It's like taking a field trip without having to leave their class. Students can visit the natural history museum online, or a dinosaur exhibit or even a Holocaust museum and the teacher should integrate these things into the lesson.

Will using online museums help build a students skills using technology?

Using cyber museums would meet the NETS standards for students and could help students to become more comfortable navigating around a web site. Not only would the student be enhancing their web based skills, they would also be doing research on whatever topic they are visiting in the online museum.