From science centre to the classroom

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From science centre to the classroom
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Science centre challenges

• Lots of action but little room for absorption
• Impatient target group
• No follow-up on experience
• How do we secure a both fun and learning
  experience?

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LearningLab possibilities

• LearningLab personalize and prolongs your
  experience in VILVITE.Visitors can collect data
  from all exhibits that generate a file picture,
  film,
• audio or data and review their experience in
  the classroom or at home.
• Thereby data from a visit can be integrated in
  the normal learning
• processes of the schools.
• All saved files are sent to a personal
  website enabling visitors to share their
  experience with family and friends. The website
  also challenges visitors to solve tasks related
  to their personal experience. This is fun.
• The personal website creates a strong
  relation with science centre target groups. It is
  a new communication channel between the science
  centre and the visitors that generates revisits.

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Data flow infrastructure
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Public experiences

• LOGGING ON
• The visitor buys a ticket containing an RFID
  chip.
• To store experiences he registers on the
• information point with password, email
• address and optional a picture of himself.
• He then activates an exhibit with the RFID
• ticket. Data from the experiment is saved
• on his personal profile on the LearningLab
  server.  
• At the information points he can view his
• results from the experience on his personal
• profile page.
• He can also visit www.vilvite.no to access
• his online personal profile at home or in the
• classroom, review his visit and continue
• working with the tasks from this exhibit site.

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Public experiences

• INFORMATION POINTS
• He access the information points by using his
  ticket.
• A navigation map of all the exhibits helps him
  to find information stored
• for each exhibit and learn more about the
  subject.
• There is basic information on the LearningLab
  about the exhibits and there are FAQs.
• Optional information can also be found for a
  deeper understanding of
• the technology and its applications with the
  additional use of animations
• or movie clips.
• To view the experience from the exhibits he has
  tried, he is
• asked to log on to his personal profile.
• Since 24. January 2008, the Vilvite Science
  centre has had 4703
• unique visits to the LearningLab personal
  profile webpage.

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Exhibit projects involving the LearningLab system.

• Sometimes further cultivation of the content in
  an exhibit is needed to
• achieve learning.
• The exhibits are planned and organized so they
  generate data that is
• used for further understanding, in a web-based
  learning situation in schools or at home
• Science Centers need new types of expertise
  compared to current
• resources in order to attract new target groups
  and achieve a higher
• degree of learning.
• Establishing collaborations with the school
  system is a necessity, such an approach will
  make it attractive for schools.

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Data flow infrastructure
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A CASECooperation between VILVITE, Expology and
the water energy supplier BKK

• The curriculum 8-10 grade
• Natural science
• Production of energy
• renewable and nonrenewable.
• The concepts Energy Work
• Mathematics
• Equations, formulas, functions,
• volume etc.

BKK Show what a water driven power plant is and
how it produces power. Make it an educational
tool for the school. 9-10 grade
the Power plant exhibit

• Expology
• Exhibition design
• Public communication
• Data structure design
• Interactivity design
• Web design

The Science Centre VILVITE Interactivity
design Communicating to all visitors Easy
operation Motivating / Fun No need for pupils to
focus on taking notes
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A CASECooperation between VILVITE, Expology and
the water energy supplier BKK

• The curriculum 8-10 grade
• Natural science
• Production of energy
• renewable and nonrenewable.
• The concepts Energy Work
• Mathematics
• Equations, formulas, functions,
• volume etc.

BKK Show what a water energy plant is and how
it converts energy. Make it an education tool for
the school. 9-10 grade
the Power plant exhibit

• Expology
• Exhibition design
• Public communication
• Data structure design
• Interactivity design
• Web design

The Science Centre VILVITE Interactivity
design Communicating to all visitors Easy
operation Motivating / Fun No need for pupils to
focus on taking notes
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SUMMARY

• This technology increases the possibility for
  using the didactic approach of Science Centers
  directly in the schools.
• Math and Science are linked up to practical
  experiences and become
• personal relevant, easier comprehensible and
  entertaining.
• We take part in the development of modern
  technology and its utility.
• If nothing else, at least its fun!
• For more information visit www.expology.no and
  www.vilvite.no