The year two-thousand and fifteen was a HUGE one for the Digital Learning program at the California Academy of Sciences. We’ve had a lot of changes, pivots, sad goodbyes, and successes over the past twelve months that are important to acknowledge. Farewell, Christine / Welcome, Jeff! Over the summer, we bid a fond farewell to …
Check out this neat article by Jessica Decker on iNaturalist, a mobile app that is empowering regular folks to make nature observations that help science. To date more than 1 million observations have been made using iNaturalist! One unanticipated benefit has been that the app has been creating communities of citizen scientists. According to Alison Young, science …
On Saturday, we held the end-of-the-semester showcase for our Digital Learning TechTeen program. Creating these “stand and deliver” moments for our teens is one the best parts of my job. Youth showcases are a great way to see what your students are getting out of your program, in their own words. It is a way for all the …
See Frosty and Holiday, two actual reindeer at the California Academy of Sciences through the month of December.
Okay, it took awhile to get out episode three of our podcast "Object Oriented," but we are pretty excited about this one. In this episode, Eve, Barry and tackle one of the most exciting new trends in museums and other learning institutions: the Maker Movement. I begin with the basic but complicated question of whether …
Watch this beautifully shot profile of entomologist Brian Fisher. A researcher at the California Academy of Sciences, Brian shares what he loves about his work in the field and studying ants in particular. "You can't see much when you see them on the ground. But put them under a microscope and they just dazzle you …