Back in May when I was on expedition in the Philippines, one of the most helpful resources we brought with us was a set of our biodiversity videos created for the Khan Academy translated into the local Filipino / Tagalog language. Most Filipinos have some facility with the English language, which is a part of …
The “cooperative shouting game” called “Spaceteam” has been a part of the culture of my Digital Learning team for a couple of years now, ever since my friend Manu turned me on to it. If you have never played, you need to download the app to your phone or tablet, get 2-3 friends together immediately …
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To coincide with our new and amazing "Color of Life" exhibit, we have several neat videos on the science of color created by our viz studio. Check them all out! Monarch Colors Colorful Cephalopods Chameleon Color Change Creating a Colorful Exhibit
The Cal Academy's senior curator of anthropology Dr. Zeray Alemseged is not only one of the world's experts on human evolution, he's also great at media sound bites. Here he is in Ethiopia with President Obama showing the President the 3.2 million-year-old fossil "Lucy," a key ancestor to the human race. Zeray noted that all …
Teen Science Night at the California Academy of Sciences is BACK on Friday August 14! Teen Science Night is a free event open to all Bay Area youth aged 13-18 to come explore science through fun activities led by teens from a dozen different organizations, including Chabot Space and Science Center, the San Francisco Zoo, …
Barry Joseph of AMNH, Eve Gaus of the Field Museum and I have published episode two of Object-oriented, the podcast on digital learning at collections-based museums. In this episode we focus on a topic near and dear to my heart: games-based learning. While lots of other blogs, podcasts, and articles have thoroughly examined and deconstructed …
I didn't even realize there was a World Emoji Day. Apparently its on July 17? Anyway, this tweet from the @Calacademy account was particularly adorable. In honor of #WorldEmojiDay, visit us & we'll show you for-realz versions of ??????????????????? pic.twitter.com/KZtwj9O6ta — CA AcademyOfSciences (@calacademy) July 17, 2015
The field of digital learning professionals in science and natural history museums is a miniscule one. So when a new blog appears focusing on digital learning at a museum, it makes me very happy. My colleagues at the Field Museum of Chicago have just launched a new blog called Digital Field Notes focused on their …
“Mission Fishin” is a digital game created by a team of teens at the California Academy of Sciences last year to educate the public about how our scientists collect specimens in the field. The game focuses on how one of our scientists, Dr. David Catania, collects freshwater fish specimens. I know, sounds riveting, right? Well …