nick wintherbotham, learning across frontiers
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Crossing the borders
With Nick WinterbothamHorsens, March 2013
Danish culture in the UK
• Borgen• Forbrydelsen• Carlsberg• Bacon• B&O• Sensible politics• The DNA of more than half of the UK population
And yet NOT• Dinner for One
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Crossing frontiers
.. and across the frontiers of darknessThere will always be safe passage for the smugglers of light..
Proverb
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Crossing frontiers
We shall not cease from explorationAnd the end of all our exploringWill be to arrive where we startedAnd know the place for the first time.
T S Eliot
Hands-on history
8pivotal experiences
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Crossing frontiers
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Crossing frontiers
Hunting in packs?
Hands-on history
..and anyway what happens to gallery-based knowledge?
..and anyway what happens to gallery-based knowledge?
FACTS
The memory is challenged, but the attention is captured
FACTS
..and attention leads to engagement, but..
FACTS
..and so we move from the cognitive domain (knowledge)..
.. to the affective domain (feelings)
Where we’ll always remember the first time we met Mona Lisa
And we might even remember how we felt about her
.. and we might pick up our pencils again
.. Or take up body-building..
.. One thing’s certain, we will have shifted our perspective!
Probably forever..
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Crossing frontiers?
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Crossing frontiers?
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Genocide Museum, Yerevan
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The Nail Puzzle challenge..
.. And how we learn
We hold these things to be self-evident
1. Our heritage is not about things it is about people2. Everyone has a right to know about and be at ease with heritage3. Heritage embraces the past and present of all cultures4. Heritage is essential as the cradle of everyone’s tomorrow5. Heritage encompasses all literature, science, technology, environments and arts
We hold these things to be self-evident
6. The multiple narratives of heritage deserve respect7. Learning is an entitled journey; not a destination8. Heritage learning is an entitlement for everyone9. The development of heritage learning skills and techniques must be a perpetual excellence.10. Learning is not simply a justification for cultural spending, it is the ultimate justification for cultural spending.
The Nail Puzzle challenge..• Mission• Resilience • Experience• Team-working• Digital cognition• Anxiety management• Flow• Pay-off
Time for some audience research
Hands up all those that can remember your first English lesson?
..And now your first visit to a museum?
..And now your first visit to a Planetarium?
“What they need to know is...”
What they need to know is...
What they need to know is...
What they need to know is...
What they need to know is...
What they need to know is… they and their views matter
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Community ownership through co-creation in Birmingham
Expertise in inclusion
Building on established community networks
Delivering initiatives driven by the community
Getting more and more local people involved
“None of us is as smart as all of us”
And what we discovered by this simple expedient..
Satchel Paige
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“A cure for cancer (my Nan died of it) and a way of slimming that doesn’t involve starving myself..”
What should medical scientists work on next?
Girl, 15, Birmingham
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Reaching out in Halifax
The Eureka! Bakoo spirit
Does it use all our senses?
VisualAuditoryKinestheticOlfactoryGustatory
The world’s best museum script..?
Theatre in education
Grandad
Video storiesand drastic surgery
Juxtapositionand images
Interpreting the invisible
Tell it in sounds
Saying it in images.. And quantity
Say it in suitcases
The sky as artand animals that read!
Hands-on history
Hands-on discovery
Learning environments
Family learning
The lure of storage
NRM & MMSI
National Railway Museum Public Services team
Cultivate competence – with a sense of humour
Fun ..
..the oxygen of learning
Glæde er den bedste fødselshjælper for læring
..and the visitor’s take will give us a learning opportunity..
The evolution of writing
Ever since I was a child I have loved writing.
I went to a rather strict school where great
emphasis was placed on neat handwriting.
At the age of six, we were given a slate and
a slate pencil. On this slate endless letters
andnumbers were practised and wiped off.
..and the visitor’s take will give us a learning opportunity..
Our motto should be..
“If you think education is expensive, try ignorance”
Derek Bok
Tell the truth?
Richard Feynman
"If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics".
And in case you missed it…
The Aspiration
To be :• Highly relevant• Fun• Accessible• Well marketed• High performing• Learning- and curriculum-friendlyand• To create narrative through dialogue
‘9-11’ = an outrageLockerbie = a disasterAberfan = a tragic eventOmaha Beach = a hard-fought victoryGallipoli = a great movieTitanic = a romantic scriptBattle of Waterloo = a colourful spectacleBattle of Marston Moor = a jolly good weekend’s fun for the Civil War Society
The Quaintification principle
Would Mo Farah have come to a racist and exclusive Britain?
Why it’s important
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance
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www.nickwinterbotham.com
Thank you
The voice for heritage learning