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InterActivity 2011
InterActivity 2011 Theme Statement Innovation is Child's Play "Success is based not only on what you know
or how much you know, but on your ability to think and act creatively." In the online communities, social networks, and Web 2.0 and 3.0 that currently dominate our 21st Century society, children live beyond their geographic boarders. No longer is the routine accepted; everything is customized, including education. The digital services now literally at our fingertips are our children's power tools, utilized through play, free-choice learning, and exploration to build abilities and share talents. They exist in a worldwide community that no longer embraces knowledge or skill sets as an end game, but as tools to solve problems and meet needs by innovating new products and services. The visitor-centered, customized learning opportunities needed by this new generation of learners are already embraced by Children's Museums. Our institutions are innovators of free-choice learning opportunities that focus on building children's 21st Century skills through play, exploration, and discovery. We are the inventors and tinkerers who develop opportunities that inspire children's imaginations. We are the improvisers who encourage knowledge acquisition and application. And we are the collaborators who help construct social opportunities and generate the multi-dimensional literacies - mathematical, visual, scientific, cultural and beyond -- that are the foundational architecture for continuous, life-long learning. The 21st Century environment will require
children to develop key learning and innovation skills. By developing
sessions around utilizing skills like effective reasoning, systematic
thinking, creative collaborations, implementing innovation, and
multi-disciplinary application in our exhibits, programming, outreach,
and professional development we further ourselves as individuals
and as a community. We become institutions that prepare our children
for living, working and thriving in the 21st Century. InterActivity 2011 Program Committee
Invitation to InterActivity 2011
Children's Museum of Houston Interactivity 2011 from Children's Museum of Houston on Vimeo.
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