Abstract
Currently, visiting museums is one activity that gaining its popularity from primary and secondary school students, which makes museum an important part of second classroom. However, this kind of educational activity is limited by several factors such as transportation, time and space, etc., which result in several defects such as limited visiting efficiency, lacks of evaluation for teaching achievements etc. To solve these problems, we put forward a countermeasure program of digital museums towards second classroom for primary and secondary school students. First, we analyzed the studies of second classroom based on the digital museums both in China and other countries. On the basis of such analysis, we took Zhejiang Education Technology Museum as a template to design and develop Zhejiang Education Technology Digital Museum. Then we used theory of pairing design to study the performance of the traditional museum education and the digital museum education respectively. Finally, we evaluated users’ experience of Zhejiang Education Technology Digital Museum by carrying out a questionnaire survey.
Highlights
Other than classroom learning, informal learning refers to the way of learning new knowledge at any time and any place
The objective is to get the same experience as visiting traditional museums, overcome the defects caused by time, transportation, distance, space and other factors, and provide convenience for carrying out second classroom in primary and secondary school based on museums
Comparing the students’ performance in traditional museum with the one in digital museum in second classroom samples, we discover that the average learning achievement based on digital museum is higher than the one based on traditional museum
Summary
Informal learning refers to the way of learning new knowledge at any time and any place. Visiting museum is one activity that is getting much popular from primary and secondary school students and becomes an important part of second classroom. How to provide a more efficient learning environment for primary and secondary school students based on museums is one urgent issue to be studied. [9] Based on the analysis above and funded by Education Technology Center of Zhejiang Province, we began the construction of Zhejiang Education Technology Digital Museum as second classroom for primary and secondary school. We apply it to second classroom study and evaluation
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