Author: Rooske Franse, NEMO Science Museum
Design: Rob de Jong, NEMO Science Museum
If you plan to embark on a long distance journey, you can choose to take care of only the practical matters – such as obtaining the necessary visas, vaccinations and currency - and to let yourself be surprised by whatever else comes your way. Alternatively, you may want to become well versed in what a country can offer beforehand. What’s the history of the land, what are the population’s peculiarities, what are the main ingredients of the local cuisine and where can untouched nature be found? A travel guide can be a good starting-point to acquire such knowledge, by offering you an overview of the possibilities.
When you create an interactive exhibition or set up an educational project, the processes involved can also be considered a journey. The journey’s destination is the exciting, seemingly difficult to master, and sometimes unexplored landscape of informal learning. This guide is written with this type of trip in mind. Besides the experiences and practical tips from travelers who have traversed the landscape, this guide helps you to access theoretical information on informal learning.
Author: Rooske Franse, NEMO Science Museum
Design: Rob de Jong, NEMO Science Museum
A beach ball that stays up in the air. Soap bubbles that are so big that you can stand inside them. Children running round, shouting “Come here, look at this!” A grandmother bending down to put her ear to a metal ring, while her grandchild, standing tens of metres away, whispers into an identical metal ring: “Can you hear me?” And despite the noise all around them, and the distance, they can hear each other! Entering NEMO you are swept up into a world that is teeming with sound, colour and movement.
Visitors vary in terms of pre-knowledge, interests and learning style. Thanks to the diversity of the subjects covered by NEMO, its varied activities and design approaches, its positive atmosphere and the layering of its exhibits, NEMO offers a rich environment in which every visitor can learn in their own way, according to their own needs, and with pleasure.
This English edition is a translation of the internal document ‘Leren in NEMO: een visie op rijke bezoekerservaring’, that has been shared with NEMO staff within different departments and collaborative partners.
This NEMO Science Museum publication was written by the NEMO Science Learning Centre, its expertise centre in the field of non-formal learning about science and technology.
It was developed together with Prof. dr. Maartje Raijmakers of the University of Amsterdam, who is linked to NEMO Science Museum as an endowed professor of cognitive developmental psychology.
Authors: Rooske Franse (NEMO), and Maartje Raijmakers (University of Amsterdam)
Photography: Hanne Nijhuis and DigiDaan
Design: Rob de Jong (NEMO)
Tinkering is een innovatieve methode, werkvorm en manier van denken en werken. Tinkering activiteiten zijn hands-on: deelnemers worden uitgenodigd om te spelen en maken met gereedschappen en inspirerende materialen. De activiteiten, materialen en manier van begeleiden leiden samen tot een boeiende leerervaring.
Tinkering activiteiten beslaan vaak meerdere vakken en vakgebieden waardoor deelnemers interdisciplinair werken met o.a. wetenschap, technologie, rekenen en beeldende vorming. Deelnemers zullen zich vragen stellen als ‘Ik vraag me af hoe dit werkt?’ of ‘Wat zou er gebeuren als ik dit doe?’ Tinkering is een laagdrempelige manier om leerlingen te enthousiasmeren voor wetenschap en techniek.
The Schools As Living Labs (SALL) project proposes a new framework based on open innovation methods for schools across Europe to approach their science education programmes in a new light. Our objective is to make STEM teaching more relevant, systemic, and inclusive and to do that for all of our students.
SALL adopts the concept of open schooling in science education where schools, become agents of community well-being by creating new partnerships with other local actors and addressing local issues relevant to them.
SALL proposes to transform schools into living labs. This open-innovation methodology puts people in charge of the innovation process. It involves different kinds of partners in a private-public-people partnership and integrates research and innovation processes in real-life communities and settings. This methodology has been widely tested and has proved to be capable of nurturing meaningful collaborations between actors with diverging interests but with common objectives. Together, they build new products, new services, new uses, etc. through a cycle that typically comprises: Co-creation, Exploration, Experimentation, Evaluation phases.
SALL brings together school communities, including teachers, students, and their families, research institutions, policy-makers, science engagement organisation and other non-formal learning and open innovation spaces. School communities will be engaged in intensive dialogue and mutual learning activities. They will address local issues linked to the food system in all its dimensions, a very topical challenge faced by humankind as well as a relevant topic for science education that is high in the European political agenda.
NEMO Kennislink addresses various themes that are developing scientifically and socially or are interesting to approach from different angles and disciplines. This collection collects articles on the theme 'Long may you live'.
"We are getting older on average. We show why this is happening and whether the limit can be pushed back even further. We also consider what that means - for your body, for you and for the world around you."
NEMO Kennislink volgt wetenschappers in hun zoektocht naar antwoorden op grote en kleine vragen en vertelt daarover op een toegankelijke manier. Want wetenschap geeft ons beter inzicht in wie we zijn en in de wereld en het universum waarin we leven. Met NEMO Kennislink snap je beter hoe het zit.
Of het nu gaat om de oorsprong van taal, nieuwe vormen van energie en materie of de werking van ons brein: wetenschap geeft inzicht in wie we zijn, de wereld en zelfs het universum om ons heen. Zo beïnvloeden wetenschap en technologie elke dag ons leven. Onderzoekers speuren naar antwoorden op grote vragen en oplossingen voor maatschappelijke uitdagingen. NEMO Kennislink doet verslag van deze grootste zoektocht.
De redacteuren van Kennislink zijn onafhankelijk en hebben een diverse wetenschappelijke achtergrond. Ze zitten bovenop het wetenschappelijke nieuws maar volgen ook ieder hun eigen dossiers. In coproducties belichten ze raakvlakken van verschillende wetenschapsvelden. Ze laten belangrijke nieuwe ontwikkelingen in de wetenschap zien en tonen de wetenschap achter de actualiteit. Zo gaan zij echt de diepte in en maken ze informatie toegankelijk voor een zo breed mogelijk publiek. Met als doel nieuwe kennis over de wereld en onszelf te ontsluiten voor iedereen. Daarom zeggen we: Met NEMO Kennislink snap je beter hoe het zit.
This collection contains research on museum education. The research is a collaboration of Nemo Science Museum and the University of Amsterdam.