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Why should schools visit museums ?

Museums give children the opportunity to access knowledges differently than what they are used to in school. They increase their cultural capital, learn subject-specific content and skills and acquire critical thinking. Seeing the real world can even get them excited to go to school! But more often than not, school trips to museums are felt as a burden by kids, who suffers endless days of wandering through dusty exhibitions, passively listening about stuffs they don’t feel connected to or implicated in.

Gaming and interactive learning

Interactive learning overcomes this problem by delivering a mindful and engaging experience. In fact, it has been proven that kids remember up to 40% more informations by “saying and doing” rather by “seeing and hearing”.

Gaming is an excellent way to supply active learning. By including rules, definitive objectives, measurable goals and competition, it brings a sense of achievement, and since it is entertaining, children keep coming back to learn more. With gaming comes several skill developments: cognitive growth (solving problems, thinking creatively), digital literacy (communication, ethics) and coordination (spatial, fine motor). And, contrary to a common belief, gaming is not exclusive to the digital world and electronic devices. There are many types of gaming with dozens adapted to gaming with no equipment, and some examples may include: alternate reality games, role playing, simulations, strategy, puzzles, interactive fictions and social games. Actually, gaming is just making a creative use of its environment and whatever is available to play games!

Our solution

When it comes to implementing gaming into museums, a lot is still to be done, especially to fit for school trips. Teachers who wants to organize a school visit based on gaming will be restricted by the very limited amount of museums with gaming equipments, and the incapacity of a majority of them to suit a class of kids. The choice of a museum should not be based on whether it possesses gaming facilities, but rather on the teacher’s learning objectives, and the gaming part should be added on top of that.

Our idea with this project is to remove the burden of missing devices from museums and give teachers a solution to adapt gaming with a group of kids to any desired exhibition.

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Keys for understanding

Active Learning
The Benefits Of Field Trips
Why Should Schools Visit Museums?
38 Types of Games
Benefits of Educational Games in the Classroom
How Games Are Changing the Museum Experience
How can games in museums enhance visitor experience?

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