Virtual museums have great advantages over textbooks - bringing vitality, color and motion to student exploration. We stand at a continental divide as one century and its learning technologies give way to the next. We can just begin to make out the silhouette of a different kind of school - one where students gather information, organize it, create meaning, reach insight, display their findings and then invite an global audience to share the experience. In the past, schooling has been too divorced from real life. The study of life through textbooks and teacher lectures was all too often a case of artificial intelligence and virtual reality.
Virtual museums offer a different kind of learning - one which is fresh and vibrant.
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