Category Archives: From My Work

These are posts that have to do with my day to day job at the American Museum of Natural History.

DECEMBER 2021 BJC NEWSLETTER: My Year in Review

Posted on December 29, 2021 by Barry

This fall I began to send out monthly newsletters about my work across a wide range of fields. If you would like to receive these (about my work, but there are also ones about my two upcoming books), please sign … Continue reading →

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Announcing development of new RAND racial equity policy games

Posted on December 22, 2021 by Barry

I can finally announce my new partnership with the Center to Advance Racial Equity Policy (CAREP) at the RAND Corporation to produce games about racial equity policy. Phew – it was hard keeping this one a secret! What is RAND, … Continue reading →

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Video: The Revolution Has Been Digitized: MicroRangers, Youth Programs, and a Toolkit for the Future of Museums

Posted on October 21, 2021 by Barry

Can teenagers co-design new digital experiences for museums? For six years at the American Museum of Natural History, we did just that. This week I was delighted to present how at the MuseumNext’s Digital Learning Summit. Named after an earlier … Continue reading →

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Invitation to be an early reader on my 2022 book on digital design in museums

Posted on October 17, 2021 by Barry

If you haven’t heard, I have a book coming out next year on digital design in museums (from the American Alliance of Museums with Rowman & Littlefield in August, 2022). Having recently completed my first draft, I am now looking … Continue reading →

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Where to catch me this week at MuseumNext and MCN

Posted on October 15, 2021 by Barry

You know what they say: when it rains, it pours. I haven’t been to a conference in months – last August’s Play Make Learn Conference and, before that, MuseWeb in April. Next week, however, I am set to attend two! … Continue reading →

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Curated List of Games for Civic Identity

Posted on July 14, 2021 by Barry

This month I had the pleasure of working with Andy Robertson, who founded and runs the amazing Family Video Game Database, to highlight a collection of video games that can develop a deep sense of civic identity. If you are … Continue reading →

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What happened when a museum asked itself What data is driving our decision making?

Posted on June 28, 2021 by Barry

Madlyn Larson has worked at the Natural History Museum of Utah leading Research Quest for over a decade. Research Quest leverages the Museum’s collections and their research for science learning in middle school classrooms. I began working with Madlyn last … Continue reading →

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The ONE Game to Play to Understand Your Teenage Gamer

Posted on June 7, 2021 by Barry

Perhaps nothing creates more anxiety for adults than imagining what their teens are up to when no one is watching. That’s why my ears perked up when I read this quote in a New York Times interview with Richard Tyler … Continue reading →

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New Research on Role of Games in Lives of Today’s Teens from Joan Ganz Cooney Center

Posted on May 24, 2021 by Barry

“We used to love playing Xbox all day. That used to be great. But now that it’s all we really do or have to do, they’re always like, ‘Oh, I’m so bored of Xbox. I just wanna do something else.’” … Continue reading →

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When Worlds Collide: Is Digital Design Denigrating or Saving Museums?

Posted on May 6, 2021 by Barry

Yesterday, I spent an hour with five African-American and Latinx boys from West Harlem. All gamers. Over Zoom, we chatted about the role games played in their lives, how it helps them to be who they want to be in … Continue reading →

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