Category Archives: Interviews

This is a collection of original interviews done for the site.

RiFF interview with me: Blending Digital Media, Badging, and Museum-Based Learning

Posted on June 3, 2013 by Barry

I am excited to be the feature interview this month on the Digital Media and Learning Research Hub’s RiFF Expert Interview Series. It is a great interview and captures what I am thinking about eight months into the job. Check … Continue reading →

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Using Museums to Research How Play Can Teach Science: An Interview With David E. Kanter, NYSCI

Posted on May 21, 2013 by Barry

David E. Kanter, Ph.D.,  directs SciPlay at the New York Hall of Science. I spoke with him recently about the research group he leads (at my family’s favorite science center) and how they are developing innovative digital tools to support … Continue reading →

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Using Museums to Research How Play Can Teach Science: An Interview With David E. Kanter, NYSCI

Posted on May 20, 2013 by Barry

David E. Kanter, Ph.D.,  directs SciPlay at the New York Hall of Science. I spoke with him recently about the research group he leads (at my family’s favorite science center) and how they are developing innovative digital tools to support … Continue reading →

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How 3D Printers Advance Museum-based Learning: Interview with MakerBot’s Founder, bre pettis, and Education lead, Lizabeth Arum

Posted on May 13, 2013 by Barry

How can 3D printers be used to advance informal science and museum-based learning? This is a question I have been exploring over the past few months (and will be addressing next week at MakerBot’s Lecture Series on May 21st – … Continue reading →

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Interview with SF Asian Art Museum on Digital Fabrication Scanathons

Posted on May 9, 2013 by Barry

Things are bubbling. “Scanathons” are happening more often than you might think. At the Field Museum in Chicago. In New York at the Met (and my AMNH as well). And in San Francisco, I just learned, at the Asian Art … Continue reading →

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How to Build a Data Visualization Lab: Interview with Mark SubbaRao, Adler Planetarium

Posted on April 1, 2013 by Barry

Last month when I was in Chicago I had the thrill of visiting the Space Visualization Laboratory Director at the Adler Planetarium (which I wrote about here). Visiting the lab, however, raised more questions than it answered. I am so … Continue reading →

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Webinar: “Democratic Futures: Mobilizing Voices, and Remixing Youth Participation”

Posted on March 7, 2013 by Barry

Today I had the pleasure of being invited back to participate in another Connected Learning webinar, led again by Craig Watkins, this time exploring the themes of civic engagement underlying next week’s Digital Media and Learning Conference in Chicago. As … Continue reading →

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Science simulations, mobile games, and the future of museum-based situated learning: Interview with Kevin Miklasz, Iridescent

Posted on March 4, 2013 by Barry

Recently, as I have been playing games on my iPhone that intentionally teach science, I wondered what else was out there. I reached out on the ASTC listserv and heard back from Kevin Miklasz, Director of Digital Curriculum at Iridescent … Continue reading →

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Interview with Larry Johnson on the Horizon Report 2012 Museum Edition

Posted on February 25, 2013 by Barry

For ten years the New Media Consortium (“an international not-for-profit consortium dedicated to the exploration and use of new media and new technologies”) prepares a handy guide to the role of digital media and learning. Recently they have begun to … Continue reading →

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Webinar: “Connected Learning As Pathway to Equity & Opportunity”

Posted on February 7, 2013 by Barry

Today I had the pleasure of participating as a respondant in a webinar led by Craig Watkins & Juliet Schor addressing the following question: How does connected learning combat the growing gap between the ‘haves’ and ‘have-nots’ in education, and … Continue reading →

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