Samsung Electronics and The British Museum right this moment introduced the reopening of the award-winning Samsung Digital Discovery Centre (SDDC). Following a major improve to the Centre, there may also be an formidable new digital studying program obtainable to colleges throughout the UK.
The Virtual Visits program will allow faculties which can be unable to go to the Museum, to nonetheless expertise the British Museum assortment and entry to employees through a studying session broadcast straight into their classroom. Following profitable pilots, 35,000 locations over the subsequent 5 years can be obtainable for pupils from throughout England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland to participate and change into digital guests.
Virtual Visits have been created with the curriculum wants of colleges in thoughts and is designed across the realities of classroom know-how. Sessions are provided on prehistory Britain, Roman Britain and the Indus Valley, and new classes on historical Egypt and historical Greece are in growth. Each class can have the session tailor-made to their wants and pupils can get pleasure from direct interplay with British Museum employees, in addition to high-resolution digital property comparable to 3D digital objects being shared with college students.
Samsung and the British Museum may also start to develop an revolutionary and thrilling new strand of programming for youngsters, which younger individuals themselves will assist form. By working straight with youngsters, it can assist develop high quality programming that absolutely understands and meets their numerous wants, in addition to improve their expertise of the museum’s assortment via Samsung know-how.
The SDDC gives a state-of-the-art technological hub for youngsters and younger individuals to study and work together with the British Museum’s assortment via Samsung Technology. Ahead of the refit, the SDDC welcomed its highest ever variety of guests, with 25,000 faculty kids and households utilizing the Centre in 2018/19. Since it opened, 150,000 individuals have visited the area to participate in all kinds of actions comparable to workshops, household drop-ins, and facilitated faculty visits. This main refit revealed right this moment sees enhancements to the person expertise to cater to the rising variety of guests, in addition to a full improve within the Samsung know-how obtainable. This will embrace the Samsung Flip, E-boards and the newest vary of Galaxy Smartphones, tablets and smartwatches.
Over the previous 10 years, the SDDC has supplied the most important program of digital studying actions in any UK museum. It continues to exhibit the best ranges of viewers satisfaction, with 95% of households surveyed in 2017–18 stating they discovered the classes ‘good’ or ‘very good’, and that 96% of academics mentioned they’d suggest the SDDC to a colleague and would convey a pupil group to the SDDC once more. Thanks to Samsung’s help, experience and know-how, the SDDC faculties and household applications have reworked the Museum’s digital studying provision right into a world-class, sector-leading and award-winning program.
Francis Chun, President & CEO of Samsung Electronics UK & Ireland says: “At Samsung, beneath our international Corporate Citizenship imaginative and prescient of Enabling People and supporting training for future generations, we’re dedicated to empowering the subsequent era of innovators to find and unlocking their full potential. Our collaboration with the British Museum for the previous ten years has allowed us to consistently trial new applied sciences that interact kids and younger individuals in revolutionary methods to not solely assist them study classes in historical past, however allow them to higher perceive the current and put together for the longer term. By extending this long-standing partnership for an extra 5 years to 2024, we stand beside the British Museum as we collectively navigate the methods by which rising applied sciences can additional improve the best way we be taught.”
Hartwig Fischer, Director of the British Museum, says:…
