I am looking for teachers to take part in a small-scale qualitative research project on UK teachers’ experiences of using the Smithsonian Learning Lab, a digital interactive platform for discovering millions of authentic digital resources, creating content with online tools, and sharing with an international education community (https://learninglab.si.edu/). Teachers would receive guidance on using the Learning Lab, including an optional online training workshop on using the site’s features and some ideas for teaching strategies including Project Zero Thinking Routines. You would then create or copy/adapt a learning collection for your students and evaluate the experience (by completing a questionnaire and, if you have time, taking part in a phone/online interview). I hope that the project will be helpful for teachers looking for new digital resources in the current situation. Your feedback would be incredibly useful and valued as part of the Smithsonian’s ongoing evaluation of the platform for different audiences.

If you’d like to find out more, please e-mail me at gc236@student.le.ac.uk and I can send you more details. (More info on the research I’m involved with is here: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2267326. This research is the dissertation for the MSc part of this project).

Looking forward to hearing from you! You can watch a short video about the Learning Lab below to find out more: