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I have to admit that I feel the whole "learning goals and did you meet them" part of exhibition development to be a bit of a straightjacket. But I hope I have enough humility to realize that there is a lot I have to learn and that I welcome advice from anyone who can help me do that, evaluator, explainer, colleague, member of the public. I like to think that when lightning strikes and I have some awesome creative concept that I will just get it right, but my batting average is only so so. So I am all for any kind of input, paid, unpaid, expert, novice when we are working on a new experience. I am not all that enthralled with defining concrete learning goals, but that is more based on how I have learned in the past, by a kind of serendipitous accretion of experiences, than because of any profound intuition about how people learn. Others have different ways of learning, as I myself have from 30 years in museums and several years of teaching grad students. For some, having concrete learning goals and objectives is a helpful scaffold.
Left to my own devices, I will use my own intuitions. It isn't obvious to me that my intuitions are the best approach for visitors to have a great time and learn. So I try to listen to whomever I can.
eric
Eric Siegel
Director and Chief Content Officer
New York Hall of Science
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