05 Panel 2: Education - Smithsonian Digitization Conference 2019 Day 1

Panel Two: Education
Moderator - Stephanie Norby, Director, Smithsonian Center for Learning and Digital Access
Panelists - Allison Fritts–Penniman, Postdoctoral Fellow at the California Academy of Sciences
Stuart Richardson, Undergraduate student, University of Utah
Ed Summers, Research Faculty, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities
Sean Wybrant, Career and Technical Education teacher at William J. Palmer High School, Colorado; 2017 Colorado Teacher of the Year

About the 2019 Smithsonian Digitization Conference - Engagement!

The Smithsonian’s new five-year strategic plan “Smithsonian 2022: Greater Reach, Greater Relevance, Profound Impact” sets an ambitious goal of reaching one billion people a year with a digital first strategy. It calls for the creation of new digital platforms for scholars, educators, and the general public to better access Smithsonian collections, research, and education resources - the increase and diffusion of knowledge in the 21st century. At the 2019 Digitization Conference we will explore what meaningful engagement with those one billion people might look like. We’ll be exploring:

• What constitutes meaningful engagement?
• How can we become better at enabling it?
• What areas offer the most opportunities for engagement? The best opportunities?
• How do we measure engagement?
• What outcomes do we want? What outcomes do our audiences want?

These are the key questions we will explore in the 2019 Digitization Conference. Sponsored by the Smithsonian’s Digitization Program Office, this three-day event will explore how we can use digitized collections to:

• Spur creativity, innovation, and positive change in some area of human endeavor;
• Explore ways cultural institutions can maximize engagement with their digitized collections; and
• Investigate ways museums, archives and libraries can measure, improve and expand engagement that takes place around their digitized collections.

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