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Seth Purcell on modern science museums:
But now more than ever in history, kids need a break from the screens that all too many of them are sadly often plugged into by default, and connection to the real world instead.
These days most science outreach seems a pavlovian training to regard as boring anything that's not a game, dismiss learning as a burden if it takes effort, and reduce science to instagrammable media to scroll through while in line at the mall.
Just one room had interactive displays, which could be navigated by picking up one of a selection of chunky wooden cubes and putting it in a square depression next to the screen. Although this was still screen-based, the physical interaction was a nice touch. It wasn't explained either, which was fun.
https://www.blasket.ie/bailiuchan/
The lovely thing was that we went for a walk and just came across the Blasket Centre and wandered in.
A space for Bonfire maintainers and contributors to communicate
