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The Truth about Bilingual Interpretation: Guest Post by Steve Yalowitz

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I recently read the BERI report on bilingual labels in museums and was blown away by its findings. in Applied Social Psychology and has evaluated and researched informal learning experiences in museums and other visitor institutions for over 20 years. is a controversial topic, and the same is true in museums.

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Community Science Workshops and Shared Authorship of Space: Interview with Emilyn Green

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There are lots of great science museum resources, but not where these kids can walk after school. We received two rounds of NSF funding in the 1990s to expand. We received NSF funding for three years and then it cut off. Any big museum has barriers and limitations to full community ownership. Really interesting.

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Scratch: An Educational, Multi-Generational Online Community that Works

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In this way, like on YouTube, my actions as a viewer still affect the creator community, because creators are aware of the number of views on their projects. I'm still a "passive consumer" in the eyes of ScratchR, but my actions are tracked every time I view a Scratch project (as are spectators').