Again, we are greeted by a docent we when get off the bus and enter the museum. This time though the docent speaks about the room we are about to enter. It was short and brief. She had the students enter, walk around, talk amongst peers for a little while before she brought them all together for a planned activity that was followed by a discussion. This continued throughout the museum with different activities in each room. The students were involved, the students were learning about art like I had in the past, but the difference was that this time they were active participants. They did not appear to be bored and they were doing the activities. Though hesitant at first. Postmodernism has challenged the role of the museum visitor in relation to the methods of interactivity and interpretation (Mayer, 2005). Interactivity is defined as the
Again, we are greeted by a docent we when get off the bus and enter the museum. This time though the docent speaks about the room we are about to enter. It was short and brief. She had the students enter, walk around, talk amongst peers for a little while before she brought them all together for a planned activity that was followed by a discussion. This continued throughout the museum with different activities in each room. The students were involved, the students were learning about art like I had in the past, but the difference was that this time they were active participants. They did not appear to be bored and they were doing the activities. Though hesitant at first. Postmodernism has challenged the role of the museum visitor in relation to the methods of interactivity and interpretation (Mayer, 2005). Interactivity is defined as the