By: Darren Milligan, Acting Director, Smithsonian Office of Educational Technology The Smithsonian established the Smithsonian Office of Education in 1976 to serve public education by bringing Smithsonian collections and expertise into the nation's classrooms. It has published educational materials for more than 40 years and provided one access point to Smithsonian educational resources. In 2016, the Smithsonian Center for Learning and Digital Access (as the Office of Education wa...

By: Smithsonian Office of Educational Technology We’ve been hard at work building new features and fixes to enhance your experience using the Smithsonian Learning Lab, and we are excited to share our latest updates with you! Today, you’ll find a new feature designed to prevent users from losing collection changes: Edit alerts. You can find more information about this new alert and our other updates below.  Don’t forget – our Help Center is here to support you in using...

By: Smithsonian Office of Educational Technology We’re excited to share our newest tool: Canvas! Canvas resources are just as they sound: a blank space for you to express your own creativity and make your Learning Lab collections more personalized and aligned to the needs of your classroom. With Canvas, you can create unique combinations of images, text, lines, shapes, and templates to appear as a single resource in your and your students’ Learning Lab collections. And, Canvas...

By: Smithsonian Office of Educational Technology We’ve been hard at work building new features and fixes to enhance your experience using the Smithsonian Learning Lab, and we are excited to share our latest updates with you! Today, you’ll find a new type of resource that we hope will expand the ways that you use museums for learning: 3D Resources. You can find more information about this new resource type and our other updates below. Don’t forget – our Help Center ...

By: Laura Blanton, National Air and Space Museum and Sara Cardello, Smithsonian Libraries and Archives NEW! K–8 Activity GuideSmithsonian in collaboration with USA TODAY presentInnovation Across the Nation, A Smithsonian at-home activity guide We live in a world inspired and compelled by innovation; from the clothing we wear, to the shape of our mail trucks, and the science and exploration stories- fiction and nonfiction- that capture our imaginations. These stories of inn...