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Digital Museum of Learning
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Our mission is to champion educators and increase the impact of their work. Explore the history and future of learning!
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🪼How do you preserve tiny creatures as fragile as jellyfish or sea slugs?

In the 1800s, scientists struggled - preserved specimens lost their color and form.

So Rudolph and Leopold Blaschka created lifelike glass models, capturing tiny marine life in extraordinary detail. 🐙
👩‍🏫 At the Digital Museum of Learning, we support educators with free digital learning resources so that children around the world can discover better ways to learn and thrive, regardless of where they live.
From Oct 25-27, as leaders meet at the World Bank / IMF, we’re reminded how vital free and accessible educational resources are.
📚 According to the UNESCO-World Bank’s latest Education Finance Watch report, lower-middle-income countries (LMICs) spend $309 per child on education per year, whereas high income countries spend about 28 times that amount.
It’s #BlackHistoryMonth in the United Kingdom – a great time to talk about racial equality and social justice in the classroom.

Join the Tarpley family on a journey to explore key moments in the African American community’s fight to access education.
🎯 Engage your students with these prompts:
❓ What differences do you notice between Reclus’s Perfect Globe and the real Earth?
❓ Which of Reclus’s quotes do you think are still relevant today?
❓ Which quotes have changed? Why might that be?
📝 Teaching Tip:
Explore the story “What is a Perfect Globe?” to help students reflect on their relationship with Planet Earth. Compare how we explore the world today with the journeys of explorers like Alexander von Humboldt and Élisée Reclus.
❓What does it take to educate children for the future?
“We must develop people who know how to learn. That’s the most important competency, underpinning a person’s ability and agility to adapt to fast-changing contexts of the 21st century.”
— Mmantsetsa Marope
“Knowing how to learn is key in the information age.”

🏫 In 2017, Mmantsetsa Marope, the leader of a global education initiative at UNESCO, warned that many children are still being educated for the past, not the future. She stressed that 21st-century competencies must be part of every curriculum.
🌍 Learn about the importance of conservation.

🕵️‍♀️ Play our interactive activity, which teaches children about birds and how to protect them.
Did you celebrate World Migratory Bird Day on October 11th?

🦅 Check out the beautiful birds featured in our story 'The Gould League of Bird Lovers of New South Wales'.
Through the lens of traditional clothing, children discover how culture, climate, and creativity shape what we wear - and how, no matter the outfit, play and friendship connect us all.
🌍 Wouldn’t it be boring if we were all the same?

👚 Clothing and cultural diversity is a great way to spark classroom conversations about difference, identity, and belonging.
✨ In the paintings of Florentine & Alexandre Lamarche-Ovize, every leaf, insect, and figure tells a story waiting to be discovered. What might you find if you looked a little longer?
Just like nature invites us to notice the changing leaves, “slow looking” at art helps us uncover hidden details, spark curiosity, and reconnect with the world around us.
🍂 As the pace of summer slows and autumn settles in, it’s the perfect time to pause and really look at our surroundings.