“There are many things that you can learn by doing it yourself and taking it beyond the limits in which it works, and you cannot learn just by watching something the way it’s supposed to.”
In 1969, particle physicist Frank Oppenheimer (who shares his 100th birthday today with celebrated chef Julia Child’s centennial) opened the Exploratorium in San Francisco, the first American museum to use interactive science exhibits. It was an effort to counter the “terribly passive education” of the classroom and marked the dawn of both interactive science education, engaging artists in fostering science literacy using new technology.
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