The document proposes a "Virtual Archaeo-heritage Exploratorium" which is a model designed for school students to learn about digital archaeology. The exploratorium aims to reconnect students to their cultural heritage through interactive tools that allow exploration of artifacts, sites, and festivals in a virtual environment. It seeks to make history education more engaging by utilizing digital libraries, semantic web technologies, and social learning tools to provide context and make the content come alive.

1. Virtual Archaeo-heritage Exploratorium: A Model Design for School Students Indo US S&T Forum Workshop on Digital Archaeology Nov 11-13, 2005, Mussorie, India Sanjay Goel and Mukul K. Sinha

2. It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not entirely strangled the holy curiosity of enquiry. Albert Einstein

3. Disconnects Disconnection from native culture. Disconnect of work from local society Perception of History as a collection of disconnected facts and missing context Historical museum and sites are disconnected from school education.

4. Some typical responses of school students to History Really such a boring… Student’s sleeping time. … ..

5. Vast Cutural Ore Achaeological Sites and Monuments Sculptures and artifacts Festivals and rituals Continuous civilisation

6. Objectives Reintegration to Cultural heritage Comprehending the continuous civilization Providing a social and historical identity

7. History Education Enrichment IT Archaeo-heritage Resources Learning Sciences Strategy

8. “ Technology helps overcome the two enemies of learning: isolation and abstraction.” George Lucas, Chairman, The George Lucas Educational Foundation

9. Computer as a tool to Explore with Design with Learn with Internet as a - Content Repository and - Medium for Interaction, Cooperation, and Collaboration Creative Competition Perspective

10. Archaeo-heritage Exploratorium A possibility

11. Archaeo-Heritage Exploratorium Sculptures and Artifacts DLs Built heritage DLs Pedagogical layer Semantic web Content Exploration and Authoring tools Sociable Web Festival and Ritual DLs

12. Archaeo-Heritage Exploratorium Sculptures and Artifacts DLs Built heritage DLs Pedagogical layer Semantic web Content Exploration and Authoring tools Sociable Web Festival and Ritual DLs

13. Pedagogical layering Retouched Images Annotation Hot-spotting Text Books based Ontology Concept maps

14. CONCEPT MAP

18. Archaeo-Heritage Exploratorium Sculptures and Artifacts DLs Built heritage DLs Pedagogical layer Semantic web Content Exploration and Authoring tools Sociable Web Festival and Ritual DLs

19. Semantic Web Concept based retrieval (Text- Ontology) Content based retrieval (Audio, Image, ...)

20. Content based retrieval Database Search Results ( Top 3 ) Database Search Results ( Top 3 ) Input Sample Input Sample

21. Archaeo-Heritage Exploratorium Sculptures and Artifacts DLs Built heritage DLs Pedagogical layer Semantic web Content Exploration and Authoring tools Sociable Web Festival and Ritual DLs

22. Content exploration tools Content retrieval, Visualisation, Animation, and Walkthroughs Juxtaposition, Comparison, and translucent overlays Progressive and contextual display Selective extraction and Schematization Measurement, Reconstruction, and Data integration Statistical analysis e.g clustering, regression Induction and Deduction Puzzles, Games Concept Map Authoring …… ACTIVE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT Hypothesis formulation and validation

23. Active learning tools: Reconstruction

24. Pot Without Extension Extended Skeleton Extended Pot Active learning tools: Reconstruction

25. Active learning tools: Analysis S. Goel et al., VSMM’ 05 Computer Vision based Dance Visualisation By

27. Archaeo-Heritage Exploratorium Sculptures and Artifacts DLs Built heritage DLs Pedagogical layer Semantic web Content Exploration and Authoring tools Sociable Web Festival and Ritual DLs

28. Sociable Web tools Learner initiated discussions Teacher initiated discussions Directed Browsing Co-browsing Online Creative Competitions

29. What we are doing ? School History and social studies curricula - Collating related web resources Creation of Ontology Tools - Specification, Design, and development Semantics web Sociable web Content Exploration Pedagogical layering

30. Pedagogical layering Retouched Images Annotation Hot-spotting Text Books based Ontology Concept maps Puzzles, Games

31. Invitation Community of creators to co-create pedagogical layer Archaeologists, Anthropologists, Historians Learning Scientists and teachers Fine Art, Design, and IT Enrichment of web-enabled DLs Support of funding agencies