21st Century Learning and Teaching

Für die Inka waren es "Perlen der Sonne", die Spanier sahen nur den materiellen Wert. Der Mythos des Inka-Goldes hat in dieser Unversöhnlichkeit zweier Wertesysteme ihren Ursprung. Nach "InkaGold" (2004/2005) nimmt das Weltkulturerbe Völklinger Hütte erneut und mit neuen Exponaten die faszinierenden Hochkulturen der Inka- und Vor-Inka-Zeit in den Blick.

Der Kern-Bestand der Exponate stammt aus dem Larco Museum, Lima und Cusco, das die größte Privatsammlung altperuanischer Kunst weltweit besitzt. Einzigartige Exponate des Musée des Jacobins, Auch (F), des Weltmuseums Wien und des Roemer- und Pelizaeus- Museums, Hildesheim, vervollständigen die Ausstellung. Die Museen in Wien und Hildesheim sind für ihre Sammlungen weltberühmt. Das Musée des Jacobins, Auch, besitzt eine der größten Sammlungen zur präkolumbianischen Kultur in Frankreich. Das Musée de l'Armée, Paris, leiht spanische Waffen und Pferderüstung der spanischen Conquistadores.

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Ever dreamt of visiting a majestic château in France’s world-famous Loire Valley but can’t afford it? Well, now you can.

The Loire Valley, which once housed France’s kings and nobility, attracts thousands of tourists a year. But, for many, a trip to France to see the fairytale former royal residences has long been an inaccessible dream.

The castles that can now be viewed almost brick by brick with the new ‘Google Street View’ virtual tours include Sully-sur-Loire, Chambord and Cité Royale de Loches. Those who run these historic landmarks hope that the project will boost tourism to the charming and scenic “Valley of the Kings”.

At least when I was in grade school, we learned the very basics of how the Third Reich came to power in the early 1930s. Paramilitary gangs terrorizing the opposition, the incompetence and opportunism of German conservatives, the Reichstag Fire. And we learned about the critical importance of propaganda, the deliberate misinforming of the public in order to sway opinions en masse and achieve popular support (or at least the appearance of it).

While Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels purged Jewish and leftist artists and writers, he built a massive media infrastructure that played, writes PBS, “probably the most important role in creating an atmosphere in Germany that made it possible for the Nazis to commit terrible atrocities against Jews, homosexuals, and other minorities.”

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Virtual reality is an amazing technology. While we don’t claim to know if it’ll succeed in the gaming world outside of a narrow niche, the demos and games we’ve seen have been impressive, particularly when it comes to creating a sense of “being there.”

Now, German prosecutors have created an advanced VR simulation of the German concentration camp Auschwitz, in an effort to model exactly where specific Nazi war criminals were and what they saw.

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