Threshold Magazine - More Than a Field Trip
Winter 2008

The Winter 2008 issue of Threshold: Exploring the Future of Education features articles focused on taking advantage of the informal-learning opportunities at your local museums and libraries, produced in partnership with the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

	The Sparks, the Skills, and the Pathways Eric J. Jolly discusses why informal learning is an essential ingredient for academic success.
	Outside the Box Dennie Palmer Wolf looks at how districts and communities can support informal-learning opportunities at home, in the field, and at school.
	Informal Learning: A Threshold Forum Marsha L. Semmel, Michael DiMaggio, Alan J. Friedman, Martín J. Gómez, and Beverly K. Sheppard discuss how museums and libraries work best with schools.
	Building Bridges for Learning How one community’s museums and libraries leverage on-site field trips and distance-learning technology to provide a wide range of informal-learning options to area schools.
	Surviving in the Information Age Ruth V. Small explores what it means to be literate in the 21st century and looks at how libraries are leading the way by providing critical educational services to help people become independent consumers of information.
	New Models, Merging Missions Pamela Carter-Birken discusses how schools are using technology and innovative programming to bridge and support formal- and informal-learning opportunities with the nation’s museums and libraries.
	Departments
	Explorations Strengthening Connections Among Schools, Libraries, and Museums: Cable in the Classroom’s Helen Soulé and the Institute of Media and Library Services’ Anne-Imelda M. Radice on the challenges and opportunities of bridging formal and informal learning.
	About Threshold Who we are, what we do, and why.
	In Focus Learning in the 21st century is a blend of formal and informal experiences.