ONLINE ONLY - Digital family stories - students as historians
This session can only be accessed online. As someone with an on-site ticket you can access this session using your own device and headset. Room A is available to use to join online sessions.
Join to find out more about a project that placed students as historians, creating compelling narratives and telling multimedia stories about their families in the Second World War.
During the session you will hear about a method of digital storytelling that encourages students to learn by conducting research. Students use primary sources in their study - interviews and collections of family memorabilia. Search services like Finna.fi and Europeana.eu and digitised collections of the National Archive supplement their family collections. As the student searches for answers to their research questions, a micro-level history is woven into a larger macro-level context, displaying the multifaceted nature of history, and as students account for their family history, they connect emotionally to the past. We believe this helps support the students’ growth and identity.
The method is valid for creating digital stories on any other historical topic, and teachers can apply it at all school levels. Join, and find out how you can encourage your students to become historians.
Juha has been a history and social studies teacher in secondary and upper secondary schools for over thirty years.
His colleague Sari Halavaara and he have focused on developing student-centered and collaborative learning methods. Digital technologies are an essential tool for enhancing learning. They have created three learning scenarios on the Teaching with Europeana website.
Our acknowledgments: The History and Social Studies Teacher of the Year Award (2012). Apple Distinguished Educator (2017). Jan Comenius Award for innovative teaching of EU affairs (2020).
Sari Halavaara
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Espoo city
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Michael Edson
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Independent
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Cultural strategist
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Michael Peter Edson is a strategist, consultant, and thought leader at the forefront of digital transformation in the cultural sector. Michael was the Director of Web and New Media Strategy for the Smithsonian Institution, the world’s largest museum and research complex, and co-founder of the Museum of the United Nations – UN Live, a newly emerging institution designed to catalyze global change from the bottom-up. He is a Salzburg Global Fellow; an alumni Fellow at the Getty Leadership Institute; a Presidential Distinguished Fellow emeritus at the Council for Libraries and Information Resources (USA); a juror for the MacArthur Foundation's $100 million grant initiative, $100 & Change, and the creator of numerous award-winning digital initiatives. Michael is an O'Reilly Foo Camp alumni and he was named a "Tech Titan: person to watch" by Washingtonian magazine.
Find out more about Michael at usingdata.com
Joke VAN DER LEEUW-ROORD
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Euroclio , The European Association Of History, Heritage And Citizenship Educators Educators
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Kristine Racina
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Expatriate Archive Centre
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Director
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Hannah Baker Hitzhusen
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Europeana Foundation
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Renilde Reynders
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Independent
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Consultant
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Cultural heritage, European and international cooperation, education, literature...
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I worked for 26 years for the European education programmes in the National Agency in Belgium (Flanders)
Rob Feenstra
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UB Leiden
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Project Manager
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IIIF
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