In this course, you will explore the Watching Videos Like a Historian Toolkit, a resource designed to help educators integrate audiovisual cultural heritage materials into their teaching. This toolkit supports innovative and dynamic approaches to history education, fostering critical thinking, historical understanding, and media literacy among students.

Learning goals
By the end of the course, you will:

  • Learn how to effectively use audiovisual sources in the classroom.
  • Develop strategies to enrich students’ engagement with history in a critical way using audiovisual resources.
  • Blend traditional and digital learning resources to create transformative educational experiences.

The Watching Videos Like a Historian Toolkit was co-created by education professionals, collection holders, media experts, and heritage organisations as part of the Watching Videos Like a Historian project, funded by the European Union’s Erasmus+ programme.

Who is this course for?
History and Social Studies Teachers looking to enhance students’ critical thinking and historical understanding through audiovisual sources.
Educators in Primary, Secondary, and Higher Education are seeking innovative ways to incorporate digital and multimedia materials into lessons.
Cultural Heritage Professionals, Museum Educators and other non-formal educators using historical audiovisual content to create engaging learning experiences.

  • How do we decide what we believe? – Helping students learn how to question beliefs and test claims to become more (self) critical and evidence based in their thinking
  • Augmentative Communication: the creation of visual vocabularies as a support in the study of works of art
  • The Other, The Different, The Identical
  • Silent Learning: the use of Quizzes to motivate and assess participation and learning in the classroom
  • Silent Learning: the use of small-group learning and sharing to ensure full participation in the classroom