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.

  • Building Technological Bridges with History: the use of digital learning platforms to promote tailored History Education
  • Feeling the Museum: putting oneself in the shoes of students with special needs to understand how to provide the best didactic experience possible
  • Students as Mediators of Conflicts
  • Find out what New Students Bring to the Classroom

    As a response to an increase in new students in the Swedish educational system, the Swedish Board of Education tasked a group of schools and universities to find a way to assess what newly arrived students know in order to provide the best possible education for each student, as well as focusing on their strengths rather than their weaknesses. This resulted in the formation of materials for conducting discourse around history for the purpose of assessing the historical competencies of newly arrived students. This is done in the form of a 70-minute conversation between a teacher and a student. The assessment is meant to provide valuable insight into what the students are already familiar with, so that teachers can take this into account when creating lesson plans.