Watching Videos Like a Historian

The Watching Videos Like a Historian (WATCHLIKEAHIST) project supported European educators to teach media literacy and critical thinking skills through audiovisual resources by creating a toolkit based on digital competencies and new practices in education. The toolkit includeed teaching strategies, learning scenarios, eLearning activities, and links to audiovisual (AV) galleries.

The project worked with trusted AV archives from across Europe, sourced by Europeana’s AV aggregator EUscreen and Spain’s TV3, in order to engage students across Europe to critically reflect on our shared history. It brought together local history and citizenship educators and AV collections holders to develop, implement and evaluate tailored educational solutions that were aligned with local educational contexts, and could be easily scaled up.

In addition to the toolkit, the project created a practitioners guide for AV professionals to help them turn their cultural heritage assets into open educational resources. The project also support for audiovisual collections to the Historiana platform, the online resource for history educators in Europe.

WATCHLIKEAHIST enabled cross-sector collaboration on a European level, promoting media literacy through capacity building workshops and a pan-European awareness raising campaign.