Participatory & Relevant
Young people have a seat at the table when we develop our educational resources.
How can digital educational resources reach young people and encourage them to engage with history? Our goal is to design resources that relate directly to young people’s everyday lives, their digital habits, and learning situations. That’s why we make it a priority to talk – and listen – to young people on a regular basis.
What kind of content do I find interesting? And how do I learn best? We invite pupils to take part in workshops where they can contribute ideas, enter into discussions, and give feedback. And our focus on dialog with young people continues when the modules are already in use. Together we explore questions like these: What options for do I have for taking action today? How can I make a difference?
Facts not Fiction: The Making of a New Module
Facts not Fiction is a Europe-wide history project that invites young people to take on the role of a historian. The Arolsen Archives are working with a number of partner schools in Germany. Pupils research the life story of a young person from their town who was persecuted by the Nazis. The young people then attend workshops where they work with artists to create graphic novels. Based on their research, a new module will also be created for the arolsen school platform.
Suspicious – Remembering Ohrdruf Concentration Camp
The module “Suspicious” demonstrates how the use of digital media and the active participation of young people help create innovative learning and remembrance projects. Suspicious sheds light on the history of Ohrdruf concentration camp from various perspectives. Young people were involved in the development of this module on many levels. For example, they digitized documents containing 20,000 names of prisoners from Ohrdruf concentration camp as part of the #everynamecounts campaign. In workshops and local history projects, they helped to reconstruct the history of this Buchenwald sub-camp and create a digital place of remembrance.
