Using Technology to Teach About the Holocaust Created by Jaclyn Rosansky, Content Editor Senior, ProQuest Infographic originally appeared on ProQuest Share This blog Encourage students to use critical thinking skills when evaluating online information about the Holocaust. ProQuest Research Companion can help filter out Holocaust denial websites and fake news about the Holocaust. It can also help educators teach the core principles of information literacy. Integrate multimedia into Holocaust lessons with sufficient depth and clarity. The USC Shoah Foundation and ProQuest bring history to life through the Visual History Archive. Its 'New Dimensions in Testimony' project preserves the testimonies of Holocaust survivors. Geo-Immersion can show how buildings, sites and locations from the Holocaust have changed over time through computer-generated virtual spaces. This can greatly enhance lessons. Exploring online museum exhibitions and collections is another way to immerse students in education about the Holocaust. Become familiar with the different types of technology and media students can use to learn about the Holocaust. Google Earth and Google Maps can prove to be very insightful in showing the reality and scale of concentration camps. Assign research projects that are specific and precise while providing reputable and trustworthy web links to use. This will help students learn which sources are dependable and which ones are misleading, inappropriate or unethical. Be sensitive in teachings about the Holocaust and bear in mind its seriousness when creating assignments. One example of an appropriate assignment could be asking students to listen to a podcast about the Holocaust and answer a series of questions about it. Source: Gray, Michael. Teaching the Holocaust. Routledge, 2015 via ProQuest Ebook Central More Information: ProQuest Guided Research products also offer many resources on the Holocaust. Free trials are available. More Information: The USC Shoah Foundation and ProQuest bring 55,000 testimonies to thousands of students and researchers at colleges and universities around the world through the Visual History Archive. More Information: ProQuest Research Companion is an information literacy product designed to help students and support educators.

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Using Technology to TeachAbout the Holocaust

Created by Jaclyn Rosansky, Content Editor Senior, ProQuest

Infographic originally appeared on ProQuest Share This blog

Encourage students to use critical thinking skillswhen evaluating online information about the

Holocaust.

ProQuest ResearchCompanion can help filter outHolocaust denial websites and

fake news about theHolocaust. It can also helpeducators teach the coreprinciples of information

literacy.

Integrate multimedia into Holocaustlessons with sufficient depth and clarity.

The USC Shoah Foundation and

ProQuest bring history to lifethrough the Visual History Archive.Its 'New Dimensions in Testimony'project preserves the testimonies

of Holocaust survivors.

Geo-Immersion can show howbuildings, sites and locations from the

Holocaust have changed over timethrough computer-generated virtual

spaces. This can greatly enhancelessons. Exploring online museum

exhibitions and collections is anotherway to immerse students in education

about the Holocaust.

Become familiar with the differenttypes of technology and media

students can use to learn about theHolocaust. Google Earth and GoogleMaps can prove to be very insightful

in showing the reality and scale ofconcentration camps.

Assign research projects that arespecific and precise while providing

reputable and trustworthy web links touse. This will help students learn which

sources are dependable and whichones are misleading, inappropriate or

unethical.

Be sensitive in teachings about theHolocaust and bear in mind its

seriousness when creating assignments. One example of an appropriate

assignment could be asking students tolisten to a podcast about the Holocaustand answer a series of questions about

it.

Source: Gray, Michael. Teaching the Holocaust. Routledge, 2015 via ProQuest Ebook Central

More Information: ProQuest Guided Research products also offer many resources on the Holocaust. Free trials areavailable.

More Information: The USC Shoah Foundation and ProQuest bring 55,000 testimonies to thousands of students andresearchers at colleges and universities around the world through the Visual History Archive.

More Information: ProQuest Research Companion is an information literacy product designed to help students andsupport educators.

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