Using New Media to Enhance Teaching

Our Director of Program Technology, Deborah Chad, recently published an article in Innovative Learning, a publication produced by the Special Interest Group for Innovative Learning Technologies (SIGILT). SIGILT enables educators, researchers, educational reform leaders and learning technology innovators to share information about promising and proven new learning technologies. The article features our Digital Media Innovation Network (DMIN), a two-year initiative in which Facing History staff and educators from the United States, Canada, London, South Africa, and China will explore uses of digital media for teaching and learning, further building Facing History’s capacity to integrate new media and documentary films into its classroom resources, professional development, and support services for its global network of more than 50,000 educators.

"The use of documentary films has always been an important part of Facing History’s approach to education. Film captures students’ attention in ways print does not. As media plays a growing role in their lives and their learning. Bringing new media into the classroom can increase students’ engagement and give them new opportunities to engage actively with content about the Holocaust and other examples of genocide and mass violence."

Read the article, "Using New Media to Enhance the Teaching of Documentary Film."

Learn more about our Digital Media Innovation Network.