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In this video, USC Shoah Foundation’s Executive Director Stephen Smith examines the nature and complexity of memory and testimony through the narrative of Holocaust survivor Pinchas Gutter.

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  • Constructivist Theory and the Use of Video Testimony in Education

    Language: English

    This video explores the connection between Constructivist Theory and the principles of teaching with testimony.  It also highlights how testimony encourages active learning, which allows for students to incorporate new information in order to change or reorganize their preexisting thoughts and beliefs.

  • Listen and Listen Again

    Language: English

    In this video, USC Shoah Foundation’s Executive Director Stephen Smith examines the nature and complexity of memory and testimony through the narrative of Holocaust survivor Pinchas Gutter.

  • Ethical Editing

    Language: English

    Professors Holly Willis and Steve Anderson of USC’s Institute for Multimedia Literacy lead a discussion with educators about considerations for making “ethical” editorial decision when developing videos that use eyewitness testimony.

  • Teaching, Testimony, and Transformation: Understanding the Global Landscape

    Language: English

    Kim Feinberg, USC Shoah Foundation Regional Consultant in South Africa and Founder and CEO of the Tomorrow Trust, and Freddy Mutanguha, Director of the Kigali Genocide Memorial Centre in Rwanda, address the importance of using testimony in education from a global perspective. This video is excerpted from the keynote presentation, Teaching, Testimony, and Transformation: Understanding the Global Landscape, at the Institute’s Teaching with Testimony Master Teacher Program Best Practices Workshop in August 2012.

  • 2013/02/11: Lecture with Dr. Howard Gardner, "Digital Media, Learning, and Empathy"

    Language: English

    February 11, 2013: Dr. Howard Gardner, best known for his theory of multiple intelligences, engaged in a public conversation on the art science of 21st-century education with Dr. Mary Helen Immordino-Yang, an award-winning behavioral and social scientist and faculty member at the University of Southern California.

Constructivist Theory and the Use of Video Testimony in Education
Ethical Editing
Teaching with Testimony 2011

Students learn from memories of survivors of the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda

The students came to the Institute to search for and extract 10 video clips to use for a project in IWitness, the Institute’s award-winning educational website.

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A conversation with Stephen Feinberg, leading Holocaust educator

Stephen Feinberg remembers always finding the study of history to be interesting and exciting. During his studies as an undergraduate and graduate student, he was introduced to the history of the Holocaust.

“I became increasingly aware that this was a watershed event in history,” he recalls. “Therefore, I felt that it should be taught in schools.”

At distinguished Hungarian University, USC Shoah Foundation introduces concept of “learning moments” found through survivor testimony

On March 19, USC Shoah Foundation – The Institute for Visual History and Education gave a presentation about education based on Holocaust survivor testimony to more than 100 students, faculty, and staff of the University of Szeged, one of Central Europe’s foremost institutions of higher learning.

IWitness at statewide “Day of Learning” for California students and teachers

USC Shoah Foundation – The Institute for Visual History and Education was one of a select few organizations invited by the Jewish Family and Children’s Services (JFCS) Holocaust Center to lead a workshop at the Day of Learning. The JFCS organizes the Day of Learning to help young people gain a deeper understanding of the Holocaust and patterns of genocide, and to inspire moral courage and social responsibility in the future. Its many workshops are enhanced by testimonies of Holocaust survivors and survivors of other genocides.

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