21st CENTURY LEARNING LINKS

By engaging with Primary Voices, students are provided with essential learning strategies of the 21st Century Learning Initiative:

  • Self-paced and self-directed learning
  • Individualized learning
  • Technology supported learning
  • Virtual school learning opportunities

For more information on the concepts of 21st Century Learning please visit, http://www.c21canada.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/C21-Canada-Shifting-Version-2.0.pdf.

B.C. CURRICULUM LINKS

PRIMARY VOICES OBJECTIVES ARE ALIGNED WITH THE NEW B.C CURRICULUM AND HISTORICAL THINKING CONCEPTS
As students engage with this resource and the suggested discussions and activities, they employ the following core competencies of the new B.C. curriculum:

  • Development of Communication skills
  • Development of Critical and Creative Thinking skills
  • Reflection on Personal and Cultural Identity
  • Reflection on Social Responsibility

Primary Voices: Teaching Through Holocaust Survivor Testimony offers flexibility to teachers and students as it allows users to engage with material according to their interests and distinct learning contexts. The resource supports personalized and deeper learning processes, both of which are core emphases of the new curriculum.

  • Encourages Personalized learning
  • Encourages Deeper learning

The Primary Voices website provides students with the opportunity to enhance their digital literacy — another new curriculum core emphasis.

  • Fosters Digital learning

For more information about the new B.C. curriculum please visit: https://curriculum.gov.bc.ca/

In addition, lesson plan objectives correspond to six concepts outlined by the Historical Thinking Project which was developed by a faculty member at the University of British Columbia and which helped to inform the new B.C. curriculum. In order to think historically, students will be able to:

  1. Establish historical significance
  2. Use primary source evidence
  3. Identify continuity and change
  4. Analyze cause and consequence
  5. Take historical perspectives
  6. Understand the ethical dimensions of history

For more information about these six concepts and the Historical Thinking Project, please visit: www.historicalthinking.ca

Additional Holocaust education resources can be found on the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre website: www.vhec.org