The Archive for Education, one of the seven finalists for the MEDEA Awards 2023
6 Jun 2023The interactive function to search and create assignments for secondary school students, which we introduced on our educational platform at the start of this academic year, have earned us this nomination. This feature allows students to search through our partners’ protected audiovisual content while at the same time developing their digital skills. Our educational platform project was selected from 70 submissions worldwide, and the winners will be announced at the 10th edition of the Media & Learning Congress in Leuven on 20 June.
This year’s theme, Where pedagogy meets media, addresses the challenge for educators to integrate media in all possible forms into the learning process in the most efficient and effective way.
With The Archive for Education, we’re aiming to support teachers and trainee teachers in this endeavour. The interactive search and create functions mean secondary school teachers can give their students assignments to search for suitable content from over 25,000 images and audio clips in our educational image database. Students also have the opportunity to create collections on a specific topic. By searching for relevant audiovisual content, selecting it and providing explanations, they learn to create a coherent narrative. This helps them to improve their online searching and digital skills, all while using our partners’ high-quality Flemish archive content.
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MEDEA Awards 2023
The MEDEA Awards have been presented by The Media & Learning Association every year since 2007, with the aim of promoting innovation and good practices in the use of media in education. This year, seven finalists have been selected from 70 submissions from all around the world. The award ceremony will take place at the annual Media & Learning conference, which will be held in Leuven on 20 and 21 June. Our submission, titled From archive to the classroom: the interactive use of media to boost digital literacy in learners, will be presented by our Project Leader Education, Leen De Bruyn.
The other finalists are:
Effective Communication for Leadership by IE University, Spain
Mediajungle: Super Fake Safari by Mediajungle, Netherlands
Platinum Jubilee by The National Archives, United Kingdom
Stolpersteine NRW by Westdeutscher Rundfunk, Germany
Tell Me What I See by Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway
‘Trust Me’ documentary by Getting Better Foundation, United States
The extensive student area on The Archive for Education was made possible with support from VLAIO (Flemish Agency for Innovation and Entrepreneurship), the Flemish Minister of Education, and the Flemish Department of Education & Training.