In which way does this location address educational issues?
The museum attempts to create an immersive experience of the aftermath of Kristallnacht and charges the visitor with the task of collating the witness statements as a news report left on notecards pinned to a board. The notecards were however as far as I could see simply personal responses and I did not see any actual visitor news reports.
The reporter moves around the streets encouraged to listen to accounts and look at the evidence of destruction and recorded statements. There are no avatar represaentation of witnesses and this might have helped the experience. As a teacher I might prepare an avatar in period costume with which the learners could interact and interview. Argualbly this would be going away from the actula real witness statements but the interaction was quite limited to listening and looking. No higher order thinking is required in the reporting task uness learners are guided to evaluate what they have seen and heard. In a class situation this could for example be done with the dilemna of reporters of the period and what constraints might be placed upon them.
I did not feel I wanted to leave a message on the board as anything I might say would only seem trite or superficial. I think however, if done as part of a lesson with input on how to write news reports, a cross curricular English/ History task where the reports would be shared within the class group either as blogs or in SLreports.
According to you, which is the target audience of the educational events/action taking place in the location?
The target audience would be 12-14 year olds in particular I would think but could be for older students studying GCSE History for example, as a starter for a topic.
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