Name: Cómo los niños pueden aprender historia
Uploaded: 2019-03-01T23:35:32Z
Duration: 18 min 51 s
Description: Can children learn about critical topics via seemingly incongruous media like cartoons or oral storytelling? In this moving talk, screenwriter and director Fernando Salem champions the lasting power of storytelling, speaking to the ways in which a well-crafted narrative can help kids learn and retain history.

Fernando Salem: Cómo los niños pueden aprender historia

Cómo los niños pueden aprender historia

Can children learn about critical topics via seemingly incongruous media like cartoons or oral storytelling? In this moving talk, screenwriter and director Fernando Salem champions the lasting power of storytelling, speaking to the ways in which a well-crafted narrative can help kids learn and retain history. 

Children remember the lessons that move them, not just what is repeated in class. A heartfelt story about a teacher nearly sent to the Falklands war stayed with students for decades, more than any textbook. Narratives and authentic emotion turn history into lived experience, breaking through the barriers of dry pedagogy and making learning unforgettable.