Using digital tech to teach Holocaust history

Digital technology offers new ways to teach lessons from the Holocaust [Click here to view this message in your web-browser](. Edition: US 24 January 2019 [The Conversation]( Academic rigor, journalistic flair Editor's note Even though the Holocaust involved some of the worst atrocities of the 20th century, research shows that most millennials – those born in the 1980s and 90s – know very little when it comes to Holocaust history. A scholar describes how she dug into the problem and found that digital technologies – from holograms of Holocaust survivors to virtual reality that places people in the courtroom of the Nuremberg trials – could help [close gaps in knowledge](. France has levied the first fine under the EU’s General Data Protection Regulations, a framework meant to give European citizens more control over their online personal data. Michigan State researcher Thomas Holt asks, “[Why has the U.S. not taken a similarly strong approach]( to privacy management and regulation?” There are a few possible reasons – and none of them are good news for data privacy in the U.S. In an effort to end the 34-day-old government shutdown, both the Democrats and the president have put forth proposals. But as negotiations go, [both sides are doing it wrong](, write labor mediation experts Thomas Kochan and Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld. For insight into how to resolve the stalemate, they point to a dockworkers dispute that crippled the Port of Los Angeles in 2015. Jamaal Abdul-Alim Education Editor Top Stories A student speaks with Holocaust survivor William Morgan using an interactive virtual conversation exhibit at the the Holocaust Museum Houston in January 2019. David J. 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