“Revive Martin ‘s project Keys I have a special task and I do it with great love together with Mārtiņš ‘big sons. Our goal is to achieve Mārtiņš’s intention, to present Latvia and schools with this valuable material on one website, to invite teachers and students to actively participate in the discussion about the history of Latvia. In this way, we see an opportunity to give the TV show additional educational value and lasting long-term usefulness for the society, “says Mārtiņš’s wife, Ilze Grase-Ķibilde.
Interneta platforma www.atslegas.tv will serve as a voluntary teaching aid for learning about Latvian history, for use in history lessons, for teachers, students and other interested parties. The website is intended as an added value for schools, teachers use the material as a visual addition to the topics of Latvian history discussed in history lessons. The lesson is 40 minutes long – there is enough time for both the teacher and Keys, both for discussion.
Project www.atslegas.tv The aim is to increase understanding of Latvia’s history as a precondition for a smart, democratic society. To implement this platform www.atslegas.tv become a useful additional source of knowledge used by teachers to enrich history learning alongside existing alternatives to compulsory subjects, encourage greater student interest in history, and develop students’ critical thinking, understanding of causation and discussion skills.
Internet platform www.atslegas.tv now all 50 broadcasts will be in one place Keys series, translated into Russian and English, providing an opportunity to learn more about Latvia for a wider audience both in Latvia and the diaspora outside our country. Translate Keys was planned in the beginning of October 2019 with the active participation of Mārtiņš Ķibilds. Honoring the memory of Mārtiņš, VFS Films study with the target program of the State Culture Capital Fund Latvijai – 100, Nordic Council of Ministers a British Council support for the project until November 2020.
Latvian State Centennial Program Mārtiņa Ķibilda and VFS Films cycle of large-scale TV programs Keys consists of 50 series of 15 minutes long and is one of the largest TV documentary genre projects ever made into the history of Latvia. The key approach to illuminating history is to find an unusual point of view, even for seemingly well-known events, to “unlock other doors” to lesser-known facts and thus make these stories more interesting than “known history”. Internet platform www.atslegas.lv will be a useful addition to the creative learning of the school history program – the basis on which to develop a voluntary set of optional teaching aids for history teachers and students.
–
