Teaching Materials
For university & professional educators
Structured approaches for using Simulating Silence in university seminars, multi-week courses, and professional development contexts. Materials span heritage studies, digital humanities, East Asian history, museum studies, and related fields.
New to this resource? Start with Teaching Pathways →
Teaching Pathways
Structured approaches for single sessions, multi-week units, and professional development.
DiscussionDiscussion Prompts
Questions for classroom discussion, written reflection, and seminar activities.
WorksheetsWorksheets
Downloadable PDF worksheets for source analysis and comparative exercises.
In the Sources section AssessmentAssessment Rubrics
Grading criteria for essays, presentations, and project-based assignments.
Module GuideSocial Media & Digital Memory
Instructor resources, activities, and assessment options for the digital memory module.
The Core Sequence
These nine modules are the content students read. Each takes 10–20 minutes; the complete sequence takes approximately 2.5 hours. Paired worksheets and discussion prompts are noted below each module. View the full sequence →
The HashimaXR Project
What was built, what was intended, and why it matters.
→ Worksheet 8: How Heritage Works Module 01 · ~20 minHashima in Time and Place
From Meiji industrialisation through wartime mobilisation to UNESCO inscription.
→ Worksheet 8: How Heritage Works Module 02 · ~15 minHow Heritage Works
Authorised Heritage Discourse, interpretive regimes, and the politics of "balance."
→ Worksheet 8: How Heritage Works Module 03 · ~15 minUNESCO & Contested Heritage
The 2015 inscription, Japan's commitments, and transnational counter-narratives.
→ Worksheet 6: UNESCO & Contested Heritage Module 04 · ~15 minLabour, Empire, and Evidence
Coerced labour at Hashima and the politics of historical knowledge production.
→ Worksheet 1: Source Analysis Module 05 · ~15 minDigital Histories
XR as historiography and the digital landscape around Hashima.
→ Worksheet 2: Analysing Digital Heritage Module 06 · ~15 minReading Institutional Positions
Analytical tools for interpreting how heritage governance operates through documentary evidence.
→ Worksheet 5: Analysing Institutional Positions Module 07 · ~15 minPositions & Perspectives
Regional media discourse and institutional positions on Hashima's contested heritage.
→ Worksheet 4: Regional Perspectives Module 08 · ~15 minWhy the Project Stayed Unreleased
Soft gatekeeping, procedural refusal, temporal drag, and the archive of obstruction.
→ Worksheet 3: Patterns of Obstruction CompanionSocial Media and Digital Memory
How platforms shape contested heritage narratives: algorithmic amplification and the testimony wars.
→ Worksheet 7: Social Media & Digital Memory CompanionSongs from the Coalfields
An audio-based learning experience exploring the folk songs that Hashima's workers brought from Japan's coalfield regions.
CompanionTimeline: Hashima in History
Interactive timeline from 1890 to the present—filter by theme, explore enquiry questions, and hear the island's soundscape.
Downloadable Resources
Worksheets
- Worksheet 1: Source Analysis
- Worksheet 2: Analysing Digital Heritage
- Worksheet 3: Patterns of Obstruction
- Worksheet 4: Regional Perspectives
- Worksheet 5: Analysing Institutional Positions
- Worksheet 6: UNESCO & Contested Heritage
- Worksheet 7: Social Media & Digital Memory
- Worksheet 8: How Heritage Works