Historias para armar (HPA) was created to address the challenge of building digital literacy skills needed for children in today’s world and promoting a creative and meaningful use of technology.
Free educational resources that are tailored to Latin America's reality (its language, culture and diversity of contexts) are rare. HPA is designed to be inclusive and accessible for all.
Historias para armar is an interactive online and offline platform that provides prompts, tools and proposals to create stories and expand them in digital formats.
It has three main components:
1. EXPLORAR (Explore): original fiction mini-series to inspire and introduce the art of storytelling.
2. CREAR (Create): interactive experience that guides the story-thinking process, helps organize a step-by-step narration, create characters and scenarios.
3. CONTAR (Tell): supports the conversion or expansion of stories into digital formats like films, animations, sound stories, comics or video games.
HPA also provides resources for educators and families. According to testimonials from educators and records of platform implementation, HPA has allowed them to promote socio-emotional skills, innovate the approach to curricular content by considering children’s interests, promote active and creative use of technology and support the inclusion of communities with less access to technology.
HPA was created by Disney and Chicos.net as a multiplatform initiative to ensure wider access. Content is distributed offline and online through the website, Youtube, television, government platforms, pdf worksheets.
To increase the impact and reach, partnerships were made with 24 leading organizations across Latin America and Ministries of Education, with the alliance with UNESCO deepening in recent years.
To date, HPA has reached:
+215,400 unique website users.
+1,096,000 children.
+39,000 teachers.
+111,300 stories created on the platform.
New initiatives for educators and children are proposed each year, such as the 2022 contest 'Historias de mi lugar' which invited children to share illustrations from their culture, some of which were integrated into the platform.
Visit the website www.historiasparaarmar.org
Children can create their stories in creador.historiasparaarmar.org Families can find games and ideas in www.historiasparaarmar.org/familias Educators can access activity proposals and resources in www.historiasparaarmar.org/docentes
HPA offers free training courses to NGOs and governments. More information and contact: contacto@historiasparaarmar.org
