Information Technology as a Tool for Teaching History with a Focus on Artificial Intelligence and Audiovisual Material

This paper examines the use of various teaching aids in upper secondary schools and their impact on the acquisition of new information and its long-term memory retention. A teaching experiment was conducted on students from three grades. The experiment involved students working with three different materials - text, video and a large language model (artificial intelligence, specifically ChatGPT). The experiment investigated the degree of knowledge gained from working with each material, especially the effect on long-term memory: the amount of knowledge approximately one month after performing the activity. This paper presents the results of this experiment and compares them to similar research. The results showed that the video was a very good tool to get information, although the other materials also had very good results, not to be neglected. Video, on the other hand, proved to be a less suitable material for retaining knowledge within long-term memory.