How to use digital storytelling with students?
- Maths – outline the history of Maths
- SOSE – stories on Hiroshima and the Holocaust
- To promote digital literacy (the new literacy)
- To tell personal stories
- Retell an event from the life of a famous person
- Younger students could become an animal and tell their story (including food they eat, habitat and their young)
How does digital storytelling fit in with learning engagement theory?
Learning engagement theory is that students must be meaningfully engaged in learning activities through interactions with others and worthwhile tasks (Shneiderman, 1994). Shneiderman (1994) also stated that engagement theory represents a new paradigm for learning in the information age what emphasises the positive role that ICT plays in learning.
Digital storytelling engages the students in their course work and can be a personal task, therefore fitting in with the learning engagement theory.
Kearsley & Shneiderman (1998) recognise that engagement is achieved through good design and eLearning. Digital storytelling allows learners to see stories bought to life through a media rich environment.
References:
Shneiderman, B. (1994) Education by Engagement and Construction: Can Distance Education be Better than Face-to-Face? [http://www.hitl.washington.edu/scivw/EVE/distance.html ]
Kearsley, G., & Shneiderman, B. (1998). Engagement theory: A framework for technology-based teaching and learning. Educational Technology, 38(5), 20. Retrieved from http://home.sprynet.com/~gkearsley/engage.htm
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