Digital Storytelling

’’Tell a story and become a lifelong learner’’. This is really true with digital storytelling. Writing digital stories ignites a love of learning and creates powerful teaching stories for others to share and enjoy. This approach to learning is an exciting and compelling way to engage students in the learning process and to inspire them to become lifelong learners.

By incorporating digital storytelling projects into learning, we, as teachers, can reach today’s students and, at the same time, help them to develop the skills they need to be successful in our complex, technology-rich world and give students all the benefits to help prepare students for success in the 21st century.

Students of all ages enjoy creating stories, and more and more students are eager to use technological tools to create those stories. Digital storytelling, the art of combining storytelling with some mixture of digital graphics, text, recorded audio narration, video, and music to communicate information about a specific theme or topic, enables them to do both at once.

They develop cooperation and communication skills, practice problem-solving and critical-thinking skills as students think more deeply, clearly, and complexly about the content. They also encourage students to write and to work at becoming better writers. It empowers them to find their unique point of view and relationship to the material they are investigating.

 

When students integrate technology into their projects, these benefits increase. I think that if we ask most students which they would rather do – write a traditional paper or create a digital story that presents their research and learning – they will definitely tell you, “Create a digital story!”To tell the truth, going deeper into this web tool, I am really excited and fascinated and my response to the question will be definitely the same as it opens new and novel opportunities for learning both for students and the teachers.