Digital Storytelling is a great tool for students, teachers and anyone who wants to tell their story. This short video gives insight into what a Digital Story is, check it out.
¨ Helps develop visual and multimedia
literacy.
¨ Provides students with a competitive
and compelling voice.
¨ Helps students write more effectively.
¨ Encourages self-directed,
self-motivated learning experiences.
¨ Teaches technology, information, and
visual literacy. 21st century skills.
¨ Engages our students in their
learning.
¨ Learning taking place at the upper
level of Bloom’s Taxonomy.
¨ Addresses Brooklyn Technology Learning
Targets and Ohio’s Technology Standards as well as the Common Core.
¨ Encourages cross-curricular learning.
Digital storytelling provides students with a powerful 21st century learning experience that capitalizes on their interest in technology and their skills with it. Managing the process of crafting a powerful digital story provides opportunities for students to work on project management skills like organization, time management, leadership, initiative, persistence, and teamwork.
21st Century Skills
When digital storytelling is used by students, it provides a strong foundation in many different types of literacy, including;
Digital Literacy -the ability to communicate with an ever-expanding community to discuss issues, gather information, and seek help;
Global Literacy -the capacity to read, interpret, respond, and contextualize messages from a global perspective;
Visual Literacy -the ability to understand, produce, and communicate through visual images;
Technology Literacy -the ability to use computers and other technology to improve learning, productivity, and performance;
Information Literacy -the ability to find, evaluate and synthesize information.
Brown, J., Bryan, J., & Brown, T. (2005). Twenty-first century literacy and technology in K-8 classrooms. Innovate, 1(3).
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.186.5118
- There are many other formats you can implement to build literacy while encouraging deeper thinking about the content being studied. Here are some examples.
Visual Poetry
Poetry’s purposeful word choice encourages close, careful reading. Have students create digital storytelling versions of text poems to demonstrate their comprehension of the author’s word choice and intent. As they create their visual poems, students ”interpret words and phrases as they are used in a text, including determining technical, connotative, and figurative meanings, and analyze how specific word choices shape meaning or tone.”
Biographies
¨ Students
can transform their written biographies into compelling digital documentaries
that shows how the person's background influenced what they believed and how
they acted as well as the personal qualities that helped this person succeed.
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