After reading this article about “The Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling” by Bernard R. Robin, I have gained an abundance of knowledge around the importance of broadening ones teaching strategies within the classroom. Digital story telling is a great tool to use with students of any age as it is engaging, purposeful and most importantly a great way to appropriately use technology within the classroom. This article states that digital storytelling is combining art of telling stories in a way that can be highly engaging for students. Within these digital stories there is digital multimedia, such as images, audio and video. This ensures that the story is being visually displayed through graphics, text, recorded audio narration, video and music which presents information on a chosen specific topic. There are seven key elements of digital story telling which include a point of view, dramatic question, emotional content, your voice, a soundtrack, economy and pacing. In relation to this there are three major types of digital stories which include, personal narratives that discuss one’s life experiences, historical documentaries that deeply look into events of the past and informative/instructive stories that educate the viewer on a specific concept. I truly resonate with the importance of the seven key elements as well as the three major types of digital stories due to personal experiences.
Within my undergrad at Seneca College, I was asked to write and complete a personal narrative digital story. I believe that without all the seven key elements my personal narrative would have no been a successful one. I was asked to display emotion with my tone of voice, to use music that is relative to the content in my story and chose something that has hit home or really hit me hard in an emotion way and that is exactly what I did. I truly believe that within a classroom whether you are the teacher or the student, digital stories can be a great way to display or deliver information in the most purposeful and meaningful way. As a teacher I believe students may be more intrigued in what is being presented due to how a digital story presents the information. It is almost like a short clip, video or movie that is short sweet and to the point. I strongly agree with using digital stories as a beginning of a unit or lesson to capture student’s attention as well as intrigue them in exploring new concepts or ideas. This can also be useful when helping students to accommodate the previous knowledge with the new knowledge that is being presented to them. On the other hand, student may enjoy creating their own digital stories to show their ability to understand, grasp and show their understanding on knew concepts or knowledge. I believe in today’s society in order to keep students engaged they must be interested and fully intrigued by what is being taught.
Therefore, I believe that digital stories will help to assist educators in keep their students alert and fully engaged in lessons. Also, by allowing students to have the chance to write digital stories students will be able to enhance their literacy skills as well as research skills. For example, students will be able to improve their writing skills organization skills and their technology skills. This may further enhance student’s problem-solving skills, interpersonal skills and presentation skills. I believe that all these skills are necessary for students to learn and this is a great way for them to do so. Overall, I believe that both educators and students can highly benefit from creating or using digital stories and therefore can be something that is used more often within the education system.
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