"Digital stories need to be used to strengthen students' critical thinking, report writing, and media literacy skills."
Digital storytelling supports learning in school because it allows students to think critically to design a story that not only incorporates education but their own opinions. It promotes healthy growth in student developments. It also allows students to form opinions and think critically about what they are researching. The digital storytelling professor from the reading said that he believed the focus should be the story, and not the digital media. I believe that one of the strongest element of digital storytelling is the media used. Many children tell stories all day long; stories of their families, pets, etc. However, teaching a child to put that story into pictures and digital stories is a real treasure. The reading stated that the purpose of digital storytelling was for the "students to develop the power of their own voices." Digital storytelling allows students to not only voice their opinions, but share their opinions and skills with the worldwide web.
Take this school, for example, in Kentucky. These students offer their opinions on multiple subjects via digital storytelling! I would definitely use this approach in my future classroom for all kinds of topics.This is a fantastic way to judge students' grasp on subjects and gain their opinions for everything.
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