A List of The Best Free Digital Storytelling Tools for Teachers.
Here some of the pluses of digital storytelling in education :
- It develops creativity and critical thinking Students who are shy or afraid to talk in class get a chance to speak out their minds
- It empowers students voice to deliver rich, deep message that is capable of conveying a powerful message.
- It helps students explore the meaning of their own experience, give value to it, and communicate that experience with others.
- It promotes the notions of life long learning and independent learning
- It develops students communicative skills It is a reflective process that helps students reflect upon their learning and find deep connections with the subject matter of a course or with an out-of-class experience.
- It fosters students sense of individuality It also gives students an opportunity to experiment with self-representation and establish their identityStudents creating digital stories develop proficiency with multimedia applications
Via Gust MEES
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Check also:
Creativity
- http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching?tag=Creativity
Critical Thinking
- http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching?tag=Critical-Thinking
Story Telling
- http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-learning-and-teaching?tag=Storytelling
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