1. Digital Storytelling

2. Why bother?

3. Don’t we have enough to do?

4. Reason #1

5. We learn through story.

6. Humans are not ideally set up to understand logic; they are ideally set up to understand stories. Roger C. Schank Cognitive scientist

7. But we’ve always known this.

8. Reason #2

9. We learn by telling stories.

10. Learning is remembering.

11. We remember things that…

12. Make sense to us

13. Have meaning to us

14. Are personally significant to us

15. Have emotional impact to us.

16. In other words…

17. We remember our stories.

18. Yeah, but

19. Why DIGITAL stories?

20. And we remember 50% more if images are added.

21. Images and digital stories go together like…

23. AND to learn anything we need to first pay attention.

24. But we don’t pay attention to boring things.

25. For kids born in the 21st century

26. Some of our stories are pretty boring.

27. Kids are wired for speed and novelty.

28. And if we don’t get their attention…

29. We won’t bridge them to deeper learning.

30. Yeah, but…

31. The computers in my classroom are old.

32. The computer lab is always booked.

33. And I don’t have time to learn these new programs.

34. True, but…

35. If we believe it will improve learning

36. We’ll find a way. In fact…

37. Stay tuned for the next slide show.

38. 25 ways to use digital tools in your classroom even when you have lousy computers.

39. Which we’ll write together. Send me your ideas and examples:sbeleznay@sd68.bc.ca