Helps students retain knowledge longer. Researchers at Georgetown University discovered that the emotional aspect of telling stories improves learning because it helps students remember what they have learned.
• Enhances learning by encouraging students to communicate effectively. It also promotes classroom discussion, community awareness, global awareness, and a connection between what students do in the classroom and the wider community. Posting students’ digistory projects on class web sites or school portals reinforces these connections and improves communication.
• Helps students make a connection between what they learn in the classroom and what goes on outside of the classroom. Digistory projects are geared toward performance, a skill essential for success in the real world. They also lend themselves naturally to the form of many common public presentations, such as museum docent talks, photo essays, and documentary films, giving students practice in real-world skills.
• Encourages creativity, helping students open up new ways of thinking about and organizing material. This new medium promotes the development of multiple channel intelligence and communication, blending intellectual thought, research, emotion, and public communication.
• Works well with portfolio assessment. For expert advice on how to use electronic portfolios and digital storytelling for “lifelong and life-wide learning,” visit Dr. Helen Barrett’s web site.
• Promotes digital literacy. Becoming proficient in digital skills is fundamental to students’ success in the 21st century.
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