Year: 2024 | Month: December | Volume 15 | Issue 2
Digital Storytelling (DST) as an Innovative Pedagogy: A Relevant Teaching Method for 21st Century Educators
Nishi Gupta* and Niradhar Dey
DOI:10.30954/2231-458X.02.2024.1
Abstract:
21st century educators think that technology can be a useful tool for teaching the next generation and makes learning objectives easier to accomplish. Storytelling as a method has been used widely in teaching different subjects. In the era of digital education and catering to 21st century skills, information communication technologies are prominently used in the teaching-learning process. The transformation form of storytelling by using digital technology is the Digital Storytelling (DST). Digital storytelling is the process of using computer-based technologies to share the stories to others. It is similar to traditional storytelling where the stories used to be narrated to the audience and it is for the students in the teaching-learning process. The difference is that DST uses some images, audio narration, video clips, animations and transitions to create the story in a creative manner and share it with the audience digitally. The majority of stories used in education usually range from two and ten minutes, while digital stories can vary in duration. It has been widely used to teach the students in schools and also used as an innovative pedagogic method in different teacher preparation programmes. The present article critically articulates to understand the concept of DST, its processes to develop a digital story, and also exemplifies how to implement DST to address some exemplar topics from different subjects. The article also equally elaborates the implications of digital storytelling for the teachers and also to prepare the teacher educators
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