For this week's ICT class, we have discussed the importance of using digital storytelling inside the classroom. Digital storytelling is significant because it provides teachers with different resources to help teach a new lesson. With an increase in the use of technology inside the classroom, teachers should not be afraid to try it out and implement it in their lessons because it teaches the students the value of emotional rhetoric, allowing them to explore new ways of learning or acting differently.
What is Digital Storytelling?
According to the University of Woollongong website, "Digital Storytelling uses multimedia tools to bring narratives to life". Using Digital Storytelling can explain a concept, reflect on personal experience, retell a historical event, or make an argument. It is a video combined with audio, images and video clips to tell a story. In other words, it is a method of delivering information to the audience. It combines narrative and digital media content infused with multimedia elements.
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Why should you start using Digital Storytelling inside your classroom?
Digital storytelling should be used inside the classroom to move, enlighten, or entertain the audience. Stories are meant to attract lovers, calm children, and imagine a world beyond real life. Teachers should use digital storytelling to make abstract concepts real for students. With an increase in the use of technology, visual storytelling could be your student's next favourite classroom tool. According to the Edutopia.org website, Jennifer New argues that seven steps can help teacher's achieve success using digital storytelling:
Learn from what you watch
See technology as a storytelling tool, not as a teaching tool
Allow your students to push you (and lead you)
Learn by trial and error
Give your students freedom, but not hold them accountable
Consider yourself the executive producer
Don't forget to celebrate your students' work!
These seven steps are crucial because they are strong lessons that can give a teacher the courage to try them out inside the classroom. In my own point of view, digital storytelling is necessary inside the classroom because it opens a world beyond the classroom. It helps students who struggle with reading a book or a student who cannot read properly yet. Digital storytelling offers a different method that can help these students learn using a very valuable resource. With an increase in different apps, it is necessary that we try to learn by trial and error. In my last placement, I struggled with trying out new applications because I was scared to fail or try. The message from the website is very valuable because for us to properly learn the app, it is crucial that we try out the different features that it offers. Once you have figured it out, don't forget to enjoy your students' work!
How to use Tiktok as a form of Digital Storytelling inside the classroom?
According to statistics, there are about 1 billion people using Tiktok as their go-to app. Since it is available in over 150 countries and has been downloaded over 200 million times in the United States (Wallaroo Media Website). As an aspiring educator, it makes you wonder how many of them are students? How many of them are using Tiktok the right way? Are there any students getting exposed to the darker side of Tiktok? These questions will continue to come up as the app continues to gain popularity. I believe that Tiktok can be used the right way if teachers teach them the meaning of Digital Literacy. Before using any form of technology inside the classroom, Digital literacy should be integrated into the lesson. It will remind the students that it is necessary to remain safe with their online identities and protect them at all costs.
By using Tiktok in the classroom, students can enjoy the app while learning. Teach a topic and then have students create videos that compare and contrast the points made. This allows the information to sink in while also letting them explore the various sides to the point. Students will learn how to make videos and use and examine all of the features that Tiktok can offer. Teachers can use Tiktok to tell a lesson story. This will keep the students engaged and excited to learn!
That is all for today! Thanks for reading! :)
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