Digital Storytelling in the classroom (2009)

In the latest years there is a clear trend towards creating richer educational opportunities for schools in order to increase children participation. Constructivism and technology represent an important combination to define innovative educational courses. Storytelling is the fundamental link to convey the use of technology in didactic paths purposely conceived and structured for children, exploiting their natural fondness for using elements of their everyday culture and communication. Starting from texts and stories, selected based on their age, children learn how to interpret and translate into images the content they wish to communicate, building the storyboard of their digital tale and using their creativity on texts, images and other components in order to realize a multimedia application

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