Refection on digital story telling

Calvin Kao
After watching Anikas video, the frst thing comes in my mind is a
question that how long does Anika need to make that video, and
how much information can be delivered eectively! "oes it worth on
classroom teaching!
#hen digital story telling is a$$lied in education, students become
active creators rather than $assive consumers of multimedia %&hler,
'(()*+ ,rom my e-$erience, . agree on that multimedia do more
attractive than $lainte-t or $lain audio+ .f . make a notes with full
te-t, only '(/ of student $ay attention+ .f . $lay boring videos , )(/
of students $ay attention+ .f there is more colors and musics, nearly
0(/ of students $ay attentions, but half of them forget the content+
1efore that, . have never imagined that making video can be a kind
of learning activities+ . search some literatures, besides in terms of
interesting, one of them says 2"igital story telling facilitates the
convergence of four student3centered learning strategies4 student
engagement, refection for dee$ learning, $ro5ect3based learning
and the eective integration of technology into instruction6
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future, . would try to ado$t this kind of activity in my lessons,
es$ecially on some boring to$ics+
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8elen C+ 1arrett, '((), Reseraching and Evaluating Digital
Storytelling as a Deep Learning Tool, page 1, 9he R:;:C9 .nitiative,
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