Digital Video and Storytelling in Education

Task A What role does digital storytelling play? Is it a resource or an activity, or something else? Digital storytelling is the culmination of the fusion of traditional storytelling with modern technology. In education, its purpose is to stimulate students to create their own videos using research and personal experience. It serves as a reflection of their knowledge and ideas and when effectively used highly engages students and the audience on the topic. It is an activity that requires students to research, select resources, develop multimedia skills, and involves collaboration and presentation. Furthermore, it causes students to select resources, but is not a resource in itself for the developer of the story. In fact, digital storytelling only acts as a resource for the audience to whom the story is being presented to. Therefore, it can be concluded that in principle, digital storytelling is an activity. Task B Look at the video development process. Now, thin...

Task A Write a short reflection about why learning theories are important for educational designers? Learning theories provide educators with information that is fundamental in developing successful learning designs, as the ultimate aim of an educator is to ensure effective learning and retention of information. The learning theories provide educators with a framework to evaluate: learners’ capacity to learn, the teaching approach to be adapted, and circumstantial influences within the learning environment. This information provides a deep insight into the learner’s mindset and can then be incorporated to create an extremely effective learning design. For example, age is an important factor – it is a basic indicator of maturity and intelligence. This also enables a designer to create a curriculum in which the general responses, interactions, and behavior patterns can be anticipated to a certain degree. Moreover, a designer can select or combine elements from the theories of b...